Sushi For Breakfast

Day 284 I made sushi again this evening:



The verdict: again not bad at all, need to ensure rolls are wrapped tightly enough. Use a serrated knife to slice rolls. Also found that Philadelphia is a nice idea but can be tricky, and sundried tomato is totally awesome in sushi. This makes 18 pieces for dinner (not counting all the bits I've picked at) and 20 pieces for lunch tomorrow (that sounds a lot but most of them are small).

Am now watching Swing Kids, cos I wanted (a) Robert Sean Leonard; (b) awesome cool music; and (c) emo-RSL.

You may recall my mentioning recently in my LJ about a Christmas surprise I was planning on springing on you at some point before the festivities. The waiting is over - I wanted to get this done before Christmas so that anyone spending Christmas away from the Internet (not me, too scary) would have the chance to download these before going LOS.

'These' are five bundles of articles from various news sources in the UK and North America, which I gathered together earlier this year from my newly-discovered sources (thank you, University!). There's a bundle each for Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Fry & Laurie (ie a separate bundle for the two of them together), Robert Sean Leonard, and John Sessions. All the bundles are zipped up in .ZIP files, and the individual articles are in PDFs, with a couple of JPGs in the Hugh Laurie bundle.

The articles vary in length from a single paragraph to several pages, and are a mix of reviews, interviews, profiles and a few brief mentions. There are a few reviews where the writer wasn't too impressed with the overall product, or some major aspect of it, but showers praise on the bundle-subject. Also, these articles tend to be the whole article as published at the time, so you may have to scroll down or flip through to another page to find the review of the TV show or play featuring our bundle-subject.

You may have seen some of these before, in particular the recent items, but they go back a long way. For example, there's a couple of reports covering Hugh's rowing career (he's referred to as 'James Laurie' in some texts, the reporters logically assuming his first firstname is the one he uses), and there's a few about a young teenage actor from Ridgewood, NJ called Robert Leonard.

I hope you like them. These are all on Sendspace, if anyone has problems with Sendspace, let me know of a host you don't have problems with and I'll re-upload.

• Fry & Laurie - 1.03MB, 12 files Download


• Hugh Laurie - 8.27MB, 105 files Download


• John Sessions - 2.13MB, 19 files Download


• Robert Sean Leonard - 2.24MB, 32 files Download


• Stephen Fry - 5.08MB, 41 files Download

If you missed my posting a couple of Christmases ago of extracts from my Fry & Laurie scrapbook, you can see the articles here. This is a real scrapbook of articles I started collecting in the mid-1980s in a ringbinder, scanned for your viewing pleasure. Happy Christmas!

My latest package from Amazon included the DVD of Swing Kids, which I watched last night.

( Cut for spoilerage )

The reviews for Swing Kids weren't all completely enthusiastic. But if you're a RSL fan, it's a must-see. It makes you realise how much the House production & writing people have, with Hugh Laurie and Robert Sean Leonard in major roles in their show. Such enormous talent, the best there is of their generation. I hope they make good use of it.

A selection of 32 assorted icons, many of which have been hanging around on my hard drive for a while:

1-8 Father Ted
9-16 Landscapes (stock photos)
17-20 Robert Sean Leonard
21-32 Space Shuttle Program

Teasers:




( Here they be )

Please comment & credit if taking, and please don't alter or hotlink. Enjoy!