Christmas has come and gone, and I can’t help but notice that I didn’t get that hi-def flat panel LCD television I wanted. And for about the thirtieth year in a row, Santa didn’t leave me a pony. Fat jolly bastard.
We watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It was okay, a B+ or so - definitely worth seeing, worth owning the DVD, didn’t measure up to the hilarity of the books but when do they ever? (Movies, I mean.) I didn’t like the reworking for more focus upon the romance between Arthur and Trillian, even once my brother pointed out that Douglas Adams himself had done the screenplay, so any liberties or deviations from the book were his invention (or at least had his approval). Alan Rickman was fabulous, but when isn’t he?
We watched The Polar Express. Lame. Even for a Christmas/kidlet movie. Thank gods I also bought Aqua Teen Hunger Force volume 4 and Beavis & Butthead Volume 1.
We re-watched Serenity. I love the scene in which Mal shoots and says, “Course, that ain’t exactly Plan ‘A’!” - gawd, that never gets old.
I read some books: The Jinx, by Jennifer Sturman, Killing Floor by Lee Childs and Disappearing Nightly by Laura Resnick. None were all that great in a Pulitzer sort of way but all were, for the most part, entertaining. Killing Floor had probably the best mystery, intriguing plot, lots of action and excitement, but was not particularly believable even though it’s supposed to be one of those novels fraught with gritty realism. The Jinx was funny and entertaining, with a sympathetic protagonist, but less of a “mystery novel” than I thought I was buying. Disappearing Nightly was the best of the three - not believable but then it isn’t supposed to be - nice mixing of fantasy elements, modern life and mystery. I'm getting a little tired, though, of these publishers tricking me into thinking I'm getting a suspense/mystery novel when really I'm buying a spiffed-up Harlequin Romance with a half-assed mystery plot device.
Now I’m back at work, doing all my preparations for year-end (our fiscal year is the same as the calendar year) and all I want to do is nap.
We watched The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It was okay, a B+ or so - definitely worth seeing, worth owning the DVD, didn’t measure up to the hilarity of the books but when do they ever? (Movies, I mean.) I didn’t like the reworking for more focus upon the romance between Arthur and Trillian, even once my brother pointed out that Douglas Adams himself had done the screenplay, so any liberties or deviations from the book were his invention (or at least had his approval). Alan Rickman was fabulous, but when isn’t he?
We watched The Polar Express. Lame. Even for a Christmas/kidlet movie. Thank gods I also bought Aqua Teen Hunger Force volume 4 and Beavis & Butthead Volume 1.
We re-watched Serenity. I love the scene in which Mal shoots and says, “Course, that ain’t exactly Plan ‘A’!” - gawd, that never gets old.
I read some books: The Jinx, by Jennifer Sturman, Killing Floor by Lee Childs and Disappearing Nightly by Laura Resnick. None were all that great in a Pulitzer sort of way but all were, for the most part, entertaining. Killing Floor had probably the best mystery, intriguing plot, lots of action and excitement, but was not particularly believable even though it’s supposed to be one of those novels fraught with gritty realism. The Jinx was funny and entertaining, with a sympathetic protagonist, but less of a “mystery novel” than I thought I was buying. Disappearing Nightly was the best of the three - not believable but then it isn’t supposed to be - nice mixing of fantasy elements, modern life and mystery. I'm getting a little tired, though, of these publishers tricking me into thinking I'm getting a suspense/mystery novel when really I'm buying a spiffed-up Harlequin Romance with a half-assed mystery plot device.
Now I’m back at work, doing all my preparations for year-end (our fiscal year is the same as the calendar year) and all I want to do is nap.
2 Comments:
Sorry about the pony. I have the same situation with a pinball machine; I've been asking for one since 1974.
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oldhall, at 3:53 PM
I wonder why you didn't get the pinball machine. They don't eat much, which was the lame excuse my parents always trotted out regarding the pony (that was a pun, get it?).
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Helly, at 1:01 PM
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