Are you gonna play with me?

[exsequar]

Things wot are awesome:

• This montage of Topher being... well, Topher:
  
  
  
• Amy Gumenick is filming her lead guest role on Castle right now! For those who don't know, she played Mary on Supernatural and she's such a doll.
  Awww, they look so sad! *draws hearts* Can't wait for the episode. :D
  
• This post from Jezebel: A Gallery of Extremely Handsome British Men. The post itself is kind of lacking, but the comments are gold. Damian Lewis! Ewan McGregor! Matthew Goode! David Tennant! Jamie Bamber! Yessss. ♥ (Obviously, Scotsmen are not British, though they do live in the United Kingdom. However, Irish I will not tolerate being called British. Just sayin!)
  
• I just made this because it needed to be made. Every time I feel whiny about the Michigan winter weather, I visualize this:
  Because seriously. Whether my legs are burning from cold or not, I have a warm home to go to and a down jacket to wear. I'm not sleeping in a hole in the ground in the coldest winter in Belgian history for a month. I may never whine about the cold again.
  
• STARK SANDS HAS A LEADING ROLE IN THE BROADWAY PRODUCTION OF AMERICAN IDIOT. :DDDDDDD I haven't even watched all of Gen Kill but already I LOVE Stark and his face. I was wishing that I could get to see American Idiot anyway, but now I'm talking about road tripping to NYC for this shit with my Chicago crew. MFY.
  
• I get to see Gold Motel with angel726 this weekend!! :DDDDD
  
• Tomorrow my darling Steffen is making dinner for me and Kate and Francisco. I'm SO excited. Kate's making dessert too! I love those three fools beyond all reason. I've realized that they perfectly parallel my three besties from Ireland - two boys and a gal - and I feel the same kind of comfort and joy around them. I am so grateful to have found that - within a 14 person program to boot! Every day I have to restrain the urge to just hug them and tell them how much I love them. ♥
  
• I don't have to make a presentation for class tonight! WOOOOO! I have had to make two a week for the past three weeks and it got a little old. :P Instead I'm drinking whiskey and cranberry, putting together a Liebgott spam (keep an eye out for that!), and considering watching Life or Southland or GenKill or Friday Night Lights or just anything. (Maybe Band of Brothers? TELL ME YOU'RE SHOCKED.) Too much awesome TV! <33
  
• Speaking of TV, my thoughts: The latest Bones was SO FRICKIN WONDERFUL. Angela and Hodgins! ♥____♥ White Collar has pretty much redeemed itself to me, thankfully, so I can just enjoy the OT3 pretty. Castle is still perfect all the goddamn time - ugh, SO MUCH LOVE. Friday Night Lights, while lacking a bit of the old resonance while they're trying to develop new characters, continues to be riveting and beautiful television. I love that Timmy's still around, as he and Coach and Tami pretty much make everything worth it. Dollhouse ends tomorrow - I'm heartbroken and resigned, but excited to see what Joss has whipped up. Leverage has been okay - the new gal is fine, but the latest two plots have seemed too hokey for me. I never say no to shirtless Hardison though. ♥ And I... still haven't watched last week's Supernatural. Maybe I should get on that, huh?

And that's that! There are some things that are un-awesome - what the fuck do I do about Dave? - but I'm going to let this post stand on its own and let you just roll around in the AWESOME. And don't forget - lotsa Lieb sooon! :D

How are you my dears? ♥

Comments

[angel726.livejournal.com]

- Tophhhhherrrrr! I don't even know what episode some of those quotes are from! I am bad at that sort of thing though.

- GRETAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ♥ ♥ ♥

- shirtless Hodgins! I still need to watch this week's white collar. Also the last two weeks worth of Dollhouse. Ooops.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Oh, hahaha! I meant to say shirtless HARDISON! I mean, obviously I love shirtless Hodgins so much that my subconscious makes me type it by accident, but the recent show is shirtless Hardison. Om nom! :D

[hebrew-hernia.livejournal.com]

I watched the Southland pilot and it was really good but SUPER INTENSE. But I mean, you just watched BOB, so obvi you can handle intense.

