Flashback

I don't even like watch Veronica Mars and reading Kristen Bell's TV Guide on-line interview is giving me flashbacks to the bad old days of Marti Noxon being completely oblivious to what was actually on screen (and Buffy's flaws) and always claiming that the character of Spike was terrible and that people only liked the character because of JM (and his abs).

Sometimes the disconnect between what's being thought behind the scenes and what the fans think they're seeing on screen is astounding.

Anyway, still on a happy TV feeling due to the wonderfulness of last night's episode of Heroes. Whoever wrote that episode deserves a nice pat on the back.

Flashback

I don't even like watch Veronica Mars and reading Kristen Bell's TV Guide on-line interview is giving me flashbacks to the bad old days of Marti Noxon being completely oblivious to what was actually on screen (and Buffy's flaws) and always claiming that the character of Spike was terrible and that people only liked the character because of JM (and his abs).

Sometimes the disconnect between what's being thought behind the scenes and what the fans think they're seeing on screen is astounding.

Anyway, still on a happy TV feeling due to the wonderfulness of last night's episode of Heroes. Whoever wrote that episode deserves a nice pat on the back.

Flashback

I don't even like watch Veronica Mars and reading Kristen Bell's TV Guide on-line interview is giving me flashbacks to the bad old days of Marti Noxon being completely oblivious to what was actually on screen (and Buffy's flaws) and always claiming that the character of Spike was terrible and that people only liked the character because of JM (and his abs).

Sometimes the disconnect between what's being thought behind the scenes and what the fans think they're seeing on screen is astounding.

Anyway, still on a happy TV feeling due to the wonderfulness of last night's episode of Heroes. Whoever wrote that episode deserves a nice pat on the back.

Addenda

I've mentioned before our office-wide addiction to audiobooks  (if you draw for a living, you tend to listen to a lot of music and/or books)).  Anyway, due to interest in Rome, a general interest in history, and a growing love of biographies, I'm currently listening to Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor and have reached the point in the story where the historian discusses Cleopatra.  He mentioned a wide range of representations of her on coins "from the witch-like to the radiant" which, of course, brought to mind the article I posted last week about the Cleo/Antony coin .   The historian goes on to mention a bust of Cleopatra in the Berlin Museum.   (Yay, for Google which can find damn near anything.) So here is an alternative representation of Cleo .

Addenda

I've mentioned before our office-wide addiction to audiobooks  (if you draw for a living, you tend to listen to a lot of music and/or books)).  Anyway, due to interest in Rome, a general interest in history, and a growing love of biographies, I'm currently listening to Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor and have reached the point in the story where the historian discusses Cleopatra.  He mentioned a wide range of representations of her on coins "from the witch-like to the radiant" which, of course, brought to mind the article I posted last week about the Cleo/Antony coin .   The historian goes on to mention a bust of Cleopatra in the Berlin Museum.   (Yay, for Google which can find damn near anything.) So here is an alternative representation of Cleo .

Addenda

I've mentioned before our office-wide addiction to audiobooks  (if you draw for a living, you tend to listen to a lot of music and/or books)).  Anyway, due to interest in Rome, a general interest in history, and a growing love of biographies, I'm currently listening to Augustus: The Life of Rome's First Emperor and have reached the point in the story where the historian discusses Cleopatra.  He mentioned a wide range of representations of her on coins "from the witch-like to the radiant" which, of course, brought to mind the article I posted last week about the Cleo/Antony coin .   The historian goes on to mention a bust of Cleopatra in the Berlin Museum.   (Yay, for Google which can find damn near anything.) So here is an alternative representation of Cleo .