Food, friends, and books, does it get better than this?

[fajrdrako]

What a great day. The latest good thing that happened was that an anonymous poster pointed me to this link of John Barrowman's show for this year's Children in Need. Which I hadn't known about.

And that was always my favourite scene in Risky Business, and Barrowman's song is terrific. I didn't know he wrote songs. "All over the place like a cheap suit."

Just the latest in a bunch of good things this morning. maaseru and I went to brunch at Farb's with josanpq and luncacy_gal. maaseru and I shared their Bread Pudding French Toast and just as well, too, I'm sure I've already exceeded my Weight Watchers points for the day with just half the dish. And it was incredibly good. josanpq surprised me with a late birthday present. What fun!

Then we crossed the street to Books on Beechwood, always a dangerous place. I was doing fine till my eye feel on The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and his Words, edited by A.D. Cousins. It was love at first sight, with a gorgeous covers showing the controversial Cobbe portrait. But I still might have had the self-control to leave it on the shelf if I hadn't opened to a page at random and seen a beautiful photograph of David Tennant as Berowne in Love's Labour's Lost from last year. There's another photo of him as Hamlet, and another photo from the Kenneth Branagh movie version of Love's Labour's Lost, which I love.

So I bought it. Exciting book #1.

Exciting book # 2 was The Costume History: Die Kostümgeschichte by August Racinet (Taschen, 2009). With a "special price" for the Taschen 25th anniversary. I looked at the medieval pages and almost wept for joy.