Miss Chrissy and The Man have begun watching a new TV show, and we Whimsies are watching along with them, even though there are some moments when Tessie and Trixie will cover their eyes, because it’s too scary for them. We’re all watching Sleepy Hollow, and I must admit, the Headless Horseman is a fright. And I also don’t like some of the supernatural villains. But yet somehow I can’t stop watching.
And why? Well, that can be easily explained by the title of this entry. I have a new boyfriend! I absolutely love, love, love Ichabod Crane! Yes, Ichabod is a terrible name, and gratefully nobody calls him that, they all call him Crane, which is just fine by me. And in a way, he reminds me of a crane because he’s so tall and skinny! In the original story of Sleepy Hollow, which Jennifer read to me when she was in junior high, Ichabod Crane was also sort of goofy. I also remember seeing him in some Disney cartoon or something like that, and he was just…ugly!! But there’s nothing goofy or ugly about this Ichabod Crane!
He’s played by an actor named Tom Mison, who I know nothing about, and I don’t need to know anything about. He’s tall and skinny, as I mentioned, and he has the most lovely British accent. Now, usually Tessie is the one who goes nuts for accents, and while she tells me she loves his voice, she keeps her eyes covered most of the time, so I don’t know that she has really had a good look at Mr. Crane.
Right now, he’s walking around in his late 18th century clothing, which looks so cool, and he has a beard and this long straggly hair that makes him look very disheveled, but that is actually the PERFECT look for him! I mean, he’s traveled through time and is being pursued by demons—who wouldn’t be disheveled?
This Ichabod Crane is a Professor, which might have something to do with why I like him so much. He’s very smart. In the last episode we saw, he was speaking in Middle English! Can you do that?? 
No! So that was really cool. Even Jennifer’s father, who was a Professor, could not speak in Middle English.
I also like that Crane has this very strange but interesting relationship with Abby, the policewoman (or “LEF-tenant,” as he calls her with his British accent.) It’s like they tried to find the two people who are most unalike and put them together. He’s a tall white Englishman from the 18th century, and she’s a short black woman from the current day. But in this case, opposites attract (as they say)—though not romantically, and that’s just fine by me, because Crane is still so in love with his wife who was a witch, and she’s trying to help him stop the Apocalypse, even though she’s stuck in Purgatory, guarded by the demon Malloch.
A rich storyline, no? I would keep watching this show just for the storyline, but how much better to have a tall, intelligent, soft-spoken Englishman to feast your eyes on at the same time! I hope they don’t clean him up too much, don’t make him shave his beard or cut his ponytail. And I hope he keeps saying things like “As you know, I am insane and therefore impervious to simple commands” and “When did it become acceptable for ladies to wear trousers?”
Sigh…I could just listen to him all day…
