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Had a recorded delivery package yesterday (found the note about it when I got home in the evening). Was very curious about what it could be. Went to collect it from the post office this morning. Turned out to be my degree certificate for the MA.
My BC release blitz was only a mini-blitz, as it's been raining, spitting or threatening rain most of the day and my plan to take books to the park had to be abandoned.
Instead, I visited Wistfuldragon's OBCZ at the Continental Coffee House, Streatham, and released some there, as well as leaving a few on my way.
Had an espresso, left some books on the shelf and picked one up. Also visited the charity shop next door, where I scored a copy of Jennifer Government (good Nationstates background), and for £2.50 the 4th editiion Champions rulebook, with all the campaign-design material! Bargain - especially as my old rules-only softback is starting to fall apart. I might browse the campaign section later, looking towards how we might set up a Wild Cards game.
Also went to see Assault on Precinct 13. Not too bad, and the action scenes are competently handled, but the original had so much more respect for the intelligence of its audience, had a dimension beyond simple action-thriller, and also wasn't over-plotted. The new version has ho-hum bent cops as the bad guys, and too much (predictable) betrayal and double-cross. Ethan Hawke's character wasn't very well drawn, either. I did like the way they played up the tensions between the cops and the criminals, though, and Laurence Fishburne's an excellent, scary anti-hero. And I was more upset by the death of one character than I have been for a long time in a movie. Don't know if that's a good or bad thing.
My BC release blitz was only a mini-blitz, as it's been raining, spitting or threatening rain most of the day and my plan to take books to the park had to be abandoned.
Instead, I visited Wistfuldragon's OBCZ at the Continental Coffee House, Streatham, and released some there, as well as leaving a few on my way.
Had an espresso, left some books on the shelf and picked one up. Also visited the charity shop next door, where I scored a copy of Jennifer Government (good Nationstates background), and for £2.50 the 4th editiion Champions rulebook, with all the campaign-design material! Bargain - especially as my old rules-only softback is starting to fall apart. I might browse the campaign section later, looking towards how we might set up a Wild Cards game.
Also went to see Assault on Precinct 13. Not too bad, and the action scenes are competently handled, but the original had so much more respect for the intelligence of its audience, had a dimension beyond simple action-thriller, and also wasn't over-plotted. The new version has ho-hum bent cops as the bad guys, and too much (predictable) betrayal and double-cross. Ethan Hawke's character wasn't very well drawn, either. I did like the way they played up the tensions between the cops and the criminals, though, and Laurence Fishburne's an excellent, scary anti-hero. And I was more upset by the death of one character than I have been for a long time in a movie. Don't know if that's a good or bad thing.