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My two days of free time turned into two evenings of free time, one of which I spent watching True Blood ep 2 and a movie and the other of which I spent taking a nap and catching up on emails. Oh, well. I have 400 words of Ariadne/Eames/Arthur from two weeks ago, which was one of the leading votes-including, I believe, one from a spam bot that is apparently into threesomes.
Bad for fanwork, good for life: I got a lot of needed shopping and cleaning done, saw a very good play, had tasty BBQ satays and good conversation, visited Annapolis for the first time and had fresh crab and shrimp on the Chesapeake. Somehow did not melt in the muggy heat. While engaging in most of the above, got to hang out with deelaundry, recrudescence, alpheratz & sister and friends of friends. Then fireworks on TV! Steve Martin's bluegrass band at the Capitol Fourth show was a highlight. I'm sorry I thought you were Orville Redenbacher at first in your white suit, Steve Martin.
Among the sights seen in Annapolis were the bell of the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Naval Academy and Batman's autograph in the guest book of the State House. We visited a tea shop, and it wasn't until the sales clerk rung us up and pointed out that they have to charge for the tea and the container separately because tea still is not taxed that we realized tea was in fact the perfect purchase for July 4. We did not go dump it in the bay.
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The movie I watched was Layer Cake, yet another movie I'd meant to see when it came out (Colm Meaney!) but never got around to. It was a lot like watching Rocknrolla (seen a couple of months ago), only with less Mark Strong and more squinty Daniel Craig, a little less Tom Hardy, and about the same number of fucking junkies but sadly fewer declarations of gay crushes. In fact, I'd call Rocknrolla a remix of Layer Cake. Layer Cake was less complicated, but I liked the pace more and only had to rewind twice to catch what was going on because my attention wandered. Wish I'd seen it first; it was made earlier and clearly was an influence on the other, so now some of the twists do not feel like twists if you've watched Rocknrolla or, say, any Hei$t episodes.
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Of potential interest to writers who are fans of Joseph Gordon-Levitt: He is apparently working on a book of "tiny stories" and will be accepting submissions from the public.
Bad for fanwork, good for life: I got a lot of needed shopping and cleaning done, saw a very good play, had tasty BBQ satays and good conversation, visited Annapolis for the first time and had fresh crab and shrimp on the Chesapeake. Somehow did not melt in the muggy heat. While engaging in most of the above, got to hang out with deelaundry, recrudescence, alpheratz & sister and friends of friends. Then fireworks on TV! Steve Martin's bluegrass band at the Capitol Fourth show was a highlight. I'm sorry I thought you were Orville Redenbacher at first in your white suit, Steve Martin.
Among the sights seen in Annapolis were the bell of the U.S.S. Enterprise at the Naval Academy and Batman's autograph in the guest book of the State House. We visited a tea shop, and it wasn't until the sales clerk rung us up and pointed out that they have to charge for the tea and the container separately because tea still is not taxed that we realized tea was in fact the perfect purchase for July 4. We did not go dump it in the bay.
.
The movie I watched was Layer Cake, yet another movie I'd meant to see when it came out (Colm Meaney!) but never got around to. It was a lot like watching Rocknrolla (seen a couple of months ago), only with less Mark Strong and more squinty Daniel Craig, a little less Tom Hardy, and about the same number of fucking junkies but sadly fewer declarations of gay crushes. In fact, I'd call Rocknrolla a remix of Layer Cake. Layer Cake was less complicated, but I liked the pace more and only had to rewind twice to catch what was going on because my attention wandered. Wish I'd seen it first; it was made earlier and clearly was an influence on the other, so now some of the twists do not feel like twists if you've watched Rocknrolla or, say, any Hei$t episodes.
.
Of potential interest to writers who are fans of Joseph Gordon-Levitt: He is apparently working on a book of "tiny stories" and will be accepting submissions from the public.