Tangents

(and yes, they're a real team)

Thanks to lomedet's rec, I gobbled up most of the Superstition hockey RPF series while on vacation last week, and have not only dipped back into it daily since then, but also scrolled through the author's entire series-related tumblr to catch bonus snippets. (Although I will confess to skipping 1.5 episodes about a supporting character whose traumatic past I don't have the emotional bandwidth for.)

I found it very, very funny and compellingly sexy/romantic in numerous spots. It hits my competency kink buttons, and my "So many ways love has" theology, with discussions about bjs that invoke "messy stats," and raunchy women rugby players, and Quebecois-Swedish swearing, and a bisexual protagonist who's Hall of Fame dudebro-jock from helmet to blade, and yet also particular about his tea (and well, yeah, a lot of other things, and do I relate to "intense enough to be perceived as incredible -- and also intense enough to be incredibly stupid embarrassingly often about how other people roll"? Um, yeah...), and believably feminist, even before but especially after he hooks up with a houseful of hippie surfers.

( spoilery choice bits under the cut )

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Because of pesky logistical challenges such as limited days off and mortgages to pay, another summer will likely go by without me getting myself to the Stratford Festival, even though the poster and headshot for Macbeth had me paying attention (not so much the side shot of the couple -- what a difference angles and lighting make), and even though I would really like to see A Little Night Music live (and performing it is also on the "maybe someday" list. World enough and time, verse the forty-first...).

The festival is also producing an adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I like the glimpse of the lion in their teaser and am intrigued by how Tom McCamus will play him.

Coincidentally, I came across

I am catching up on last Friday's NYT over breakfast. It doesn't mean anything, but I am nonetheless amused that the obituaries for Murray Lender (of Lender's Bagels fame) and Samuel Glazer (a co-creator of Mr. Coffee) are side by side on page B13.

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Lori-Lyn Hurley is welcoming submissions to Spirit Voyage; the theme is "birth, nurture, and the Divine Feminine" and she's seeking "poetry, prose, visual artwork, or works that defy genre." The deadline is March 31.

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Nathalie Boisard-Beudin: Things you do not expect to find in a cemetery

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