"Gotham" May be Getting Just TOOOOO Bloody/Gorey/Creepy For Me

So I may not watch any more of it.
I like long-form tv about the struggle between good and evil, but not if it looks as if evil is going to win out in the soul of a character with whom you've come to sympathize.
But who knew that Miss Kringle was played by that guy from "White Collar"?

 

Joel Grey Deeply Dissappointed at Synod?

It seems so.

“The bishops writers at NCR are currently trapped in the old trendy theology they learned in the seminary or at America magazine. They are afraid of new ideas the concept of eternal Truth and disappointing the secular world and are not consulting with theological experts the people with whom I'd agree who could show them other options what I want. As a result, it is unlikely that new pastoral  approaches any heresy or sanctioning of practices inimical to Revealed Truth will be coming forth from this synod. 
“Some progressives aging hippies still hope that Pope Francis can somehow magically pull victory from the jaws of defeat sing a new church into being. I don’t think so."

"Hey, aren't you that Star Trek guy?"

Poor Wilfrid Laurier do you suppose he went through life being mis-recognized and asked for autographs? (Yeah, I know he died in 1919, but Time Travel. Duh.)

One more thing to love in our neighbors to the north.

Canadians are paying a strange sort of tribute to the late Leonard Nimoy — they're drawing his most famous character, Spock from "Star Trek," over a 19th-century politician on their banknotes....

But the Bank of Canada is unimpressed.

According to the BBC, Canada's central bank, which is responsible for the notes, confirmed that the practice was not illegal but said people should not be doing it anyway .

(Me, I already loved them for the high butterfat content of the little creamers they give you with tea or coffee up there.)

Is it my imagination, or could these two be....

.... sisters?

I love Amy Farrah Fowler, and CG is one of my favorite Jane Eyre's ever.

Maybe they could do a remake of the Patty Duke Show, and Gainesbourg could be Bialik's identical French cousin.

When Watching "The Judge" Can I Be Forgiven....

... for the fleeting thought, hey, Courtney Love cleans up really well?



(Of course, the subsequent knowledge that Vera Farmiga's chracter was being played by someone able to act was a dead giveaway that I was much mistaken.)

Lily Allen?

I came across a picture of a celebrity who was unknown to me. (this is a very common occurrance as I age, not in small part to my having a different definition of what being celebrated means than do some people....)

Anywho, she is a singer, (not of the kind of song to which I am wont to listen, I feel, [quite strongly even without actual aural evidence],) sprung from the loins of parents who are also in the business they call show.
She looks like this:

Is it any wonder that I jumped to the conclusion that she was the daughter of the marvelous Helen McCrory?

(I apologize if I have insulted one or the other of them as regards to age and when such a birth could or could not have occurred. I suspect Miss McCrory is more of an age to be a sister than a mother to the other woman, though YoungPeopleNowadays. And the lifestyle of the pop singer and the whorish presentation of many of them does encourage a sort of decay - look at that poor little girl from The Parent Trap remake, who, with a very little help from plastic surgery has morphed into someone of the vintage of Donatella Versace, or the mutton-oft-dressed-as-lamb pop singer surnamed Ciccone.

A make-up person who was something of a hair and cosmetic historian told me once, while painting my face, that pretty much up until the '50s young people were desperate to appear and act like "grown-ups", and then Youth Culture hit and adults began trying to look like children. Perhaps Lindsey Lohan simply represents a swing of the pendulum.)