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The Cake Was Not a Lie!

But I am still alive! Still chugging!

In the past month (!), obviously fell a little out of the habit of daily posts on minutiae, but that’s not to say things weren’t getting done. Now cocktailist.club has Google Maps/Places info thanks to the (very straightforward) API, and discoverit.arielity.net is up-to-speed as a single-page Backbone/Rails app.
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Penny Dreadful(s)

I’ve been fairly faithfully following the new Showtime series (well somewhat new, now into its second season) Penny Dreadful. And it has a really spectacular cast of actors–Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, and even the relatively less known names have done very well–and great production value and set direction…but somehow it just seems to lack the magic stuff.

But a bit of background: the show is named Penny Dreadful after really cheap, mass-produced fictional serials of the 1800s, often written about extraordinary subject matter intended to elicit illicit (ha) thrills. Wiki summarizes them as such:
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