Stalking

[lizbee]

If you search "Frema Agyeman", which is Freema's birth name (changed professionally to avoid pronunciation confusion) in Google, you end up with links to Facebook accounts and the London Black Professionals Group.

Since I'm not actually stalking her, I took it no further, but I was ... curiously amused to find the extra results.  I guess it's like looking up Lalla Ward in Debrett's Peerage.  (Oh, don't look at me like that, of course I was going to.  It's not like I made a special trip into the library or anything...)

It is a perfectly lovely afternoon of slack.  I am drinking wine and hanging out with suburbannoir, whose post-"Revelations" (BSG) vid you should all watch and comment on because it is HILARIOUS, and watching old Billie Piper music videos.  I have this vague memory of promising nostalgia_lj that if season 4 ends with Rose and the Doctor marrying and going off into the sunset to be domestic, I'd post a video of myself doing the "Because We Want To" dance to YouTube.  suburbannoir says she'll do the same if the Doctor mentions unlimited rice pudding during the finale.  It's not that I feel we need to learn the dance or anything, I just like the video.  SHUT UP I AM LAME.

I am currently reading Bareback by Kit Whitfield.  Whitfield, under the nom "Praline", is a reglar commenter at Slacktivist.  Her book got uniformly positive remarks from the other commenters, who don't strike me as the types to give insincere compliments, so I decided to find the book.  Actually, I was about to order it when I found it in a remainder bin.  It's a legal thriller about werewolves.  In a world much like our own, except that the majority of the human race are werewolves -- in fact, there is some debate as to whether non-lycos should even be called "human" at all.  I'm not remotely interested in the vampire/werewolf subgenre of fantasy, but I'm really glad I overcame my prejudices and picked this up.  The worldbuilding is brilliant and plausible, and it's nothing at all like the supernatural romances I've read, or tried to read.  I'm only halfway through, but I'm totally sucked in.  There is a mystery, and a romance, and a cranky heroine who is stuck in a bad situation with only her average skills, more-than-average tenacity and powerful desire not to screw up to guide her.

suburbannoir says that if the tenth Doctor regenerates into Jack Davenport, we'll be making piecesofalice do the "Because We Want To" dance.  And she's a much better dancer than us, and, for example, still remembers 5ive dances from 1998.  Fingers crossed.

Comments

[binka-boo.livejournal.com]

your squid is half finished! i should have him done by the weekend. are you free at all to catch up? maybe you want to come over and meet les kittehs before i have to move?

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

WOES! I shall be in Brisbane this weekend, my brother and my other best friend melwil are getting married (ON THE SAME DAY, CAN YOU BELIEVE?!). Maybe next weekend? I'd love to meet the kittehs.

[rimwalker.livejournal.com]

Because I have no shame, I clicked on the Facebook profile. It isn't "our" Frema. It is, amazingly enough, another Frema Agyemon.

I don't have a Facebook account but I can tell because this other Frema posts a public picture:



I'm being creepy so you don't have to!

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

But ... what are the odds?

*is terribly disappointed*

[rimwalker.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is a ruse! To fake out creepy stalker people on the internet?

I've heard that sometimes, the Internets are not always safe... ...for young ladies.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I ... don't actually think I want to think about whether or not it's a ruse. Because if it was actually Freema, and she was keeping it quiet, then I'd want to respect that. And if it's not Freema, I don't want to be creepy.

I know Freema had a MySpace page, but she took it down shortly after her casting was announced. Something about creepy men being weird at her.

[kerravonsen]

For a moment there, I thought that your brother was getting married to melwil.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

...If they are, it's news to me. And to their partners, as well.

Still, it'll save me a trip across town.

[gryffinclaw.livejournal.com]

LOL I would LOVE to see you dancing around!!

[binka-boo.livejournal.com]

next weekend shall suffice!
mind you, i'm hoping i don't have to move too far away..
there's a place across the road i have my fingers crossed for!
(so yeah if you see any 1 b/r for rent signs out the front of places, let me know XD)

[iko.livejournal.com]

if season 4 ends with Rose and the Doctor marrying and going off into the sunset to be domestic, I'd post a video of myself doing the "Because We Want To" dance to YouTube

Oh gosh, this is tempting me to wish for it. Hee!

[kitttherug.livejournal.com]

If that happens, I reckon all your readers should do it. Then someone could do a post with links to all of the videos and we could all get wierded out by everyone doing the "Because We Want To" dance. Like some sort of big strange Whovian solidarity thing.

This has nothing to do with this post at all, but I found a blog post with a pretty transparent glowing squid, and immediately though of you. (Is that a good thing or not? I'm not sure.) So I thought I'd tell you where it is.

http://duoquartuncia.blogspot.com/2008/06/because-it-is-beautiful.html

[taraljc.livejournal.com]

if the tenth Doctor regenerates into Jack Davenport

If this happens, I might actually implode with joy on the spot.

ETA: not becasue I don't love DT, I do. But OMG if we have to lose DT (which, boviously, we do someday) JACK DAVENPROT FOR THE WIN.

Alas, he has been stoled by Los Angeles.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

I'd be totally in favour of Jack Davenport as the Eleventh Doctor!

[melengro.livejournal.com]

I guess it's like looking up Lalla Ward in Debrett's Peerage. (Oh, don't look at me like that, of course I was going to. It's not like I made a special trip into the library or anything...)

WHAT DID YOU FIND OUT? ANYTHING INTERESTING?

It's a legal thriller about werewolves. In a world much like our own, except that the majority of the human race are werewolves -- in fact, there is some debate as to whether non-lycos should even be called "human" at all. I'm not remotely interested in the vampire/werewolf subgenre of fantasy, but I'm really glad I overcame my prejudices and picked this up.

I don't like 'traditional' vampires and werewolves (the Rice/Meyer set) but I do like traditional vampires and werewolves (as in actually traditional, derived directly from the real Eastern European legends; the original Dracula, for instance). And the Our-Vampires-And-Werewolves-Are-Different sub-subgenre can be done well (Shingetsutan Tsukihime, The Curse of Fenric, that time Stephen King, whom I'm required to love by reason of Being From New England, did them). Actually, I'm not sure that some of these should be considered 'vampires' and 'werewolves' at all--Tsukihime and the Nasuverse in general feature such things as crow-man-things, quantum vampires that don't actually exist, a padlock...

The worldbuilding is brilliant and plausible, and it's nothing at all like the supernatural romances I've read, or tried to read. I'm only halfway through, but I'm totally sucked in. There is a mystery, and a romance, and a cranky heroine who is stuck in a bad situation with only her average skills, more-than-average tenacity and powerful desire not to screw up to guide her.

So the heroine's a bit like a ninety-eight-per-cent less annoying and useless Bella Swann?

[infiniteviking]

A legal thriller about werewolves with brilliant, plausible worldbuilding??? *snatches*

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I just finished it this morning. The pacing falls apart to an extent in the conclusion, but emotionally it is devastating and brilliant, and you can't actually argue that the truth wasn't foreshadowed. I'd recommend it to anyone. The American edition is actually called Benighted, if that's any help.