Rome: Season 2 At Last!!!

It has been two years since the last episode of season 1 was aired: Ceasar was dead, Vorenus was told of Niobe's affair and Pullo found love...awwww....well season 2 picks up where it left off so Ceasar is still dead, Vorenus gets to see Niobe jump to her death again, but this time puts a curse on his family to all damnation and Pullo's still in love.Awwww. Atia is still Atia forever at odds with Servilia. She nearly gets her wish (a dead Servilia) when when she nearly gets poisoned and had her abducted and raped and humiliated and I'm getting ahead of the story. Anyway, I compiled a few of the best lines from the new season:

Atia to Octavia: "I really appreciate these little chats we have in between your drug binges." Only Atia can deliver this line with aplomb.

Antony to Octavian: "You are a ferocious little c*nt ... with a pen." Best line ever.

Vorenus: "These are my daughters. Redeemed from slavery. The eldest has been prostituted. The boy is my wife's child with another man." FYI.

Atia to Octavian: " I spit on the pig Antony for leading me astray." Or is it the other way around???

Rome. Nudity, gore and more nudity. Only from HBO.

False Sense of Spring

Last weekend, I was lulled into a false sense that spring had come early this year. It felt like late summer or early autumn, whichever you prefer, not too warm to be sweating or not to cold to be wearing pants. So I was doing my laundry in my veranda( and by veranda, the small space where my cramped washing machine is stored),wearing shorts and short-sleeved shirt enjoying the cool breeze of "supposedly" early spring, chucking my winter wear into a big box marked as "Winter stuff". The next day, after Costco shopping, we walked in the parking lot with the comment that "it felt like Christmastime in the Philippines". I slept that night with the veranda door open to let the cool breeze in. The next morning, it was freezing cold again.The next day, flurries of snowflakes fell from the sky. Apparently it was not spring yet.Oh well...