It's Cheap Chocolate Day Eve...

And my traditional puppy and kitty picture has gone missing!  Alas!  Do not mock!

Though, if it weren't Cheap Chocolate Day Eve, I would be posting a long rant about how The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo would be much more enjoyable with about half the wordcount, and if Mikael's level of self-insertion were reduced to at least Bella Swann levels.  Also, uhm, it's great that Larsson does seem to have a fairly developed idea about women, violence, and social views of such and is pretty critical about it, but, uhm, it'd be way better if he didn't insist on writing them like they're a fascinating but unfathomable object under a microscope and completely Other-ing any attempt at their POV.  Also, intelligent people can, in fact, believe in a higher power, and expressing an interest in religion does not mean you are being brainwashed by a cult.  Oh, and no, Leviticus is not the only book in the Bible.  But I suspect the Harriet mystery is going to be at least partly resolved in a way I like.  (Also, I hope he got paid for product placement, especially when product decriptions  seem to literally be lifted from catalogues.  You could have a drinking game with "iBook.")

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Earlier today (like, 2 hours ago) I was watching an episode of Fringe and wondering why this cop who died in the first 5 minutes, and then I realized that it was Malone from Lost World, only 10 years older, and went' "What a coinkidink! I got a Lost World disc from NetFlix today!"  And then I finished the ep and read a bit and made dinner and turned on Lost World, and this guy ran out of the woods and looked familiar AND IT IS WALTER BISHOP FROM FRINGE, TEN YEARS YOUNGER!

And I went "..."

Also, this ep of Lost World has them finding Jack the Ripper's knife and Malone picks it up not knowing what it is, and it basically gives him Jack the Ripper's memories and he's traumatized by, you know, suddenly having memories of murdering and mutilating women, and Challenger...bullies him into doing it again in the name of science.  Just when I was disliking Challenger a bit less, too...

ETA:  Veronica just clocked JtR when he got fresh, then he pulled a gun and she beat him up.  This is way better than the episode of Babylon 5 that's basically JtR torturing Delenn the whole episode! 

ETA 2:  Now Walter is JtR.  Or one is possessed by the knife.  This twist is startlingly appropriate.  (This episode is basically and excuse to put the cast in Victorian clothing on gloomy streets...)

ETA 3:  Both characters were JtR!  And this episode was literally Veronica and Marguerite (mostly Veronica) beating up JtR.  And at one point, Walter revealed he had taken all the bellets out of Marguerite'as gun and was all "Ha Ha! You are helpless now!" and so she clubbed him with it.  A lot.  This is officially my favorite "Let's solve the mystery of Jack the Ripper!" episode ever.  (Though, I typically dislike them.  A lot.)