Could you describe the ruckus, sir?

I don't seem to have an appropriately vikingish icon

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 06:50:51 GMT

Are any of y'all watching these "Athelstan's Journal" minis that the History channel is spitting out? The ones where Athelstan is keeping an actual, bound (paper? parchment?) journal that he's writing in, along with some lovely charcoal sketches of Ragnar and Lagertha.

I think this is all of them? Athelstan's Journal on YouTube. (No idea if its region-locked, and doesn't appear to be captioned, at least not on mobile.)

In one of the ones I cleared off the DVR tonight (family?), near the beginning he refers to "a consolation devoutly to be wished," because what's the point of riffing on history if you can't rip off some Shakespeare on the way, right?

I shouldn't complain, though, because I would probably prefer a full length season that was just Athelstan narrating over everything, Wonder Years style.

I can't remember whether I linked to An Historian Goes to the Movies when I found it (via metanews possibly? or possibly googling for things for that yuletide snippet I wrote). So, now I've linked to it!

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Attempting to be done with Vikings

Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:03:37 GMT

I am here for: fraternal tension, intercultural conflicts, crises of faith, Floki, badass fight scenes, Lagertha being awesome

Vikings keeps giving me: ( not that )

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Free HBO weekend strikes again

Mon, 07 Apr 2014 21:56:06 GMT

If you were tempted by the presence of either Dylan O'Brien or Aasif Mandvi to see The Internship but the trailer made you nope the heck out, I'm pleased to tell you that the movie... isn't worse than the trailer?

( this got unexpectedly long, but not spoilery as such )

Also, finally watched Pitch Perfect, and have The Sessions and Admission queued up for eventually.

Re: Admission, did you know the plot was not just rom-com genericness with Tina Fey and Paul Rudd playing Tina Fey and Paul Rudd? "A Princeton admissions officer who is up for a major promotion takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption" Why was that in the description in the channel guide, and yet not at all present in any of the commercials I saw?

Floki and Athelstan continue to be the only reasons for me to watch Vikings. At least partly because it's so dark for half of every episode that I never have any idea what's going on.

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might as well post about Vikings now...

Sun, 16 Mar 2014 00:17:35 GMT

I've got this seasons' episodes of Vikings saved on my DVR, but I'm so not excited about watching them. I sort of want to go back to the start of season one and then give up and pretend they're just off in happy farmer threesome land. I'm researching the S1 finale and yeah. still hate it.

Ragnar's accent/diction are killing me. Killing me. Can he just stand in the corner and brood silently, and everone else can advance the plot around him?

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