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Weekend Stuff
Sep. 30th, 2013 09:55 amWeekend Stuff:
The Puppy grew hoarse this weekend. I'm not sure what caused it. She was eating okay and drinking okay, and I cannot remember her running against the leash (and she's up-to-date on her shots) so I can't think it was obstruction, damage, or kennel cough. Googling says they can get laryngitis or upper respitory infections. She was quiet (not just voice-wise but activity-wise) on Friday, but she was bouncy again on Saturday and Sunday (She is a very bouncy girl. Bounciest dog I've ever had. It's kind of adorable). Her voice seemed much better last night, so I'm thinking maybe it was just laryngitis. Keeping an eye on her just in case. Anything persists and I'll take her to the vet, but I think she's getting over whatever it was.
Went to the game Saturday. Quite the game. Very exciting, just about lost my voice from screaming.
Ole Miss's defense was actually quite good, I thought. Very fast on the edges and pressuring the quarterback. With our being Alabama, we worship defenses, so the big take home was preventing Ole Miss from scoring even once during the game. Our offensive line still needs work, but we did AT LAST develop a running game. Since we traditionally have good running games (better to eat up the clock with) it's been disconcerting that the running game has been poor this year (and it has to be an offensive line problem because Yeldon was awesome last year and he's still good. The O-line is quit young though since so many graduated last year.) So, finally seeing a real running game in the second half, there's been some improvement on that score. Though we'll need greater improvement still before we play LSU... who looked quite impressive against Georgia despite losing to Georgia (Clemson must be THRILLED).
Watched one of the penultimate episodes of The White Queen. The show is quite silly, but there is one thing that does intrigue me as it does seem to fit both show and 'history', that being... why in the frell is the Queen accused of the KING's doings? All of these women are mostly powerless and at the mercies of all of the men involved, and yet they all go through elaborate rationalizations (up to and including accusations of witchcraft) to make something the Queen's fault when she's as powerless in the situation as all the other women. (Cherry on top in the show was Elizabeth accused of causing Isobel's miscarriage... like Isobel's father herding her off to France late in her pregnancy wasn't perhaps more of an actual issue. Then again, death during childbirth was most likely a more practical cause of death that 'cursing' as well...) This accusation of power by proxy seems to apply not just to the people of that time, but to some degree of history. Googling Elizabeth Woodville and other historical novels involving her, there seems to be a repeated theme of her being evilly 'ambitious' because she placed her family in grand positions. Er... unlike everyone else? Wasn't that basically the full-time business of royal courts? ALL royal courts? Seriously, it does rather reek of classism, does it not? Everyone was currying kingly favors and position, but SHE is evil because she was a 'commoner' doing so? She wasn't doing anything the rest of them weren't doing, so I gather she was 'evil' because her name wasn't considered to be high enough...?
Watched the Once Upon a Time premiere. They dispatched with some plot elements from last year pretty quickly, but I do appreciate their having inverted the tale of Peter Pan (who knew that Pan is far more... Pan-like and that Hook would be the one to seem the more likable of the two). Sleeping Beauty and Mulan also appeared again (you know, I could go for a Mulan/Robin Hood pairing. Don't think they have any thought of that, but thinking on it... that could work).
And OUAT recaps always make me think I'm talking like a madwoman. Hee!
Speaking of dispatching with things from last season, hoo-boy Revenge instantly dispensed with several things they set-up in the finale. Unlike Nashville, Revenge seemed to think that re-tooling meant actual re-tooling. Revenge seems to have gone back to the basics, with Emily Thorne back to inflicting vengeance rather than working on secret spy schemes against nebulous entitites. I totally appreciated the meta line between Emily and Nolan of "Let's never mention the Initiative again." Quite correct, let's not.
Finally, watched Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious on Turner Classic Movies last night. For one reason or another, I had never seen that movie in its entirity before. If you really look at it, Grant's "Devlin" is a massively passive-aggressive sexist dillhole, but...well... it's Cary and he's gorgeous and this was filmed forever and a day ago so the rampant sexism in the plot wasn't perceived as the rampant sexism that it is (because it was "good guy" sexism with Cary intermittently defending but resisting the 'hussey'.) Still, I enjoyed it and I'm glad I finally got around to seeing the entire movie rather than the few random clips I'd seen before.
