Assorted Ramblings...

Having seen and been inspired by the housekeeping posts made by some of my f-listees, I thought I should probably have a look through all the fandom-related rambling I did in 2010 and see if it warranted organising. To my surprise, there was quite a lot of it.

Here, then are the thinky-thoughts, reviews, picspams, fanfic and meta that I posted last year:

( Doctor Who )
( Other Telly )
( Fandom-related memes )
( Picspams. Mostly David Tennant centric! )
( Fanfiction )

Last night, my fellow DFGs and I embarked upon a very serious discussion as to the hotness - or otherwise - of a number of the objects of our fangirlish affections.

And by serious, I mean we threw an obscene amount of pretty around teh interwebz!

Needless to say, there was some agreement and some discord, mostly about the fact that Fenny and I are rather 'meh' about Nathan Fillon - but it just goes to show how true the old adage is. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.

It also gives me the excuse to post pictures of a stupendous amount of pretty and hotness.

And, you know, some other blokes who aren't David Tennant.

( clicky for teh pretty! )

snorkel_maiden is a truly evil woman. Even though she gave me two goes at this.

1) Comment to this and I will give you three people.
2) Post this meme with your answers.
3) Provide pictures and the names of the three people I gave you.
4) Label which you would marry, shag, and throw off a cliff.

I get to choose between

1) Martin Sheen, Bradley Whitford and David Tennant
or
2) Meatloaf, Justin Bieber and Justin Timberlake.

1) is ... just mean
2) is ... a real trial because I've got to try to remember who the hell they all are!

So, in reverse order... (drum roll, please)

( Number 2 )
( Number 1 )

Yeah. You're all really shocked, I can tell :-P

Last summer, when Catherine Tate was appearing in a play in London, DFGs hooloovoo_42, zinke and I went to see it, and managed to meet CT afterwards. We chatted for a while, and then Fenny presented her with a DFG T-shirt featuring a mug shot of one Mr Whitford (taken in NY), together with a smaller, heart-shaped photo of CT and David Tennant underneath. Ms Tate seemed a bit bemused initially, but when she realised it was a pic of Brad on the shirt, she whooped with glee, and yelled, "oh, I love him!!!!"

Anyway, this morning on Radio 2, Tate & Tennant were sitting in for Jonathan Ross - and I really think they should do it more often, because they're a fantastic double act - and a listener emailed or texted in to say that they had been given a t-shirt for Xmas which had David Tennant's face on it, and that she was wearing it - and her husband was sulking. Heh.

CT then went on to describe - IN DETAIL - the shirt that Fenny had given her last year! If it's up on Listen Again, it was in the first half hour or so of the programme.

I said in my last post that I would be seeking out opportunities to procrastinate, and LO! one has arrived in the form of this list of "things" from zinke

Association Meme: Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate (and being me, this is very elaborate!) on the subjects given.

She apparently associates me with the following:

Knuckledraggers
Fic
Bradley
Music
DFG

( alons-y! )

Right, well if you've made it to the end of that lot and feel like taking a turn, leave me a comment and I'll come up with your "five things".

I have spent most of this week telling myself NOT to slip into an American accent by mistake. I'm a natural mimic, and I have a good ear for accents - it's something I've been able to do (although I admit I've not yet mastered anything Welsh!) since I was a kid. But it's gotten me into trouble at times, when I've unconsciously started speaking to someone in "their" accent.

Although - and I know this sounds stupid - I've actually been thinking in an American accent. I mean, I hear the words I want to say in my head that way, if that makes any sense at all.

But I've done okay. I've managed to restrain myself and not piss anyone off.

BUT... tonight.

What did I do?

Yes, ladies and gents, I snarked Bradley Whitford. In an American accent.

In ny defence, I should point out that it was all his fault :-) (And he said I was pretty good!)

ETA - things have come to a pretty pass when the guy at the theatre box office starts calling you by your first name.

Is all I'm sayin'.

And in one of those weird quirks of fate, ( I just saw this accent meme going around and couldn't resist. )

I had intended to write this once I am able to string together a coherent sentence again.

However, I can't see that happening in the near future, so you'll have to put up with my incoherent rambling instead.

I'm sure I'll have a lot more to say on the subject (oh, yes I will!!) but for now, the bullet points of my afternoon with Mr Whitford :-)

1. The dimples, the grin and the sparkle in his eyes are utterly lethal. And being subject to the force of his personality is like being hit by a truck.
2. He's completely charming and very gracious. And funny.
4. Just thinking about that, I can't count ;-)
5. He's looking extremely good - very trim and incredibly fit. I was tempted to yell at him to get a new belt because he kept having to hoist his trousers up.
6. He still can't sit in a chair properly.
7. He really can do the splits!
8. When he sat down cross-legged on the carpet and then proceeded to wrap one leg around his other hip, I was in serious danger of imploding.
9. He's cute when he's being a spaz.
10. He's just as cute when he's trying very hard to say his next line instead of laughing at what he - and everyone else - is doing. I really thought he'd corpsed at one point.
11. Whoever decided that he should spend a considerable length of time with his back to the audience with his hands in his pockets... THANK YOU! :-)
12. The man can move. Although there were times I wished he'd stand still so I could concentrate on what he was actually saying!
13. I wasn't the only person in the audience who said "carpal tunnel" when one of the leading ladies grabbed him by the ear, or laughed knowingly when the maid asked him for a raise.
14. Rolled up shirtsleeves and wonky tie.
15. I'm SO glad we're going back on Thursday!!

Pics to follow.

When my brain has resumed normal service.

If it ever does.

Which is unlikely.

Guh.

I’ve been planning to do this for ages, but what with one thing and another, it’s taken me a while to get around to it.

But being the monomaniacal obsessed dedicated fangirl that I am, I forced myself to tackle the piles of paperwork and planning I have to do so that I could allow myself to go and stare at pretty things by way of reward.

( And anyone who knows me knows what that means… )

It is done and I did it - I posted a yummy picspam over at 24hrs_of_sorkin.

There's more to follow, so come over and part with some cash, okay? :)