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serynI'm tired. Yesterday was a zoo at knitting group.
You know how all of you think I'm completely annoying and those of you who stick around love me anyway because you're pretty sure I'm not doing it just to piss you off and in some cases I'm oblivious? Yeah, the girl yesterday, not so much. Showed up wearing her knitting, announced that the sign said she didn't need to bring anything, then really loudly changed her mind about what she wanted to start like a bazillion times. I helped 7 more people too. That's a lot of people for 90 minutes. I've gotten to the point that I don't bring knitting to do anymore.
Looking at the weaving class in another tab-window. They say you can mail in your registration, but I'm thinking it would be easier to actually drive all the way there and register in person. It would allow me to see the place in advance (which would be good) and I won't need to print the freaking form.
I watched the new Poirot, "Cat Amongst the Pigeons", yesterday. I liked it pretty well except there didn't seem to be enough clues even in retrospect. It's like it was a mystery to the viewer because they didn't bother showing us more than Poirot saw. Poirot, again, doesn't display some OoC religious fervor. So whoever put that in the train one was just some ff.net-type loser who managed to con someone into letting them do a real script. And honestly, I miss Captain Hastings. Having Poirot fawning over a woman is kind of grotesque. I realize there's no canonical evidence for Poirot being gay, but the decades of episodes certainly lent that impression.
The guy from Jonathan Creek, Alan Davies, is in the new Inspector Lewis series. I'm not sure that's enough to get me to watch it. I have liked him in almost everything he's done, but that doesn't mean I actually liked Bob and Rose.
There's a new Sherlock Holmes thing coming up on PBS too.
The book I'm reading, Kelly McCullough's fourth, MythOS, had this really awesome pun. Made me literally laugh out loud. They come across a disembodied but sentient hand. They ask it its name. The hand says it wants to be called Laginn. They look that up and in the local lingo (Icelandic), it means deft, or.. handy.
I've been extremely tired and might go to bed early. I slept for 10 hours last night and woke up tired. Previous night I slept for 7 hours and had a 3 hour nap. Still tired. But I suspect it's been poor quality sleep or something.
You know how all of you think I'm completely annoying and those of you who stick around love me anyway because you're pretty sure I'm not doing it just to piss you off and in some cases I'm oblivious? Yeah, the girl yesterday, not so much. Showed up wearing her knitting, announced that the sign said she didn't need to bring anything, then really loudly changed her mind about what she wanted to start like a bazillion times. I helped 7 more people too. That's a lot of people for 90 minutes. I've gotten to the point that I don't bring knitting to do anymore.
Looking at the weaving class in another tab-window. They say you can mail in your registration, but I'm thinking it would be easier to actually drive all the way there and register in person. It would allow me to see the place in advance (which would be good) and I won't need to print the freaking form.
I watched the new Poirot, "Cat Amongst the Pigeons", yesterday. I liked it pretty well except there didn't seem to be enough clues even in retrospect. It's like it was a mystery to the viewer because they didn't bother showing us more than Poirot saw. Poirot, again, doesn't display some OoC religious fervor. So whoever put that in the train one was just some ff.net-type loser who managed to con someone into letting them do a real script. And honestly, I miss Captain Hastings. Having Poirot fawning over a woman is kind of grotesque. I realize there's no canonical evidence for Poirot being gay, but the decades of episodes certainly lent that impression.
The guy from Jonathan Creek, Alan Davies, is in the new Inspector Lewis series. I'm not sure that's enough to get me to watch it. I have liked him in almost everything he's done, but that doesn't mean I actually liked Bob and Rose.
There's a new Sherlock Holmes thing coming up on PBS too.
The book I'm reading, Kelly McCullough's fourth, MythOS, had this really awesome pun. Made me literally laugh out loud. They come across a disembodied but sentient hand. They ask it its name. The hand says it wants to be called Laginn. They look that up and in the local lingo (Icelandic), it means deft, or.. handy.
I've been extremely tired and might go to bed early. I slept for 10 hours last night and woke up tired. Previous night I slept for 7 hours and had a 3 hour nap. Still tired. But I suspect it's been poor quality sleep or something.
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Date: 2010-08-14 06:49 pm (UTC)Poirot always pinged asexual to me.
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Date: 2010-08-14 07:16 pm (UTC)There have been a number of scenes in the most recent handful of Suchet's Poirots where Poirot seems to have had an intimate relationship with the woman and that's why she felt she could ask his help. It bothers me.
It feels like now that Poirot is old he had to get religion and start toeing the line of appropriate behavior.... And that is lame.
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Date: 2010-08-14 10:31 pm (UTC)Sorry about the mini-preachiness, but clarification is good! Aces are really misunderstood. :\
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Date: 2010-08-14 11:07 pm (UTC)Poirot never touches women beyond the weird modified European handshake+bow thing. Of course he does not shake hands with men at all.... He did adjust Hastings's clothing once and that's usually reserved for people who are physically intimate.
But mostly it seemed like Poirot tolerated Hastings when he was being foolish and Poirot has a low tolerance for fools. So I probably read something into it.
I'm not going to argue whether Poirot really is asexual, because I think we agree that there has been no evidence he was interested in women. That was the problem I've been having with the most recent episodes. They all have these 60-ish women who follow Poirot with their eyes and who face their bodies toward him all the time they talk, they smile at him with this warm affection which is beyond what is considered merely polite. And Poirot proceeds to do them favors which are well beyond what he would do for mere friends. The whole set-up seems to be attempting to rectify the austere impression we have all had of Poirot.
The first one of these I saw was the remake of Murder On The Orient Express and in this version, Poirot is shown to be praying and thanks God for making him Catholic. I was so taken aback; it's beyond merely being out-of-character. And in it, he does this as a favor for a woman close to his own age who shows several markers of sexual interest toward him and he doesn't seem to rebuff them.
Previous Poirot episodes with the same actor have Poirot visibly rebuffing women by turning away, or gently mocking their foolish adherence to the roles of women. So the recent ones where he seems to have accepted sexual advances of women seem extremely out of character.