Vintage Dresses

justawench pointed out this Ebay auction. Amazing clothing from the 19th century being auctioned off. Oh, for several thousand dollars!

Later: 18th century too.

Vintage Dresses

justawench pointed out this Ebay auction. Amazing clothing from the 19th century being auctioned off. Oh, for several thousand dollars!

Later: 18th century too.

Vintage Dresses

justawench pointed out this Ebay auction. Amazing clothing from the 19th century being auctioned off. Oh, for several thousand dollars!

Later: 18th century too.

Ask Me If I'm Glad It's Friday

Yes, I AM!!

It's been a week and then some.

On tap for the weekend is a movie Sat. when Nin gets home from work, then sheet and towel laundry. We have house guests two weekends in a row, so need to make the apartment habitable. Sunday we need to shampoo the carpets. Bleah. And put away all the Halloween decorations. I'm also going to make chicken and dumplings from scratch, starting with a whole chicken, making stock, and so on and so forth. Never done it like this before, normally I make a sauce with soup and chicken broth and such and put in pieces of chicken and veggies. But I've been craving chicken and dumplings for some reason, so I decided to try a new recipe.

Since Nin's been home evenings all week, we're fairly caught up on our weekly TV slate, though still behind on some of the shows we never got caught up with in the first place. Make sense? I really enjoyed Grey's last night, and Ugly Betty is still making me laugh and cry. Supernatural was enjoyable as well. And from earlier in the week, House rocks this season! Wow, I'm getting some of my old total fangirl love of this show back. Not that I didn't enjoy the last two seasons, but it had lost some of the zing that made me worship S1. I'm liking Men In Trees more and more, and I'm really glad I started watching it by accident mid first season :) I'm also developing a real fondness for Private Practice, though still not enough that I would rather have Addison back on Grey's. And of course, Chuck, Moonlight, Journeyman, Life -- all good.

Of course, if this strike goes on too long, I'll have to get DVDs of series I haven't seen. Not to mention watch the all the ones I already own but haven't had time to watch yet!

Ask Me If I'm Glad It's Friday

Yes, I AM!!

It's been a week and then some.

On tap for the weekend is a movie Sat. when Nin gets home from work, then sheet and towel laundry. We have house guests two weekends in a row, so need to make the apartment habitable. Sunday we need to shampoo the carpets. Bleah. And put away all the Halloween decorations. I'm also going to make chicken and dumplings from scratch, starting with a whole chicken, making stock, and so on and so forth. Never done it like this before, normally I make a sauce with soup and chicken broth and such and put in pieces of chicken and veggies. But I've been craving chicken and dumplings for some reason, so I decided to try a new recipe.

Since Nin's been home evenings all week, we're fairly caught up on our weekly TV slate, though still behind on some of the shows we never got caught up with in the first place. Make sense? I really enjoyed Grey's last night, and Ugly Betty is still making me laugh and cry. Supernatural was enjoyable as well. And from earlier in the week, House rocks this season! Wow, I'm getting some of my old total fangirl love of this show back. Not that I didn't enjoy the last two seasons, but it had lost some of the zing that made me worship S1. I'm liking Men In Trees more and more, and I'm really glad I started watching it by accident mid first season :) I'm also developing a real fondness for Private Practice, though still not enough that I would rather have Addison back on Grey's. And of course, Chuck, Moonlight, Journeyman, Life -- all good.

Of course, if this strike goes on too long, I'll have to get DVDs of series I haven't seen. Not to mention watch the all the ones I already own but haven't had time to watch yet!

Ask Me If I'm Glad It's Friday

Yes, I AM!!

It's been a week and then some.

On tap for the weekend is a movie Sat. when Nin gets home from work, then sheet and towel laundry. We have house guests two weekends in a row, so need to make the apartment habitable. Sunday we need to shampoo the carpets. Bleah. And put away all the Halloween decorations. I'm also going to make chicken and dumplings from scratch, starting with a whole chicken, making stock, and so on and so forth. Never done it like this before, normally I make a sauce with soup and chicken broth and such and put in pieces of chicken and veggies. But I've been craving chicken and dumplings for some reason, so I decided to try a new recipe.

Since Nin's been home evenings all week, we're fairly caught up on our weekly TV slate, though still behind on some of the shows we never got caught up with in the first place. Make sense? I really enjoyed Grey's last night, and Ugly Betty is still making me laugh and cry. Supernatural was enjoyable as well. And from earlier in the week, House rocks this season! Wow, I'm getting some of my old total fangirl love of this show back. Not that I didn't enjoy the last two seasons, but it had lost some of the zing that made me worship S1. I'm liking Men In Trees more and more, and I'm really glad I started watching it by accident mid first season :) I'm also developing a real fondness for Private Practice, though still not enough that I would rather have Addison back on Grey's. And of course, Chuck, Moonlight, Journeyman, Life -- all good.

Of course, if this strike goes on too long, I'll have to get DVDs of series I haven't seen. Not to mention watch the all the ones I already own but haven't had time to watch yet!

