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[tree_and_leaf]

Marks and Sparks has got their Christmas decorations up. Let's take a moment to ponder the full horror of that, shall we?

Sometimes I hate the modern world so very, very much. The fact that I know perfectly well that, being what I am, I'd have hated any given century even more is very little consolation!

In other news, it is Reformation Day/ commemoration of Martin Luther. I've always really liked Luther, despite everything, and not merely for his prose style (though that helps). So have a gratuitous Luther quotation:

"If I knew that the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant my apple tree."

The mixture of gloomily staring into the darkness and yet refusing to stop hoping is, somehow, very Luther.

Also: relating to that other holiday taking place today - I've just noticed that there is a row of carved pumpkins on the MCR piano. Criminally, I forgot my camera, but the one with the college crest (sort of - they haven't managed to difference it properly) is particularly impressive.

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[sangerin.livejournal.com]

"Kommissar Rex" - aka Inspector Rex, an (old) Austrian show that we get out here and that has a cult following in Australia. It's cheesy as all get out and my parents and I love it to death.

[tree_and_leaf]

Ah, I did wonder - but I don't think we ever had that here...

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Be grateful for small blessings. It's a show with an adorable superdog, and it's exactly as cheesy as that description sounds -- like way override Cheddar festering in a dorm refrigerator...