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Murder She Wrote top 5 (so far)

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MSWAll right, after my first ruminations on Murder She Wrote,  Brad challenged me to pick my top 5 episodes.  It was hard, and maybe not completely accurate because I’ve only finished 7.5 of 12 seasons, but here we go!

  1. “If It’s Thursday, It Must Be Beverly:”  wherein the Sheriff’s deputy services a different Cabot Cove female everyday of the week, and records it in the log book.
  2. “Sticks & Stones:”  including the talents of John Astin (as in Gomez Addams) as the new town Sheriff, and a bunch of gossipy letters.
  3. “Who Killed J.B. Fletcher:”  wherein a bunch of looney Fletcher Fan’s goad and gaggle Jessica through solving a case.
  4. “The Sins of Castle Cove:” which is also awesome because it exposes the Cabot Cove residents as oversexed and underhanded yet somehow adorable persons.  (see “If It’s Thursday….”)
  5. “Mr. Penroy’s Vacation:” which I liked immediately because of the plot and character references to Arsenic and Old Lace.

Another episode I liked for it’s familiar plot line was “Jessica Behind Bars” in which she has to solve a murder in a locked-down women’s prison before riot and police enforcement collided.  Though it didn’t so much harken back to something else I’d seen so much as establish that Jessica did it first.

Also a runner up was “Trouble in Eden” because of the shock and hilarity of sending Jessica as the hereditary replacement of the madame of a brothel.   See, if I have runners up, I still only picked a top five!

A couple worst of the worst:

  1. “Sing a Song of Murder:”  because no, no Jessica!  a red headed identical twin Irish cousin!?!
  2. “No Laughing Matter:”  aptly named.  Oh, Buddy Hackett…why?

Super hero Annie

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I said more to come, and here it is.  Super side-kick Annie.

Are you a podcast listener?

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I’m not really, but folks on Tumblr have been talking about a podcast ala radio show from a place called Night Vale, so I gave a listen.  Welcome to Night Vale (from Commonplace books) is like some strange combination of Pontypool, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Twin Peaks.

Super heros

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Remember how I said I’d been watching a lot of superhero movies?  Of, course you do, it was just a couple days ago!  So, of course, I’ve been drawing super heroes.  And I’ve been drawing my own characters as super heroes.  Here are some.

I imagined that if Levi Levi were a super hero he would be kind of like Captain America.  If Clement and Rosalie Skitt were super heroes, they would be from an alternate time line where, instead of creating a time machine, they figured out a way to augment their own bodies with super powers.  Crazy science kids, you gotta love ’em.

More to come…

Comic book heroes

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Richard of DoomedMoviethon and I have been watching a lot of DC animated movies.  Not so much Marvel – I think they’re better at live action (though maybe we haven’t found the right one).  These activities reawakened in me the desire for an illustrated character manual…lo and behold my purchase.

Sigh.  I suppose I didn’t expect competing comic companies to release an exhaustive compendium together, and I am still missing the cadre of Image characters, but this will have to do.  (…actually it does really well and I’m crazy excited and won’t let these books wander far from the coffee table).

Levi Levi and the Time Machine

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I promise, Levi Levi and the Time Machine will be back to posting every Thursday very very soon.  I am almost doing only normal things everyday at home instead of unpacking, hanging pictures, and tripping over the tool box.  In the meantime, I give you some cover art.

Some thoughts on Murder She Wrote

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Yup, that’s right.  It has been my go to background show for all things packing and unpacking and now I’ve just become addicted to it.

NCIS-ers, remember when Timmy got sent to that women’s prison and then trapped in a riot where the only way to keep the peace is for him to solve the murder before the authorities busted everything up?  Jessica did it first – with Adrienne Barbeau, no less!  So maybe, Jessica solved an Amish murder after Harrison Ford, but she did it before Neve Campbell!  She’s uncovered toxic waste, helped Russians defect, gone to the circus, stood in as the madame of a brothel, run afoul of MI6, foiled a voodoo curse, teamed up with Magnum P.I. and she even has a look-a-like Irish twin! 

If it’s a murder mystery or a slasher movie plot, Jessica has done it:  murders at a snowed in ski lodge, anyone?  Hauntings by an executed witch?  And, I’m only up to season 7; there are 12 of these duders!  I wonder why I hadn’t been paying attention when Mom and I used to watch Murder She Wrote every week.  I am waiting for aliens, ’cause they’ve just got to be coming.

Shoes!

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Yo!  I just bought these shoes:

Amazon.com: Aravon Women’s Maura T-Strap Pump,Black,10 D US: Shoes.

And I have to tell you all the reasons they are so awesome.  1.) I always wanted t-strap shoes.  There is an old-time class about them without being crazy stuffy (like patent leather).  However, the make of most t-strap shoes and the make of my feet never got along.  You see, I have a size 10, maybe 10.5 foot that was born flat (of all the things flat feet means, for me the most annoying is width) and I have gotten used to shopping size 11 because all shoe stores carry whole sizes in medium/narrow width.  Sizing up doesn’t help with certain shoe designs, like a t-strap.  But THESE SHOES come in wide and half sizes.  With the ultimate comfort of leather molding to the foot as it warms and a great insole: these are comfy!

2.) I was already captured by the construction and size options while ‘window’ shopping.  I figured I’d save up for the ~$120 purchase (~ for inaccurate memory).  A week ago, I was going over my saved shopping list and saw that they had been repriced at ~$36.  Holy Cannoli, Batman!  I must have those shoes.

3.) Even though I was relatively hopeful because of the sizing and construction (boxy toe for my Birkenstock feet), I have only had few and bad experiences buying shoes online.  But they came and they are the awesomest of awesome.  I wore them all yesterday with only a couple tiny spots on my feet that will need breaking in.

I am now greedy and spoiled.  I need to replace my brown shoes as well with something equally as awesome…and, I am having no luck.  Truly amazing shoes are, after all, few and far between.

DuckDuckGo

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So, I was trying out a new search engine after reading over some news items examining the amount of advertiser listings in a Google search, and DuckDuckGo is really pretty great.  I searched me, of course, and LeEtta Schmidt at DuckDuckGo came up with better results than I’ve had elsewhere.

story book monsters

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I cannot now remember what inspired this drawing, but I still like it.

pattern

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I think we need some color here, so have some color.  I’ve been experimenting…I have these patterns and textures that I made/collected and it’s really cool to see them as a pattern on a character garment.  You know, I’ve never ever typed or written the word garment before…

I have to admit, even though Camp NaNoWriMo has begun, I’m still really distracted by what remains of the unpacking.  I will fit it all in somehow.  And then I will scan drawings, draw drawings and get some Levi Levi back on the Bean.

Doodling

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Ono

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Some sexy outfits for Ono of Unlikely Bedfellows.  And I need to figure out a better comic script for that page.

who

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WhoAreYouThe move is moved.  That is, all of our stuff is now at its new location and some of it is even unpacked.  Most of it maybe – can I say most of it?  I have been alternately hopeful for the final product and overwhelmed by stuff. Liberal applications of Murder She Wrote barely take the sting away.

Even after my initial realization:  When what you love gets lost in what you have, I am still stripping away layers.  It will be awesome when it is done.  I promise.

Finishing off the apartment will have to be on hold while I get my librarian on at ALA this weekend.

This picture accidentally looks like a friend of mine.

Murder She Wrote is the continuous background entertainment of choice for packing and unpacking.  And now I may be getting addicted.  It’s a TV actor surprise around every corner!

This is now officially rambling.

nature spirit

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