P.S. MAN REACTION.

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

I've seen the first 20 minutes of Southland or so, and you're right, it is intense! I think I'll need to be less stressed before I can really watch it. But you're right, I think I can handle it - though the mean streets of LA are very very different from the almost romantic distance of Europe in WWII.

MAN REACTION. Topherrr <3333

[trinity_clare]

For a second I was like "...no, Samantha Smith played Mary" and then I realized Amy played the young version. *facepalm*

[insunshine.livejournal.com]

That dress is gorgeous! ♥

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Err, what dress? haha

[insunshine.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! Sometimes I speak without mentioning context. The dress Angela was wearing in that episode of Bones. She always looks lovely, but man, sometimes her outfits just blow me away.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

...at least you're not in Bastogne. Yes, that is a phrase for the ages.

[thediane.livejournal.com]

Dollhouse, Bones and White Collar are pretty much rocking my world right now. Loving it all sososo much! Also, I'm so jealous that you get to go see Gold Motel...GRETA *____*


On a random note, I always think it's so funny when people know who Amy Gumenick is because she graduated a year ahead of me in college and my roomie is really good friends with her haha.

[maryangel200.livejournal.com]

&Topher;
I will miss him. I needs and entire show to himself.

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

♥___♥ TOPHERRRRRRRRRRRRR

(PS you do realise that Scotsmen are British, right? English, Welsh, Scottish and N.Irish people are all British too. As well as their individual nationalities)

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I messed it up again! I get soooo confused. My logic was that... the UK has Scotland, Wales, and Britain? But actually the whole thing's Great Britain? Is there a difference between the UK and Great Britain at this point? I get so effing confused. :( I do know the Irish aren't British though! I know that much!

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

It totally is a confusing thing- I've lived here for more than a decade now and sometimes it makes me stop and think but I've had it drilled into me so often that I think I have it mostly straight.

Basically, the British Isles include the landmass that is England, Wales and Scotland, and Ireland. Obviously you know that southern Ireland is a completely separate country (which is more than 99% of the world it seems!) but the rest- England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland constitute the UK, which is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which means they're all British citizens. By law, N.Irish people are both British and Irish citizens and generally choose which one to identify themselves by, but they are British.

The simplest explanation is if you're born or naturalised to England, Scotland, Wales or N.Ireland you're a British citizen, but you're also English or Scottish or Welsh or Irish. Apart from England, they have their own separate parliaments, but are all represented in Westminster as part of the UK. I guess, in American terms it's like, you're American. But you're also from whichever-state-you-were-born-in, if that makes sense?

The thing I find important to remember is that if you refer to Ewan McGreggor as Scottish and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Welsh and James Nesbitt as Irish, you need to refer to Joseph Fiennes as English (when often English people get just called British which makes them frown a lot), but collectively you can call thenm British (unless they've stated they solely see themselves as X nationality).

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

Ahhhhhhh. So I'm a Connecticutian (we need an actual label, lol) but I'm also an American! Just like Ewan's Scottish but also British! Gotcha! And that distinguishing between British and English is very helpful - I think that's the distinction I was going for. Thanks very much for clarifying hon! I should probably have all this straight if I hope to live there one day. :)

[bluejbird.livejournal.com]

Exactly! It's a totally confusing system they have here! And it's going to get so much more confusing when inevitably the whole of Europe merges a la the US and people start referring to themselves as Scottish and British and European (which, at the moment, its generally wise not to refer to a British person as European because they will stare at you blankly and then say 'But Britain's not in Europe!' and then in the next breath insist that NZ is pretty much a part of Oz. And then I stab them. But that's a criminal confession for another day).

[pau494.livejournal.com]

TOPHERRR!!! Oh god, I'm going to miss him. ;___; I can't believe the show's ending tomorrow. HOLD ME.

Oooh, Greta! ♥___♥ Have fuuun!

Have a great time at dinner with your friends, darling. I'm happy that you've found them!

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