Bleak

• Quotation of the day: "How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away" --Andrew Lloyd Webber, when asked what is a good song for Simon and Paula
• I finished Bleak House by Dickens. It was one of the best things I have ever read. I laughed (a lot), I cried, and afterwards I felt generally beat about the head and shoulders. Now I have moved on to watching the BBC adaptation of Bleak House, in which Gillian Anderson plays Lady Dedlock. I keep poking myself in incredulity and asking myself, "Could that really be the same actress who plays Scully?" Then I calmly and superiorily answer myself, "Well duh." I am a fan of Gillian's work. Here is a 13-second clip from the show. It cuts off at the end, halfway through the word "myself", but you get the idea.

Video of the day: Hugh Laurie in Girl From Rio