Odds and Ends

Nov 22, 2007 14:09

There's an article about Joss on the picket line for the WGA strike here. Found out about it on my Whedonesque widget. What isn't there a widget for these days? Anyway, go Joss!

I had my very late b-day celebration w/ my ex and my son and son's friend C, who's one of the nicest kids in the world: Apple Pan and Beowulf. I lingered over my dinner at the Apple Pan; it was heavenly. Beowulf was lots of fun. I want to reread it now, but I want to wait until I can get a copy of the Seamus Heaney translation. Somehow I don't think Neil and his co-writer were particularly accurate to the text, but film is a different medium. I need to take a look at Neil's blog (too sleepy for the URL, sorry) and see what original writing he's doing in addition to screenplays. It was a lot of fun. Good action, lots of recreation of the mead-soaked Anglo-Saxon era, heroic boasting. Couldn't understand a world Grendel said. The technology was utterly spectacular, but at the same time it deprived the actors of a certain amount of affect. Angelina Jolie was lovely and seductive, but in a sort of mechanical been-there-and-done-this a million times sort of way. Anthony Hopkins came across the most vividly as a character.

If I can make it, I'm have Thanksgiving w/ my ex and son (daughter is dining w/ a friend's family). So I'm off to nap.

Happy Thanksgiving y'all. If I had the energy I'd tell you about the time my ex (then-hubby) and I nearly killed my father and my friend David. Someone remind me if you're interested. It's not a grand heroic story; just a small amusing domestic one.

joss whedon, apple pan, thanksgiving, wga strike, beowulf

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