Tuesday and A NEW BIRD
May. 15th, 2012 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nightdog_barksYou guys! This is what was in our backyard today! I'd been hearing a new bird for the last few days, and I finally spotted this beautiful girl in a tree. How do I know it was a girl? Because ANOTHER ONE brought her a long strand of grass and then they boinked. :-D
Srsly, they are gorgeous birds -- a lovely pearl-grey all over, and with ferocious claws, so I was really surprised to see they are insectivores. Their call sounds kind of like a rusty grocery-cart wheel. I sure hope these two stay around.
I'm still thinking about last night's House, yes.
The more I think about it, the more it reminds me of the Richard/Clarissa storyline from Stephen Daldry's great movie The Hours. Richard is played by Ed Harris, Clarissa by Meryl Streep. They are life-long friends, with all the love and heartbreak that entails, and now Richard is dying. Clarissa wants him to live long enough to attend a literary event in his honor (Richard is a famous writer). Richard is ready to let go, but he doesn't want Clarissa to be sad, and at one point he asks her, "Would you be angry if I died?" In the end she says, "You do have good days still. You know you do," and he replies, "Not really. I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true." It's all about learning when to leave, and how love expresses itself in so many ways, some of them unexpected and some of them not what we would wish, but love nonetheless.
There are a couple of other good posts I've seen on this episode (and beyond) -- two of them are bydeelaundry, here, and here, especially for this comment:
Wilson is not acting rationally on this at all; something deep inside him that is broken is pushing him to this decision. We're not supposed to think Wilson's decision is right. The journey House was on was one to determine if he could give up being right in favor of being there for Wilson.
There's also an excellent discussion going on at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
sick_wilson, with some thoughtful and considered comments.
TL;DR, I'm looking forward to the finale next week.
Started reading Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers. It is violent and sometimes funny, not unlike Pulp Fiction.
Also, the great Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes has passed away, aged 83.
That's all I've got at the moment.
Srsly, they are gorgeous birds -- a lovely pearl-grey all over, and with ferocious claws, so I was really surprised to see they are insectivores. Their call sounds kind of like a rusty grocery-cart wheel. I sure hope these two stay around.
I'm still thinking about last night's House, yes.
The more I think about it, the more it reminds me of the Richard/Clarissa storyline from Stephen Daldry's great movie The Hours. Richard is played by Ed Harris, Clarissa by Meryl Streep. They are life-long friends, with all the love and heartbreak that entails, and now Richard is dying. Clarissa wants him to live long enough to attend a literary event in his honor (Richard is a famous writer). Richard is ready to let go, but he doesn't want Clarissa to be sad, and at one point he asks her, "Would you be angry if I died?" In the end she says, "You do have good days still. You know you do," and he replies, "Not really. I mean, it's kind of you to say so, but it's not really true." It's all about learning when to leave, and how love expresses itself in so many ways, some of them unexpected and some of them not what we would wish, but love nonetheless.
There are a couple of other good posts I've seen on this episode (and beyond) -- two of them are by
deelaundry, here, and here, especially for this comment:Wilson is not acting rationally on this at all; something deep inside him that is broken is pushing him to this decision. We're not supposed to think Wilson's decision is right. The journey House was on was one to determine if he could give up being right in favor of being there for Wilson.
There's also an excellent discussion going on at
sick_wilson, with some thoughtful and considered comments.TL;DR, I'm looking forward to the finale next week.
Started reading Patrick DeWitt's The Sisters Brothers. It is violent and sometimes funny, not unlike Pulp Fiction.
Also, the great Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes has passed away, aged 83.
That's all I've got at the moment.