Don’tGoMuchForCoffee

Thanks for the tag @jessieren and @fanficrocks

1. Origin of My Blog's Name: 

The simplest version is that it comes from a mash-up of my  interest in Greek tragedies—Antigone in particular—with the poem by Hugh Mearns called "Antigonish" that begins: "Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn't there / He wasn't there again today / I wish, I wish he'd go away…" After starting to use the name online, I then discovered that the poem itself is named after the town of Antigonish in Nova Scotia, Canada.

2. "I'll always order this food": 

Anything in noodle form.

3. Most Overused Emoji:

I speak emoji like a toddler—meaning not well and I have like three words.  😂  is probably the most frequent.

4. My Current Comfort Movie, Show, and Book: 

Movies: My Neighbor Totoro, Raising Arizona, Young Frankenstein

TV: Endeavour, The Hour, Schitt's Creek, Murderbot, Yes Minister

Books: Depends on the kind of comfort I need but, usually genre fiction and mysteries—especially Dorothy Sayers. Also love Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Pollifax series when it comes to comfort. Other things?  Terry Pratchett—especially City Watch and Tiffany Aching series and Jonathan Stroud's Lockwood & Co. series.

1. Origin of My Blog's Name:   Morse is super confusing when it comes to coffee. He drinks coffee, he doesn’t drink coffee, he seeks out coffee, he asks people out for coffee, and then he tells Joan he doesn’t really go much for coffee. Anyway, it’s a direct quote from the show. It’s not an earth shattering reference or anything. It’s not brilliant. I love coffee. I just thought it was a funny name for a blog. 

2. I’ll always order this food:

It isn’t sexy, but the answer has got to be a lamb shank. Yes, it’s a couple days after spring started and we’re talking about a heavy, low and slow braised meat, but I hit that bitch up wherever I come across it. 

See also: dim sum

Also see also: Vietnamese food

3. Most Overused Emoji:

I never use emojis. I’m in a group text with two girlfriends, one of whom is recently (almost) divorced and is having a lot of sex. We occasionally use the eggplant emoji. That’s all I can contribute here. 

4. My Current Comfort Movie, Book or TV Show:

Ted Lasso. Ted Lasso. Grey’s Anatomy. Downton Abbey. Occasionally, GoT. Oh, Ted Lasso.

It might not be cool to say this, but my comfort rereads are anything by Mark Kurlansky, and every series of books I knew by heart when I was a child. The Prydain Chronicles, all the Anne of Green Gables books, Little House on the Prairie. Also, the single classics like the Phantom tollbooth. I’m 57, and I reread them regularly. I have no shame about this. 

Alien. I know what you’re thinking. How can that be a comfort movie? Well, it is. My father took me to see it in the movie theater in 1979. I was 10. Yes, he was crazy. Also, Jaws. Similar story. Galaxy Quest. Star Wars OG. Lots of others. 

5. Song on Repeat

I couldn’t even pick a genre on repeat. I listen to a lot. Vivaldi? Nina Simone? Barbra Streisand? Skrillex? I want it all.

If I had to choose a single song, it would probably be one of those ‘songs of summer’ like Uptown Funk or something maybe, for this exercise, Lizzo‘s “Good As Hell “? 

6. My Current Hyperfixation

I wish I had the emotional bandwidth for a hyperfixation.

7. Oddly Specific Thing That Brings Me Joy:

I’m feeling a little joyless ATM.

8. What smell makes me happy?

I’m with @too-antigonish. Not really much for smells. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more and more sensitive to any extraneous smells. Even perfumes that I loved and wore for years like Clinique Happy and various Jo Malone fragrances have begun to wage war with me. Other than certain food smells, I love when the ground starts to thaw and spring begins to take place. That smell of damp earth and sunshine and things growing. Also, I love the smell of a campfire, if the smoke doesn’t stink up my hair and I can move a reasonable distance away from it. 

9. Something I Loved as a Kid and Secretly Still Do.

See above. Although it’s not a secret. Now leave me alone, I want to see if Jo and Laurie work out. 

10. My phone wallpaper right now.

Most of my wallpaper is photographs that I took myself. I will share a few with you.

11. Early Bird or Night Owl

Unfortunately, early bird. I wish I could sleep later. 

12. If you work, what is your profession, and do you love it? 

I work. I work much too much. I don’t know if it’s technically a profession. I’m an arts administrator, typically in a nonprofit setting. Right now I work booking touring Broadway across the country. I currently hate it. I don’t really hate it, I just happen to hate it right now. 

I can’t think of anybody else to tag.



Written by Allan Bennett and directed by Nicholas Hytner...

And it's about music...

First a reminder of our current predicament... namely the no curl Betrayal crop. Bonus points for scruff and the blue shirt, very many minus points for the khaki 'shacket'

And yet we had such promising potential of curls only a few short weeks ago at the read through (I'm ignoring that this look has a feel of 'I'm late and just threw a bucket of gel on my head before I left the house')

And so here begins a brief (actually not very brief) history of the Evans curl inventory

Short short - did someone let him loose with the clippers or is his barber a psychopath who has no time for curls..

2. Short and gelled but with some curl escape potential (bonus points for beard, additional bonus points for blue uniform/shirt/suit)

3. Endeavour Pilot/very early Endeavour - admittedly its not horrendously short and it does have some curl potential but who the hell styled his hair like that...

4. Short(ish) with bonus scruff. I can forgive the lack of full of curls here... for.... reasons... (@season-77 may be able to expand on said 'reasons')

5. Curl-escape potential achieved (also bonus blue linen shirt and just *look* at him...)

6. Curls curls curls... glorious glorious curls... shorter curls, longer curls... any kind of curl (preferably slightly unkempt and falling over his forehead...)

7. Weaponised Bedhead (minus points for dirty:hot psycho, very very many bonus points for Venice Evans/Morse...)

8. Curly hair of despair

9. Hot mess curls

10. Honourable mention category - aka is anyone even looking at his hair at this point... (well, yes, and the curls still make it better but y'know...)

While I think most of us would happily watch him sporting anything from barely-there hair to riotous curls, many of us have a marked preference for the latter.

#TheScarfIsImportant

Fermentation for Fidgety Finger Friday.

Please enjoy the multiple finger fidgets, under glass, if you please.

If you can't do angst and suffering, then Endeavour is not the show for you. But that doesn't mean you can't be thrilled when something a little different happens.

I've said about a million times, "Oh, this is the moment when it hooked me," but seriously--the first time I saw this smile, I was done for. Talk about an entire face lighting up...

Wishing this guy many of these smiles (and thanking him for many in return) on his birthday.