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Nov. 9th, 2011 02:10 pmToday is complicated for no reason I can fathom. It's possible I'm getting dumber as I get older. On the one hand I didn't fall over when I came in out of the rain this morning, but on the other that's because I dedicated the walk from the door to the elevators to thinking about walking.
Before I forget, because Lulu likes to taunt me, if you buy books on lulu from now through November 11th you can use "veterans305" in the US and "earlyshopperuk305" in the UK (thanks Alicia!) to get 20% off your purchase.
Given my increased circumstances I decided I could spring the eight dollars to get Netflix again, so I've been watching this PBS documentary about the Medici family. It's narrated by someone who either naturally has a sinister-sounding Italian accent or is doing a brilliant job of faking it, but either way every time he says something particularly innocent in his Sinister Italian Accent ("The David was the most beautiful statue the Florentine world had ever known") I crack up.
I imagine this documentary to be riddled with inaccuracies or at the very best omissions; episode one ends with the death of Cosimo and episode two begins with Lorenzo's ascention to power, managing to completely avoid explaining whether Lorenzo was Cosimo's son or grandson (latter) and what the name of his father was. But I guess Piero, Lorenzo's father, who ruled for only five years and was known as Piero the Gouty (thank you Wikipedia) doesn't make good Sinister Italian Accent Narration fodder.
At any rate, when I'm done watching I will know more about the Medicis than the absolutely nothing I knew about them before, so there's that.
I wonder if PBS has done a vague documentary on the Borgias narrated in a sinister accent of some sort.
Before I forget, because Lulu likes to taunt me, if you buy books on lulu from now through November 11th you can use "veterans305" in the US and "earlyshopperuk305" in the UK (thanks Alicia!) to get 20% off your purchase.
Given my increased circumstances I decided I could spring the eight dollars to get Netflix again, so I've been watching this PBS documentary about the Medici family. It's narrated by someone who either naturally has a sinister-sounding Italian accent or is doing a brilliant job of faking it, but either way every time he says something particularly innocent in his Sinister Italian Accent ("The David was the most beautiful statue the Florentine world had ever known") I crack up.
I imagine this documentary to be riddled with inaccuracies or at the very best omissions; episode one ends with the death of Cosimo and episode two begins with Lorenzo's ascention to power, managing to completely avoid explaining whether Lorenzo was Cosimo's son or grandson (latter) and what the name of his father was. But I guess Piero, Lorenzo's father, who ruled for only five years and was known as Piero the Gouty (thank you Wikipedia) doesn't make good Sinister Italian Accent Narration fodder.
At any rate, when I'm done watching I will know more about the Medicis than the absolutely nothing I knew about them before, so there's that.
I wonder if PBS has done a vague documentary on the Borgias narrated in a sinister accent of some sort.
