henna day post
Oct. 11th, 2009 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaIt's Henna Day, and I have the drippy henna on my head. In about half an hour I'll rinse it out. This weekend I've been making good progress on chapter 18. Also I gobbled down Eileen Davidson's second soap opera mystery, Dial Emmy for Murder (which I liked a lot better than her first one, Death in Daytime). I wonder why there are so many soap opera mysteries out there.
I managed to find some new black ankle boots at Aerosoles, and bought some cinnamon jeans at Ann Taylor and some Clinique products at Macy's, which yielded me a Clinique gift bag.
I've watched some Dark Shadows and that masterpiece of 1974 paranoia, The Parallax View, which features Earl Hindman (Bob Reid from Ryan's Hope) as a psycho cop who gets into a barroom brawl with Warren Beatty. Speaking of Ryan's Hope, I'm looking forward to this week's episodes. Right now we're on Mary Ryan Deathwatch. I'm not sure if Kate Mulgrew could've done a better job selling Mary's stupid actions--i.e., following a drug dealer into a warehouse, watching the guys cutting the goods, and lingering at a phone booth right outside the crime lair. Mary always did demonstrate a lot of hubris, but I can't help remembering how she laid into Siobhan during the rent strike for not showing more common sense in the face of danger. Still, it's chilling stuff. Watching Mary's final scene with little Ryan at Weehawken Street made my blood run cold, knowing what was coming. Nicolette Goulet did a horrible job with her bugged-out eyes behind a newspaper as Mary watched the Man With the Green Hat and Duke at the coffeehouse, but, as I recall, her death scenes are really fine.
I might go to Skylight this afternoon, though I don't REALLY need to buy more books. But, on the other hand, more books!!
I managed to find some new black ankle boots at Aerosoles, and bought some cinnamon jeans at Ann Taylor and some Clinique products at Macy's, which yielded me a Clinique gift bag.
I've watched some Dark Shadows and that masterpiece of 1974 paranoia, The Parallax View, which features Earl Hindman (Bob Reid from Ryan's Hope) as a psycho cop who gets into a barroom brawl with Warren Beatty. Speaking of Ryan's Hope, I'm looking forward to this week's episodes. Right now we're on Mary Ryan Deathwatch. I'm not sure if Kate Mulgrew could've done a better job selling Mary's stupid actions--i.e., following a drug dealer into a warehouse, watching the guys cutting the goods, and lingering at a phone booth right outside the crime lair. Mary always did demonstrate a lot of hubris, but I can't help remembering how she laid into Siobhan during the rent strike for not showing more common sense in the face of danger. Still, it's chilling stuff. Watching Mary's final scene with little Ryan at Weehawken Street made my blood run cold, knowing what was coming. Nicolette Goulet did a horrible job with her bugged-out eyes behind a newspaper as Mary watched the Man With the Green Hat and Duke at the coffeehouse, but, as I recall, her death scenes are really fine.
I might go to Skylight this afternoon, though I don't REALLY need to buy more books. But, on the other hand, more books!!
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Date: 2009-10-12 12:54 am (UTC)Claire Labine must've been royally pissed at having to write for Mary after Mulgrew left, judging by the sendoff she finally gave the character. First she finds out her husband has the hots for her sister, then she's horribly murdered by the mob!