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He's everywhere.
[And that top picture is really big.]
No credit to me for these pics.

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This autumn's entertainment is shaping up nicely.  Tom Hiddleston.  The Hollow Crown on PBS.  And Thor 2.

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I'm back!  On Monday, we celebrated my mom's 90th birthday in North Carolina.  HIC visited his mom in Scotland earlier this summer as well.  Here he is with his mom in a photo he shared on Instagram.

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Taking a week off to spend with family and friends. Adios!

[from the Comic-con 2013 program]

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Who doesn't love a man in a safety harness?   James May mounts the Bridge of No Return on the 'Meccano' episode of his 'Toy Stories' series.  My real-life husband and I watched it together last night.  Bonding over basic engineering principles is always good.

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Classic Moments with Severus Snape:  It's all about talking to the kids.

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I'm going to see this in the cinema here in San Diego on October 17th!

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[Lovely photo editing here, especially the bottom one as that jacket started off red!--Not mine, I don't know how to do that stuff!]

I'm looking forward to seeing Tom Hiddleston in 'Coriolanus' via some sort of digital presentation at UCLA next February.  My daughter is living up there now, and it will be a joy to see it with her.  But a wider set of bookings has recently been released, and now the a performance will be shown in one of my local theatres a few days later!

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Henry Ian Cusick and the effect he has on me.

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Today we're going to play Mad Libs with clues from the following photographs:

"Sometimes I feel like a ____________{animal}'s _______{piece of anatomy}."

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This is such a stretch for a connection to Britain, I can hardly believe I'm writing about it, but it's just the best thing.....This is a rendering done during the 18-month planning process that took place before the Andy Warhol Bridge in Pittsburgh became the site a very large yarn bombing on Monday.  Fan art?  Heck yeah, for fans of bridges, community spirit, knitting, public art.....and I love this simple, expressive rendering.  No wonder the knitters were able to sell the city on the idea.  British?  I don't know, I imagine Andy Warhol spent at least one night in London at some point.....

Read more and see more "coverage" [yes, I said it] of the event here:  http://news.yahoo.com/knitters-cover-pittsburghs-warhol-bridge-yarn-151647095.html

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Feeling a bit anxious today, and this photo of James May seems kind of soothing.  Oh, the picture is too small and you can't see the color of his eyes, you say?  Then try clicking on this one--

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Photo was captioned "Alan Rickman attends the annual Raisa Gorbachev Foundation Party at Stud House, Hampton Court on June 5, 2010 in London, England."

Stud House.

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Checking in on Ben with this picture I found on tumblr long ago.  What do you think--was it a friend at a party [or a stranger at a party] or a passing fan or a lurking professional who took this one?  Was Mr. C okay with it or wanting someone to f-off? His face is so....unreadable.

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Nerd HQ's Conversations for a Cause were soooo nicely filmed that I figure watching one on Youtube is almost better than being there [she says because she wasn't there].  Here's Tom Hiddleston's in it's entirety.  It's over an hour, and I haven't finished watching it myself, but when I left off he was talking about his time in West Africa with Unicef.

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Some similarities I noticed in my archives when I fan-girled over Humphrey Bogart a couple of years ago.

More about Bogie here: http://janela-fictionmostly.blogspot.com/search/label/humphrey%20bogart

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The best and the worst thing about being a Doctor Who fan right now:  it hurts a bit.

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I love this artist I just found on the Japanese artists' site pixiv, Shimizu.  I love everything about their style right down to the patina on the sketchbook.  You'll love it too, especially if you are a fan of Top Gear, Doctor Who, Sherlock...I saw at least one great sketch of Tom Hiddleston as well.  Check it out--Shimizu's work can be found here--

http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=7439655

I'm not sure how far you can get without creating an account.  I did, and it was worth it.

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Bring on Monday! I'm posting these great pics of James May by Neale Haynes today to prepare you for some cool fan art and a fantastic artist I found on pixiv.com that you'll see tomorrow.

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Maybe he's not the next Doctor....but he'll always be our Professor.

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I think this is James May's actual garage and the adjacent building that he owns.  He has certainly hung out there long enough with all of his toys.

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I didn't see the secret clip from Thor 2 that was shown at Comic-con, but Disney XD [which my kid watches constantly] has been showing an extended trailer for it.  I can't wait until November.

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More lovely pictures of Ian working on the set of 'Dress'.  I can't wait to see this short film [how do you get to see short films?], and I am so excited by Ian's aspirations to be an independent film maker.