The Puppy grew hoarse this weekend. I'm not sure what caused it. She was eating okay and drinking okay, and I cannot remember her running against the leash (and she's up-to-date on her shots) so I can't think it was obstruction, damage, or kennel cough. Googling says they can get laryngitis or upper respitory infections. She was quiet (not just voice-wise but activity-wise) on Friday, but she was bouncy again on Saturday and Sunday (She is a very bouncy girl. Bounciest dog I've ever had. It's kind of adorable). Her voice seemed much better last night, so I'm thinking maybe it was just laryngitis. Keeping an eye on her just in case. Anything persists and I'll take her to the vet, but I think she's getting over whatever it was.
Went to the game Saturday. Quite the game. Very exciting, just about lost my voice from screaming.
Ole Miss's defense was actually quite good, I thought. Very fast on the edges and pressuring the quarterback. With our being Alabama, we worship defenses, so the big take home was preventing Ole Miss from scoring even once during the game. Our offensive line still needs work, but we did AT LAST develop a running game. Since we traditionally have good running games (better to eat up the clock with) it's been disconcerting that the running game has been poor this year (and it has to be an offensive line problem because Yeldon was awesome last year and he's still good. The O-line is quit young though since so many graduated last year.) So, finally seeing a real running game in the second half, there's been some improvement on that score. Though we'll need greater improvement still before we play LSU... who looked quite impressive against Georgia despite losing to Georgia (Clemson must be THRILLED).
Watched one of the penultimate episodes of The White Queen. The show is quite silly, but there is one thing that does intrigue me as it does seem to fit both show and 'history', that being... why in the frell is the Queen accused of the KING's doings? All of these women are mostly powerless and at the mercies of all of the men involved, and yet they all go through elaborate rationalizations (up to and including accusations of witchcraft) to make something the Queen's fault when she's as powerless in the situation as all the other women. (Cherry on top in the show was Elizabeth accused of causing Isobel's miscarriage... like Isobel's father herding her off to France late in her pregnancy wasn't perhaps more of an actual issue. Then again, death during childbirth was most likely a more practical cause of death that 'cursing' as well...) This accusation of power by proxy seems to apply not just to the people of that time, but to some degree of history. Googling Elizabeth Woodville and other historical novels involving her, there seems to be a repeated theme of her being evilly 'ambitious' because she placed her family in grand positions. Er... unlike everyone else? Wasn't that basically the full-time business of royal courts? ALL royal courts? Seriously, it does rather reek of classism, does it not? Everyone was currying kingly favors and position, but SHE is evil because she was a 'commoner' doing so? She wasn't doing anything the rest of them weren't doing, so I gather she was 'evil' because her name wasn't considered to be high enough...?
Watched the Once Upon a Time premiere. They dispatched with some plot elements from last year pretty quickly, but I do appreciate their having inverted the tale of Peter Pan (who knew that Pan is far more... Pan-like and that Hook would be the one to seem the more likable of the two). Sleeping Beauty and Mulan also appeared again (you know, I could go for a Mulan/Robin Hood pairing. Don't think they have any thought of that, but thinking on it... that could work).
And OUAT recaps always make me think I'm talking like a madwoman. Hee!
Speaking of dispatching with things from last season, hoo-boy Revenge instantly dispensed with several things they set-up in the finale. Unlike Nashville, Revenge seemed to think that re-tooling meant actual re-tooling. Revenge seems to have gone back to the basics, with Emily Thorne back to inflicting vengeance rather than working on secret spy schemes against nebulous entitites. I totally appreciated the meta line between Emily and Nolan of "Let's never mention the Initiative again." Quite correct, let's not.
Finally, watched Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman in Notorious on Turner Classic Movies last night. For one reason or another, I had never seen that movie in its entirity before. If you really look at it, Grant's "Devlin" is a massively passive-aggressive sexist dillhole, but...well... it's Cary and he's gorgeous and this was filmed forever and a day ago so the rampant sexism in the plot wasn't perceived as the rampant sexism that it is (because it was "good guy" sexism with Cary intermittently defending but resisting the 'hussey'.) Still, I enjoyed it and I'm glad I finally got around to seeing the entire movie rather than the few random clips I'd seen before.
