Okay, I ask the same question every year, but where the hell did 2004 go?
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HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!
Merry Holidays to All
Christmas 2004 has come and gone.
Happy Holidays to all and to all a good night.
Tried the Tofurky Vegetarian Feast for the first time ever. The roast filled with stuffing was excellent. Screwed up the potato dumplings, so they turned out just ok. The gravy was yummy. Next time, probably next Thanksgiving, we’ll see if we can’t make the dumplings turn out well.
We watched the first DVD of the Return of the King extended version. Boy, it sure would have been nice if they did the Kill Bill thing with all three installments and bit the bullet time wise to include all this juicy extra stuff the first time through. So good and every minute of it makes the movies better for their intended use (copious unabashed worship of the LOTR universe).
Thanksgiving 2004
O’ Universe
Thank you for wonderful seitan, a scrumptous treat any day, but particularly good today.
Thank you for great family and friends.
No thanks for a rather horrible election. Please take that back and do it over. There are many of us in the world who would greatly appreciate it.
Long Time No Write
It has been a long time since I have written here.
I miss it.
Hope it hasn’t missed me too much.
Addicted to Lineage II. Great friends from across the continent and beyond, who are great roleplayers, and insanely great graphics. Will write more about why I think this game might just have it all (at least for me), soon. If I can stop playing, that is.
BEFORE SUNRISE/SUNSET
I loved the pondering quality of A WAKING LIFE and the layer of surrealism that the animation added to the proceedings, but sometimes it is nice to see well drawn characters leap out of the screen during some, albeit whimisical, more realistic proceedings.
Now, for some unknown reason, I managed to miss out on BEFORE SUNRISE for the last nine years. Checked it out via Netflix before going to see the daylight followup.
Adoring fiction about chance, both of the BEFORE movies stuck with me long after viewing them… I regret I couldn’t have seen the first one way back when to ride along with the gleeful attempts at recollection, but regardless, they blew me away.
More than recommended. If you hate the Hollywood ending, you too will love both of these movies.
Distraction
The aptly titled novel Distraction (1998) by Bruce Sterling did a nice job of slowly drawing me into the story, in a way akin to being distracted. On the surface, it is all about politics, but what is politics all about?
Sterling explores that question in his own way. There are tidbits from his other novels. Twinges of crazy weather and glimpses into a perceived future of where the internet might be in 40 years.
Best of all it makes me laugh when I least expect it.
Living in the Future
Norwescon 27 has come and gone and wonderful it was. The website seemed to have disappeared for a moment (now it is back), but they already have something up for next year: “The Language of Fantasy.”
I am most intrigued by the science guest of honor for next year.
And as always the rest of the guests ain’t half bad themselves.
