Question for well-traveled f-list

Have any of you been on a plane and bumped up to business class? 

If so, did they ask for ID?  Did they come to you by seat?  How did it work?

THIS IS IMPORTANT RESEARCH!  :-)

Question for well-traveled f-list

Have any of you been on a plane and bumped up to business class? 

If so, did they ask for ID?  Did they come to you by seat?  How did it work?

THIS IS IMPORTANT RESEARCH!  :-)

Sort of... meta?

My fic for the Holmes big bang is going to include Englishmen travelling America... which means I have to try to use my American imagination (as well as my American British-television-obsessed brain) to write how Englishemen might perceive America.  (Modern day... I pretty much only write Sherlock-verse now...)

This might be a terribly stupid idea, but I will press on!  (Though I suppose it's not much stupider than writing about Englishmen in England.  At least I'm personally familiar with the setting now!)

If you are on my f-list and are British, please feel free to comment with any random ideas that you have in your brain about America.  Things that strike you as particularly odd/puzzling/offensive/amusing about American culture.  Things that stick in your mind as particularly American.  That sort of thing.  :-)

Sort of... meta?

My fic for the Holmes big bang is going to include Englishmen travelling America... which means I have to try to use my American imagination (as well as my American British-television-obsessed brain) to write how Englishemen might perceive America.  (Modern day... I pretty much only write Sherlock-verse now...)

This might be a terribly stupid idea, but I will press on!  (Though I suppose it's not much stupider than writing about Englishmen in England.  At least I'm personally familiar with the setting now!)

If you are on my f-list and are British, please feel free to comment with any random ideas that you have in your brain about America.  Things that strike you as particularly odd/puzzling/offensive/amusing about American culture.  Things that stick in your mind as particularly American.  That sort of thing.  :-)

Music Meme!

I've been unpacking.  So now I am going to MEME!  :-)

I got this from litlover12 .

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

My letter was "S"

1.  "She Loves You" by the Beatles.  On the German recording it is "Sie Liebt Dich."  We used to have this really complicated inside joke about the German version in high school.  ;-)

2. "Se vuol ballare" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.  This singer is Feruccio Furlanetto, my favorite bass, and my favorite Figaro.  Embedding was disabled by request.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THV4GXppZE

3. "Summer, Highland Falls" by Billy Joel.  Probably my favorite Billy Joel song.  :-)

4. "Somebody Knows You Now"  by Brad Paisley.  I like Brad Paisley, and I like sad Country songs:

5. "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor.  I've been on a slight James Taylor kick recently.  I love this song, for the music and for the metaphor:

Music Meme!

I've been unpacking.  So now I am going to MEME!  :-)

I got this from litlover12 .

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload) 5 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

My letter was "S"

1.  "She Loves You" by the Beatles.  On the German recording it is "Sie Liebt Dich."  We used to have this really complicated inside joke about the German version in high school.  ;-)

2. "Se vuol ballare" from Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro.  This singer is Feruccio Furlanetto, my favorite bass, and my favorite Figaro.  Embedding was disabled by request.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2THV4GXppZE

3. "Summer, Highland Falls" by Billy Joel.  Probably my favorite Billy Joel song.  :-)

4. "Somebody Knows You Now"  by Brad Paisley.  I like Brad Paisley, and I like sad Country songs:

5. "Sweet Baby James" by James Taylor.  I've been on a slight James Taylor kick recently.  I love this song, for the music and for the metaphor: