Amusing Things and Other Stuff

[jetpack_monkey]

- Latest episode of Doctor Who is made of total win. I kind of want to read some Agatha Christie now. Maybe after I finish my Tour of Sci-Fi in 2010. Donna Noble may be surpassing Martha Jones as my favorite New!Who companion.

- Been watching classic Twilight Zone episodes to research an article for Classic-Horror. Watching Telly Savalas match wits with a creepy doll is kind of unnerving. Watching William Shatner actually act rather than rely on his own sense of self-satisfaction is REALLY unnerving.

- In the world of Harry Dresden, I have finished Summer Knight and have moved on to Death Masks. Summer Knight ended much better than it started. I'm kind of hoping that Death Masks will be the same, although comments from midnightfae don't give me a lot of hope.

- midnightfae warned me that Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation would be a painful experience. I didn't believe that it could approach Orgy of the Dead levels of suffering. I have suffered for my incredulity. The only bright spot is that Matthew McConaughey plays an surprisingly effective psychopath.

- Speaking of The Twilight Zone, I wrote a joke opening paragraph for the Japanese movie Jigoku (Hell) where I mock Sartre and high school students who get their interpretation of Sartre entirely from the last line of No Exit. I showed it to midnightfae because I thought she'd get a kick out of it and then tell me to write something serious. She told me to go with the joke opening because it totally worked. Weeeeeird.

- Indiana Jones cereal is like eating Chocolate Kix with Marshmallows.

- Went to one-half of an Indy marathon at desertwillow's place yesterday. Ending up reading the Gospel of 100 F**king Tacos in my very best Christopher Lee. And got smacked for a comment about "Snakes on a Flame".

- My kitty is getting a tooth out today, as well as getting a lion cut. There will be pictures.

- timjr wrote the definitive squee on Robert Fuest's The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Read it. Love it. It makes me want to wander off and review its immediate sequel, Dr. Phibes Rises Again, which contains an elaborate Henry James joke.

- midnightfae and I kept getting stuck in really painful gigglefits all weekend for no reason we can discern. One of us would start giggling and the other would continue and then we would keep fueling each other. People who were in the condo at Comic-Con last July will remember what this is like.

- Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is eating what remains of my free time. In a way, it's kind of lucky that my girlfriend is in China, because I think this would annoy the crap out of her. I blame hjcallipygian.

- Two months and one week until Comic-Con.

Comments

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I am with you on two fronts. Oblivion is eating my life away, and M is in Japan for a week for business, so I also have a significant other in an Asian nation. Cue the Twilight Zone music.

Personally, I really liked Death Masks. You learn a lot about the overall picture in this story: stuff about Marcone, stuff about Dresden, the Red Court, you learn about Ebenezer, and you meet a character called The Archive who is pretty awesome, too. Oh, yeah, and you get to meet Nicodemus, who is my favorite bad guy of the series. There's a lot of stuff going on in this one.

[midnightfae.livejournal.com]

That's my problem with it. It's not that great, I think, as a stand alone novel. It's not as grabbing. It plays a huge part in making the following novel awesome because it does connect and introduce elements like crazy. But, while it is an effective tool, I didn't think it was as enjoyable a read.

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

Really? Because I think that the story of Shiro alone is a great book. I'd say that, of the first six books, this is the best or second-best.

[qkellie.livejournal.com]

OHHHH, yes, the "giggleloop." *hee*