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Saturday, April 21. 2012 Friday, April 13. 2012  today i received an email from the admins that they are going to shut down 1on in two weeks. so from here on out, i'll be busy saving my data instead of producing new one. thanks to everyone who has read and commented over the years. it was fun, while it lasted.Tuesday, April 3. 2012  it's not yet 7.30 in the morning and i just pushed a batch of brownies in the oven. i have a baking reputation to lose if i don't make up for the lacklustre reception of the savouriy short cakes from last week. so my heavy duty brownies it is then. death. by. chocolate! do your magic!!!
Sunday, April 1. 2012  or: the bit of the bunch of flowers in the vase that has survived the feline onslaught. after a week stuck in the vase, the buds have finally opened up. now all that's left for easter is the cherry blossoms to come out, too.
Continue reading "blueberry blossoms" Saturday, March 31. 2012 the joys of listening to independent local radio stationsPosted by rita in culture is ordinaryComments (0) | Trackbacks (0)  the programme switched in the last hour from classical music to grind core, but not without forgetting to squeeze in german lady rap. i love this radio station! and right now they are elaborating on the etymology of 'fuck'. and it's not even 10 pm.
Friday, March 30. 2012  after having stumbled across a blog on the topic a while back, i had started to watch a couple of films in b&w instead of their intended techinicolor in order to see whether the author was right and there are indeed a number of films that would have actually been better had they been intended as b&w films. one of these examples in case is cabaret (1972) by bob fosse. it's remarkable just how much better and much more dramatic it looks with the colour switched off. all of a sudden, the film is acquiring an almost documentary-style kind of look and also shows off the marvelous lighting used on the sets. it's absolutely mind-blowing. but see for yourselves.
Continue reading "cabaret (1972)" Wednesday, March 28. 2012 three guesses who'll be presenting a paper in st andrews this augustPosted by rita in nur soComments (0) | Trackbacks (0) 
Wednesday, March 28. 2012 elementary sherlocking: 'the three gables' (1926)Posted by rita in culture is ordinaryComments (3) | Trackbacks (0)  as of late, i've been running behind my self-imposed reading schedule once again and the head start is once more dropping away as i'm writing up these reviews. i'm only about a handful of stories short from having read through the entire canon. and currently that jane austen woman is keeping me busy with her most wondrous tale about the dashwood sisters. but once that novel is finished in a few days, i'll return to the holmesverse so that this project will see more than just the light at the end of the tunnel. so without further ado, let's have a look at that house with the three gables.
Continue reading "elementary sherlocking: 'the three gables' (1926)" Tuesday, March 27. 2012 a voice of cream and honey -- and boozePosted by rita in culture is ordinaryComments (0) | Trackbacks (0)  find behind the cut a delightful interview that young master o'toole gave to the beeb in 1960 -- before he went off to the jordanian desert to ride his camel gladys for the next two years and emerge on the other side of that project covered in dust but world famous. he may have been only 28 years old at that point, but you can already hear his great talent with words which he proved much later in his two autobiographies. he's one of those guys who'd be able to read the phonebook of greater london, the only problem is, though, that you'd have a difficult time sitting through it because the voice is so soothing.
Continue reading "a voice of cream and honey -- and booze" Sunday, March 25. 2012
Continue reading "cherry short cakes with chocolate glazing" Sunday, March 25. 2012  it's sunday. before i return to yet another fabulous amy dillwyn novel, there be cat pictures. perhaps i should put these on the adverts for the room i've been advertising to let for the past three weeks. spots of light generate cats. perhaps spots of cats generate new flatmates...
Continue reading "cat content" Saturday, March 24. 2012  birds are calling. skunks are crawling... well, maybe not the latter, granted this is central europe. but spring is here no less and i took the camera for a first outing around the park -- and later on joined kati and her parents for the official annual commencement of the barbeque season in their garden. now all that's left is for the temperatures to pick up some more. but let's not rush it and just enjoy the first sunshine that's drawing all the people from their wintry hiding holes.Continue reading "sprrrring is here" Saturday, March 24. 2012 i just poked myself in the eye with my crucifix pendantPosted by rita in nur soComments (0) | Trackbacks (0)  if you think that is painful, don't come knocking at jesus's door!
Thursday, March 22. 2012
till tomorrow then i'll be sitting on edit: two days later -- no belgian flatmate. the search continues. Monday, March 19. 2012 elementary sherlocking: 'the mazarin stone' (1921)Posted by rita in culture is ordinaryComments (2) | Trackbacks (0) once more, tardiness reigns. this time it is all to do with my personal watson having moved out of the flat. my former flat-mate of eight years (though not biographer) has deserted me and relocated to her new abode last week. since then i have been ever so busy cleaning up my personal mess to make these rooms presentable to prospective new watsons. btw. i still take applications. but that's enough with that. let's turn to ACD plagiarizing himself this week.
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it all started with 4 eggs left over from last monday when i set out to make a sheet of muffins. today, i was overcome once more by the urge to bake something and settled on my fail-save recipe for short cakes. only to be stumped again by the realization that this is one of the recipes in my cook book that doesn't call for eggs. having made sure that i hadn't copied faulty instructions from the original recipe, the cakes went in the oven a mere 15 minutes later. truly, no eggs needed -- and i'm still left wondering what to do with those 4 from earlier this week.
yesterday morning the second potential flat-mate showed up at my door step to inspect the flat and room he'd be renting. he was chatty, nice, he didn't find the idea of heating his room with a coal stove repelling and enjoyed the view of the back garden. but on top of it all -- HE PETTED THE CAT!!!! please, move in and i will bake you muffins and cook you food, young MA student from belgium! alas i will have to wait till tomorrow until he gives me notice because he's still got two other flats to inspect.