Not Promising

I've been reading Deadline Hollywood Daily, and this post on the mogul POV of the strike. Get a load of this:

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As for Chernin, Iger, Barry Meyer, Moonves, and also Zucker, they actually welcome a strike because they believe the 2007/2008 TV season is dead on arrival anyway. So many new shows are tanking in the ratings and/or going over budget and/or having production problems (Fox's Back To You, Nashville, K-VILLE; CBS' Kid Nation, Cane and Viva Laughlin (UPDATE: the first scripted new show of the season to be killed); NBC's Journeyman, Life and Bionic Woman; ABC's Cavemen, Big Shots, Dirty Sexy Money, and Pushing Daisies.) Even returning hit shows are losing their Nielsen luster (NBC's Heroes, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, CBS' CSI:Miami and Cold Case) that they feel this is as as good a time for a strike as any. As one mogul told me, "We can get rid of the overhead and regroup and rethink everything. If we were having a great year, it might be different. But we're not, and this is like an automatic do-over." As Les Moonves last week told his personal publicist (or is it apologist?), Bill Carter of The New York Times, "I'm not concerned about the state of CBS. I'm a bit concerned about the state of network television generally."

There's much more at the link.

Not Promising

I've been reading Deadline Hollywood Daily, and this post on the mogul POV of the strike. Get a load of this:

«   »

As for Chernin, Iger, Barry Meyer, Moonves, and also Zucker, they actually welcome a strike because they believe the 2007/2008 TV season is dead on arrival anyway. So many new shows are tanking in the ratings and/or going over budget and/or having production problems (Fox's Back To You, Nashville, K-VILLE; CBS' Kid Nation, Cane and Viva Laughlin (UPDATE: the first scripted new show of the season to be killed); NBC's Journeyman, Life and Bionic Woman; ABC's Cavemen, Big Shots, Dirty Sexy Money, and Pushing Daisies.) Even returning hit shows are losing their Nielsen luster (NBC's Heroes, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, CBS' CSI:Miami and Cold Case) that they feel this is as as good a time for a strike as any. As one mogul told me, "We can get rid of the overhead and regroup and rethink everything. If we were having a great year, it might be different. But we're not, and this is like an automatic do-over." As Les Moonves last week told his personal publicist (or is it apologist?), Bill Carter of The New York Times, "I'm not concerned about the state of CBS. I'm a bit concerned about the state of network television generally."

There's much more at the link.

Not Promising

I've been reading Deadline Hollywood Daily, and this post on the mogul POV of the strike. Get a load of this:

«   »

As for Chernin, Iger, Barry Meyer, Moonves, and also Zucker, they actually welcome a strike because they believe the 2007/2008 TV season is dead on arrival anyway. So many new shows are tanking in the ratings and/or going over budget and/or having production problems (Fox's Back To You, Nashville, K-VILLE; CBS' Kid Nation, Cane and Viva Laughlin (UPDATE: the first scripted new show of the season to be killed); NBC's Journeyman, Life and Bionic Woman; ABC's Cavemen, Big Shots, Dirty Sexy Money, and Pushing Daisies.) Even returning hit shows are losing their Nielsen luster (NBC's Heroes, ABC's Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, CBS' CSI:Miami and Cold Case) that they feel this is as as good a time for a strike as any. As one mogul told me, "We can get rid of the overhead and regroup and rethink everything. If we were having a great year, it might be different. But we're not, and this is like an automatic do-over." As Les Moonves last week told his personal publicist (or is it apologist?), Bill Carter of The New York Times, "I'm not concerned about the state of CBS. I'm a bit concerned about the state of network television generally."

There's much more at the link.

A Few More Strike Related Thoughts

As I was walking home, I was thinking about the '88 strike. Ugh! But what we have now, that we didn't have in '88 was hundreds of boutique channels. We didn't have a channel like BBC America. Now, should the strike be a prolonged one, they might be one of the few sources of new scripted TV there is. SciFi will probably have new stuff as well, at least in the B movie department. Which led me to wondering: will we see the big networks buying rights to air shows from the UK or Canada? And what about US shows that are made in Canada? I wonder what the small print on different contracts is as far as those productions being able to hire Canadian writers? And last, but not least, if this is a long strike, and goes as long as the '88 one, we could conceivably see the writers come back only to have the actors walk out in June. Dang!

An Hour Later: According to Deadline Hollywood, a Federal mediator has intervened.

A Few More Strike Related Thoughts

As I was walking home, I was thinking about the '88 strike. Ugh! But what we have now, that we didn't have in '88 was hundreds of boutique channels. We didn't have a channel like BBC America. Now, should the strike be a prolonged one, they might be one of the few sources of new scripted TV there is. SciFi will probably have new stuff as well, at least in the B movie department. Which led me to wondering: will we see the big networks buying rights to air shows from the UK or Canada? And what about US shows that are made in Canada? I wonder what the small print on different contracts is as far as those productions being able to hire Canadian writers? And last, but not least, if this is a long strike, and goes as long as the '88 one, we could conceivably see the writers come back only to have the actors walk out in June. Dang!

An Hour Later: According to Deadline Hollywood, a Federal mediator has intervened.

A Few More Strike Related Thoughts

As I was walking home, I was thinking about the '88 strike. Ugh! But what we have now, that we didn't have in '88 was hundreds of boutique channels. We didn't have a channel like BBC America. Now, should the strike be a prolonged one, they might be one of the few sources of new scripted TV there is. SciFi will probably have new stuff as well, at least in the B movie department. Which led me to wondering: will we see the big networks buying rights to air shows from the UK or Canada? And what about US shows that are made in Canada? I wonder what the small print on different contracts is as far as those productions being able to hire Canadian writers? And last, but not least, if this is a long strike, and goes as long as the '88 one, we could conceivably see the writers come back only to have the actors walk out in June. Dang!

An Hour Later: According to Deadline Hollywood, a Federal mediator has intervened.