The bunny hutch needs cleaning...
May. 21st, 2006 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vulgarweed...and I was DROWNED in real-work (job-type) work today. Woe! *staples wrist to forehead*
Went to see The Da Vinci Code with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quantum_witch and her hubby yesterday out in Norridge (yay for suburban excursions still within the CTA's reach!). Good time!
My expectations for the flick were fairly low - I'm one of the 26 people on the planet who frankly hasn't even cracked open the book. (Though I have read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, so I kind of knew the gist.) I found it a very enjoyable history/conspiracy thriller-ish thing as a movie, though, and anything can be made fun to watch by Ian McKellen playing fifteen different kinds of sly and crazy.
It didn't bunny me, thankfully. However, the History Channel thing on "The Spear of Jesus" did. Ah, shades of ol' Trevor Ravenscroft, the conspiracy theorist with the Rowlingesque name. (It's a Horcrux, I'll betcha).
Have a GO historical crack drabble, on the house:
Title: The Spin of Destiny
Words: 100, excluding title and dateline.
Rating: G
Warnings: The worst fashion incident of Aziraphale's existence, which is saying something.
AN: This uses the first line of this week's![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
go100 challenge, though not any of the words, so it's not actually eligible.
“Would you believe me if I told you?”
“Probably, try me.” Crowley cackled. The uniform was pretty sharp, but black was not Aziraphale’s colour.
“Secret mission, I’m afraid.”
“It’s the spear, isn’t it? You’d been meaning to check it out for centuries, it was sitting around all this time…you never got around to it….and now….”
Aziraphale looked rueful. “Well, the Emperors…and Napoleon…”
Crowley settled the matter with a rakish spin of the famous blade on his fingertip. “It’s utterly fake. I could stab myself with it and it wouldn’t hurt.”
“But--the risk you took…”
Crowley shrugged. “Let Hitler have it.”
***
The Spear of Destiny at Wikipedia.
Went to see The Da Vinci Code with
quantum_witch and her hubby yesterday out in Norridge (yay for suburban excursions still within the CTA's reach!). Good time! My expectations for the flick were fairly low - I'm one of the 26 people on the planet who frankly hasn't even cracked open the book. (Though I have read Holy Blood, Holy Grail, so I kind of knew the gist.) I found it a very enjoyable history/conspiracy thriller-ish thing as a movie, though, and anything can be made fun to watch by Ian McKellen playing fifteen different kinds of sly and crazy.
It didn't bunny me, thankfully. However, the History Channel thing on "The Spear of Jesus" did. Ah, shades of ol' Trevor Ravenscroft, the conspiracy theorist with the Rowlingesque name. (It's a Horcrux, I'll betcha).
Have a GO historical crack drabble, on the house:
Title: The Spin of Destiny
Words: 100, excluding title and dateline.
Rating: G
Warnings: The worst fashion incident of Aziraphale's existence, which is saying something.
AN: This uses the first line of this week's
go100 challenge, though not any of the words, so it's not actually eligible.“Would you believe me if I told you?”
“Probably, try me.” Crowley cackled. The uniform was pretty sharp, but black was not Aziraphale’s colour.
“Secret mission, I’m afraid.”
“It’s the spear, isn’t it? You’d been meaning to check it out for centuries, it was sitting around all this time…you never got around to it….and now….”
Aziraphale looked rueful. “Well, the Emperors…and Napoleon…”
Crowley settled the matter with a rakish spin of the famous blade on his fingertip. “It’s utterly fake. I could stab myself with it and it wouldn’t hurt.”
“But--the risk you took…”
Crowley shrugged. “Let Hitler have it.”
***
The Spear of Destiny at Wikipedia.
