To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive

One day, I'll talk of something else. But it's vacation until the second week of January, so it may be a while.

( mild spoilers )

Googling for other Cupid news led me to the factoid that Hart Hanson (aka the creator of Bones) wrote for the original series (specifically, the Lisa Loeb episode and the one with the twin kids).

...Suddenly I see Booth & Brennan in a whole new light.

I believe this was S3, episodes 4-7.

( short comments )

Got my final disc of S2 Bones today, which only includes one episode before hitting the special features.

( 'Stargazer in a Puddle' )

Is Hart Hanson Canadian? There was definitely an "oot" in the special features. It would go far toward explaining the suspicious Fraseriness and RayVness of B&B....

( Disc 5 )

This show brings out my capslock and italics in so many flavors. Hmm.

So I was thinking about how this show is apparently into symbolic names--"Joy" becoming "Temperance," and the joyful baby exuberance becoming the cool calmness of our favorite anthropologist; Dr. Good Man--and suddenly wondered if they're attempting to imply something with "Sully." 'Cause that would be kind of sad. He didn't sully anyone!

(Of course, I could be barking up the wrong tree. If we applied this same kind of interpretation to Seeley Booth's name, all we'd get is mattresses and diners, or possibly telephones, only one of which might in any way reflect on his character. And the others don't really lend themselves to that kind of analysis either, unless one were to make a math connection with Zack Addy.)

(Oh, and this reminds me of another question: how did Brennan's parents get around the whole the-extended-family-would-NOT-be-named-Brennan thing? Insist that both parents were only children and all the grandparents were dead? Were other Keenan folks criminals as well? Argh, show, your logic holes could have trucks driven through them.)

Also, I keep trying to make some kind of connection between Brennan and Book Two of The Faerie Queene, which is the book about Guyon, Knight of Temperance. Buuut I have a feeling Hart Hanson & Co. would not have a clue what I'm talking about, so never mind. (Although if someone wanted to do a reinterpretation of the Bower of Blisse, that would be both awesome and hilarious. There's a lot of violent crime in that book they could draw from for plots, actually...)

...Okay, I have obviously been working on my paper for way. too. long. (Three pages, though!) I'm going to bed.

My first disc of Bones S2 came today. Reactions: ( I guess I'll start cutting on the off chance someone reading this might want to get into the show and not be spoiled )

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Finally getting around to answering the icon meme from spleeny!


You have to love Rebecca Fogg's versatile hoop skirt frame that becomes a ladder. You just have to. (Best Victorian spy ever!)


I took the original picture of these canal boats on the Oxford Canal in May 2005, then jazzed it up in Photoshop. I think a week or two on a canal boat, wandering the waterways of England, would be an awesome way to spend some vacation and a large sum of money. (Apparently there are people who live on them full time. I don't think I could do that, but vacation...yes.)


This awesome screencap is from a Northern Exposure episode where Chris really, seriously lights up the darkness. For the whole scene, I direct you to YouTube.


This is one of Joel Anderson's Spirit of Nashville vintage-style prints. I wanted an icon for Nashville-specific posts and comments, and I adore that particular almost art deco style.


From the last episode of Due South. They put a dog in a parachute, y'all. It was funny.

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Wanda taking a picture on Corner Gas. In theory, it's to be used for photo posts and such, but since I've been such a slacker at taking pictures lately, I've been using it mainly for CG-related stuff.