During the Renaissance, cabinet of curiosities came into fashion as a collection of objects that would often defy classification. As a precursor to the modern museum, the cabinet referred to room(s), not actual furniture, of things that piqued the owners interest and would be collected and displayed in an aesthetically pleasing manner. Collectioun of Cunnynge Curioustes is my 21st century interpretation of that idea.
Dear Internet,
Another week of bed rest, another week where I watched too much TV in a variety of guises. This week, I finally ended my round of post-surgery drugs, started taking my ADHD medicines again, and for while, the two overlapped. I was all over the place in my head that even doing anything more than browsing the internets or watching TV was tasking. Definitely no writing, and I’m behind on several writing projects as it is. My brain definitely fees like it is on fire. And that is all about to change again.
Watching
- Andrew Marr’s History of the World
- Calf’s Head and Coffee: The Golden Age of English Food
- Food in England: The Lost World of Dorothy Hartley
- Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex,
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale
- Sinbad
- Mr. Selfridge
- Wartime Farm
- Banshee
- House of Cards
Also weekly watching: Portlandia, Top Gear UK, House of Lies, Elementary, Spartacus, The Americans, Archer, and Project Runway.
Links
- The waitress responds, Tips are not optional, they are how waiters get paid in America
- “I have been so mauled by medical procedures, so sabotaged and made over, so thin and so fat, that sometimes I feel that each morning it is necessary to write myself into being – even if the writing is aimless doodling that no one will ever read, or the diary that no one can see till I’m dead.”
- The Tiny Transforming Apartment: 8 Rooms in 420 Square Feet
- If you tend to take a lot of pictures, remember that camera angeles are critical
- “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” The bones of Richard III have been found
- This does not link to The Onion: Parisian women now legally allowed to wear trousers
- Tor put together a list of the most commons words used in SciFi/Fantasy titles
- See the Real Models for the Archer Characters
- Apparently if you’re a librarian, and you have an opinion about a publisher’s offerings, that publisher will sue if you if it disagrees
- Coming soon to a heaving bossom near you, an Upstairs/Downstairs version of Pride and Prejudice
x0x0,
Lisa