Archive for October, 2006

Watchmen back in play?

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Apparently, there’s a new director on board. This is possibly good news, although frankly, I’m not sure this guy has a good enough track record. We’ll see how The 300 comes out.

I was, frankly, happier with the rumored choice of Aronofsky, whom I would trust to tell a story in which we have to root [...]

The Prestige

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

Just saw The Prestige as part of the ongoing birthday festivities. (We do birthdays a little bit at a time, not at all at once.) It was….a good movie, although not perfect, and difficult to relate to the book. In many respects, it was a loyal adaptation; it felt right, mostly, in terms of the [...]

Wired’s Six-Word Stories

Sunday, October 29th, 2006

These have been floating around for a bit, and some of them are entertaining:

Vacuum collision. Orbits diverge. Farewell, love. (David Brin)

Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. (Joss Whedon)

Longed for him. Got him. Shit. (Margaret Atwood)

It cost too much, staying human. (Bruce Sterling)

The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. (OS Card)

To save humankind he died again. (Ben [...]

Birthday, etc.

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Well, a year older and all that stuff. Nothing much to say about that, and nothing eventful in birthday land. Got a nice old copy of Again, Dangerous Visions from Andrew, along with some of my old books. Rosie and Renee made me dinner, which consisted largely of their own peculiar variations on Korean and [...]

Eureka was Renewed

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

I totally missed this news two weeks ago, but I’m certainly happy to notice it now.

SCIFI.COM | Eureka

Math is hard. Let’s study the torah!

Sunday, October 22nd, 2006

Since I’m apparently Jewish now, this is probably worth sharing:

Boing Boing: Orthodox Jewish prayer Barbie

“Aw, man, why’d you have to knit that?”

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

The Replacements is a bad show with occasionally very clever writing. I’m not sure whether today’s qualifies or not, but I liked it a lot, largely because the Frinkman-style nerd, Shelton, is apparently a knitter, as discovered in the exchange in which Shelton offers one of the protagonists a “bench cozy” he knit, as a [...]