For the two of you who want to see The Little Minister

Posted on January 28, 2009
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… I offer a few more images from the film.

Some dismiss the film, but obviously I’m a fan.

Our snow has now turned over to rain and what was pretty is now muck.  Alas.

It’s nice to have Ezra home for a snow day, even if we are both working.  I happen to be working on something rather tedious, and having Ez here makes it a little more bearable.

Happy Wednesday!

A Romantic Start to the Weekend

Posted on January 23, 2009
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Today was a slow day work-wise, which was a-okay for a Friday.  After breakfasting at Diesel and working out at the gym, I came home to some cats, puttering, and knitting.  While knitting, I watched the 1934 Katherine Hepburn film The Little Minister.  It’s a romance set in Scotland.  Hepburn’s character dresses as a gypsy, and when she and the town’s young new minister fall in love, it’s a bit of a scandal.  John Beal plays the young minister.  Beal’s face is somewhat familiar, but most people don’t know his name.  Though he worked more or less steadily throughout his life, I think this is considered one of his best films.  It’s sort of a shame he didn’t get more interesting roles after this.  I think he shows potential in this one.  I mean, if he can hold his own opposite Hepburn (which I think he does), he’s got something.


Nino Rota’s score for La Dolce Vita

Posted on January 18, 2009
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I’m still here!

Posted on January 15, 2009
Filed Under Blather, cooking, craft, knitting | 6 Comments

So it’s been forever and a day since I last posted anything here.  But I’m still living, breathing, and sometimes doing other things.

Last night we made tofu florentine.  Alas, I did not take a picture, because it really was a pretty sight.  It’s much like eggs florentine, except vegan.  So instead of eggs, you use broiled tofu, and instead of whatever sauce is normally used on eggs florentine (er… not sure… hollandaise?), you use a vegan “cheezy” sauce made of veggie broth, flour, nutritional yeast flakes, and spices.  Ez and I are already pondering other uses for the broiled tofu and cheezy sauce–both were quite tasty and not too hard to make.

I’m knitting a little blanket with Mission Falls 1824 superwash wool.  You can even put this stuff in the dryer, which is pretty unusual for decent handknitting yarn.  So far so good, though I did have to start over.  I’m trying a design that I sort of made up, and after getting through 50 or so rows I decided that I wanted to revise the design a little.  It’s easier to decide this now than it would be after 200+ rows!

It’s supposed to be snowing today, but I’ve seen nary a flake.  I have my doubts.  I feel like I’m the only person in the Greater Boston area who is annoyed that the forecasted snow is not actually falling.

Today for the first time in ages I was actually looking for my 1990 and 1991 high school yearbooks and I can’t find them!  So annoying.  I have a feeling they might be tucked away in the bowels of the hall closet, or even somewhere in the basement.

So you can see why I haven’t been blogging much–not much to report!  I’ll try to be better about it, though.

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