Spring is in full bloom, which means cherry blossoms and Remix

[bironic]

perspi clued me in that Remix Madness is happening again this year -- an opt-in, no-obligation, week-to-write-it accompaniment to the main Remix challenge where you can remix the fic of anyone who's signed up (assuming you have signed up as well) regardless of whether you are participating in Remix proper. I've offered my stories for remixing (comments page 7). Lord knows whether I can wring out a fic by next Monday, but I'm having a good time picking through other people's sign-ups and brainstorming.

Life lately:

(1) Hosted synn for a day of wandering around the annual Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom street festival, snacking on sushi and soba and mochi, sipping bubble tea -- well, bubble slushies; there was no tea -- and perusing various craft booths. A favorite was http://www.stuffedsushi.com/ with its salmon roll pillows and Team Tesla t-shirts. Then we enjoyed a few temporary exhibits at the natural history museum, such as the fish x-rays room, a mix of art and science from the Smithsonian's fish library (because saying "fish library" or "fish pickles," i.e. fish preserved in formaldehyde, will never stop being funny), and the Nature's Best Photography gallery, which made us wonder more than once why some shots earned Grand Prize or Winner status while other Highly Honored shots held us more in thrall; see for example our favorite, the shallow-depth-of-field green snake photo all the way on the right in the Flash gallery at the link above. Also we had a tasty Ethiopian veggie sampler and enjoyed Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. heavily flirting on a rerun of the Graham Norton Show (starts at about 17:30, but hey, Eddie Izzard before that).

(2) Have watched a season and a half of Battlestar Galactica. Am enjoying it as much as I anticipated, which is to say very much, helped by having remained unspoiled for almost everything, but I wasn't expecting the onslaught of religious themes. I am told it'd be best to quit after season two, but I probably won't have the willpower to look away until I'm as mad as everyone else at whatever happens after that.

(3) Was there anything else? Going to see The Hunger Games this week with a coworker and celebrate National Grilled Cheese Month at dinner beforehand. Weather is beautiful. Allergies suck when they strike. Daffodils are pretty? So is Katee Sackhoff? (I get it now. I totally do.)

Comments

[kassrachel.livejournal.com]

I managed to enjoy the whole run of BSG! It's a fabulous universe with incredibly compelling characters. Yes, they made some odd decisions toward the end there, but I can hand wave that; there's so much to enjoy. I'm glad you're digging it.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I hope it continues! I guess we'll start to see in season three.

[mific.livejournal.com]

OMG - and that shot of Jude Law in drag! Wow.
And - what? Holmes pushed Mary out the window? Did fandom write the whole script?

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

what? Holmes pushed Mary out the window? Did fandom write the whole script?

Quite possibly. More than one reviewer called it a big budget slash film.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I pulled it up on Google Images afterwards and stared at it for more minutes than I will admit to.

Haven't seen the new (ha, "new") Holmes movie yet, but it sure sounds like it. Now we just need to hold out for the time when slashy subtext-flirting-with-becoming-text in major motion pictures turns into moments where seeming-subtext-becomes-text-yay!

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

There's a whole month for grilled cheese? My jaw just dropped. I need to make a grilled cheese sandwich now.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

All I can say is it's a really good thing it's not just a week, because if it had fallen over Passover I would have been distraught. Distraught.