I has a blankie

As part of my recent birthday haul, I got an utterly gorgeous alpaca wool blanket from saluqi and faxon. It's very light, has a slightly coarse weave (which I like better than the fine cashmere-type effect), is a wonderful charcoal colour, and is as soft as cat fur mixed with silk. I'm having whimsical thoughts of it being something the Elves would have used for the cloaks they provided the party at Lothlorien. Not sure if the alpacas could graze amongst the mallorn trees, though. Heh. I like my blankie very much.

On a slightly more adult note, are french horns (with xtra bonus trumpetings) the musical version of Comic Sans in sci-fi movies and tv, and science documentaries? I blame the original Star Trek theme for the conflation of their parping and "intrepid investigation" or whatever we're supposed to be associating it with. I wish they'd stop.

ETA: I know what it is with the goddamned french horns! It's Holst's The Planets. Can we move away from this clicheinspiration? Now?

 </omitting rant on the stupidities of certain aspects of vigorous DRMing and IP protection when most of the arts are recycling certain themes/media/whatever constantly>