1. I’m really stoked about the Star Wars movie. Really really stoked. So much so that I watched ep. 4 the other day and was surprised to hear Luke say to Ben, “You fought in the clone wars?”
2. I spent entirely too much time last night laughing at The Parade of Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes, which I can’t read from work because it’s set as “mature.” It’s actually pretty immature. Thanks to Hugh Casey for the link, and there’s more where that came from.
3. We watched Wrinkle in Time last night. It was fairly well executed, but the IT agent looked kinda like Max and I thought IT itself looked completely wrong. i think it’s because they didn’t want to upset small children with what IT was really supposed to be. BRAINZZZZZZZZZZZ. Slow to get started, too, but all right for a kid flick. I’m not sure why feel like now that I’m grown up, studios should render my favorite childhood books into movies that are more tailored to 34-y-o me, but I guess it has something to do with a fervent belief that the best childhood books were those that weren’t dumbed down, and Disney has a knack for “cute”ing down, so to speak. And while I enjoyed it, it was definitely cute-d down.
4. Nothing reminds you that you’re sfnally inclined better than the fact that there are several hundred SF titles in the boxes that you are about to move from one apartment to the next without ever having opened because you’re still determined to read all those books.
5. Speaking of reading, we’ve packed all the books. Once we unpack the ones that are on my immediate to-read list, we’ll commence discussing some of them at dystopics, starting with Brave New World.
6. I think I’m going to add a bunch of SF folks by cruising around my SFF friends and seeing what names I recognize.
7. I’ve realized that the trouble with me and gaming is that I game like a writer, and I suppose it could be argued that I write like a gamer. The trouble with this is that I much prefer dreaming up campaigns than actually doing anything with them, and that’s half
the reason I started writing in 1996 in the first place. I should just create my own game and make it a hybrid of world of darkness, martha stewart’s apprentice, super mario bros. and bowling.
8. cons. well, a lot is going to depend on how things go down with the parents and with bear’s job stuff. Philcon is a near definite. NASFIC is on the wish list. I may hit something up over the summer. We’ll see. 9. Now that I’m safely addicted to Buffy and Angel, recommend some other well-written series that I missed while comatose from 1997 to 2001. Also let me know what I’m missing these days, because I really don’t watch TV. I rent shows.
10. I can say sci-fi without flinching now, but generally I’m talking about movies if I do.
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