Smallville: Vessel...

What did I think? I thought it was very sexy. <lj-cut text="Beyond that...> Beyond that, I'm not sure. I liked Lex as Zod, looming in a dark leather trench coat. I liked the bits with Lionel and Martha. I wish Lois wasn't around, and I wish Lex was written the way I would write him so he had a consistent personality, when not possessed by Zod... Though frankly, I don't mind him being power-hungry and immoral, I just want him to be power-hungry and immoral in a certain way. I know that if I want these stories, I'll have to write them myself. I love it that Clark couldn't kill Lex. I love it that the Clark/Lex/Lana love/revenge triangle is thick enough to cut. And Clark in the Phantom Zone... that's so reminiscent of old <i>Adventure Comics</i> stories that I like it, too. But I have reservations. The attraction of the show is a double-edged sword now and I don't trust the characters or the storylines. I'm as much in love with Lex as ever, but I have to keep reminding myself that this isn't my Lex any longer. <br>

Amphibious Thing...

Amphibious Thing by Lucy Moore is a biography of Lord Hervey.

And who, you might ask, is Lord Hervey? Well, I didn't know before I read this book, since he's hardly a biggie of history. He was an English celebrity of the mid-eighteenth century: a courtier, a politician, a man of letters with enough skill an polish to be known as a wit but not the genius that would get him into our general history books, or our English lit courses. He lived at the time of Alexander Pope and Voltaire and Sir Robert Walpole.

I read it because I'm interested in bisexual people, and Hervey was bisexual. ( This biography... )