Starting my Sunday in a good mood because...

1.) Recently I saw a screencap from the s5/32 Doctor Who finale which pointed out something that had escaped me till then (haven't rewatched s5 yet) - Rory is holding Amy's shoes while they're dancing. Any woman who has ever worn high heel shoes for an entire evening knows that this by itself makes Rory the most considerate of heroes and husbands. It doesn't quite dethrone Rhys holding Gwen's bag so her trigger finger is free and she can shoot in my personal Top Ten Favourite Whoverse Couple Moments, but it's certainly up there.

2.) Speaking of adorable men: so, Oscar night. You know, the real reason why I'm rooting for Colin Firth isn't that he gave an amazing performance in The King's Speech (which he did), and it certainly isn't his long ago stint as Mr. Darcy (I like the that particular tv version of Pride and Prejudice just fine, but my favourite screen Austen will always bee the Ang Lee/Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility, and if I swoon over any actor playing an Austen male, it's Alan Rickman). No, the real reason why I shall sit in front of my t screen and behave like an American cheerleader, shouting "go, Colin, go!" is the following interview excerpt:

Colin: [on Mamma Mia] I think it’s one of the best things I have ever done. People expect me to apologize for it and I am completely unapologetic. Right now I would say, if you asked me the three things for which I am most proud I would say it is A Single Man, The King’s Speech and Mamma Mia.
Interviewer: How hard was it to get you to do the scene that’s used for the closing credits?
Colin: You know what, that may be the reason I did the movie.
Interviewer: You have no shame.
Colin: Yes. I’m sorry, if one thing has come out of 60 Minutes is that we have discovered, we’ve unveiled the fact that Colin Firth has no shame. I am such a drag queen. It’s one of my primary driving forces in life. You cannot dangle a spandex suit and a little bit of mascara in front of me and not just have me go weak at the knees.

(If you're not familiar with the glorious spectacle he and the interviewer are referring to, you can watch it on YouTube.)

3.) RPF, Procopius and me: really interesting essay discussing real people fiction, historical (mixed with fantasy frame work) fiction and indeed a historian who wrote two very different versions of his contemporary emperor's life. It's a subject for which I think there are only individual answers and boundaries, no general ones, so I'm always intrigued to read intelligent meta on it.

Hair! 70s! Horror! Poll!

Yet another Eureka moment of the silly kind! Now, obviously the 70s must have been a hard era for Beatles fans to live through because of the breakup aftermath, split fannish loyalties, musical feuds etc., but one fannish trauma has not yet been suitably explored, to wit, the mystery of how three attractive men could inflict some truly ghastly looks on themselves. (I say three because Ringo, bless him, simply went back to the look he had pre-Beatles and stuck with it. It suits him.) Thankfully, this was only the case for brief periods, but still. There were photos. And we're all still dealing with the shock. In order to do just that, I decided to create a poll asking you, faithful readers, to choose the ghastliest look worn by a former Beatle in the 70s. Of course, I would not ask you to make such a choice uninformed. Below the cut is the evidence of guilt in its full 70s, perm, mullet, pornstache, beardy glory.

( George )

( Paul )

( John )

Poll #6125 Tell Me Why

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The worst hair style worn by a former Beatle in the 70s is...

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George's perm and mustache extravaganza
5 (26.3%)

Paul's mullet and mustache horror
12 (63.2%)

John's wannabe guerilla beard
3 (15.8%)

you forgot the WORST, which I shall demonstrate in a comment
0 (0.0%)