Passionate Tales of a Blue Kitten

A better description of Slings & Arrows because I'm still obsessing about the show and think everyone should watch it:

Combining hilarious satire with heartfelt human drama, Slings & Arrows mines dramatic and comic gold from the personal and professional crises of a dysfunctional Canadian theatre troupe. Paul Gross stars as Geoffrey Tennant, the passionate but unstable artistic director of the New Burbage Theatre Festival. Haunted by the ghost of his predecessor and former mentor (Stephen Ouimette), he struggles to realize his creative vision while handling touchy actors, a jittery general manager (Mark McKinney), a pretentious guest director (Don McKellar), and his own tempestuous romance with the Festival's leading lady (Martha Burns). The backstage bedlam mirrors the onstage angst as Geoffrey directs three of Shakespeare's masterpieces - Hamlet, Macbeth, and King Lear - one in each season.

I left my parents' house around noon and then got home, put away some of my presents, and spent the rest of the day reading The Sweet Far Thing, the last of the Gemma Doyle trilogy by Libba Bray. Good books. Young adult historical fantasy. With a bit of romance. I love books that are such a mish-mash of genre. They satisfy me in a way that books of just one genre never quite manage to do. And Libba Bray does a great job of being unsentimental about the past. Sometimes, historical novels make you want to live in that time, but these also made me glad I'm a 21st century woman, not a 19th century one! And it was 819 pages long. I love these super-long young adult books. When I was in the actual age bracket for YA novels (which wasn't that long ago), they were so much shorter. Anyway, ( spoilers about the book )

I so enjoy these days when a new book by a favorite author comes out and I spend a day wrapped up in it. There's a new Princess Diaries out today, too, but series isn't one of my favorites of Meg Cabot's books, so I'll get it from the library. (Oooh, but her recent book Big Boned was my favorite so far of that series!)

So I just finished watching the (presumably) last episode of Journeyman. I thought it did a good job of giving a little bit of closure to the series. But the real reason I'm posting about it is that the last word of the show was my name and that made me feel very very special.

Also today, I watched the first season of Slings and Arrows, this Canadian show that Amazon describes as:

In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming general manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet -- the play that drove him mad.

Which is a bit of a boring description for a show that turned out to be fabulous. It made me laugh out loud and even almost made me cry, both rare events for me.

I got the first and second season from the library and I plan to watch the second tomorrow, but I just found out there's a third season! Darn it. I thought there were only two and I never would've started it if I knew there were more. I hate not being able to watch the entire story all at once. It drives me crazy.