On Sunday O and I (and cousin D, who joined us at the last minute) went to see Deadpool & Wolverine. Two movies in theaters in two months after 2.5 years of not going to a movie theater at all -- amazing XD The benefit of seeing a movie a month after it came out is that there were like 10 people in our theater, and at first nobody but us in our ( Read more... )

Taskmaster s17e09 -- I was traveling when this came out, so wasn't able to watch it until late Thursday night (and stayed up an hour later than I otherwise would have to watch it, even though I was pretty tired), and meanwhile read the Reddit thread, which is actually not all that spoilery as an experience, because Taskmaster is so random, you can' ( Read more... )

I was going to try to catch up on Snowflake this weekend, and also RL posts, but this is neither of those things XD This is my Secret Santa squee post and also Hugo drama, because I didn't want to delay either too much:

I got an AMAZING package from rinkafushi, my Santa in cafemassolit's annual Gift Exchange, after a somewhat nervous fortnight it spent in US customs ( Read more... )

I had not been expecting Taskmaster Champion of Champions III so soon, but was glad to get it! And I enjoyed it a lot. Also, whoa, has it really been 150 episodes? It feels like we just had the 100th one with the cake! ( I think this was my favorite CoC to date (with spoilers) )

I've read (and watched) a few things and I should really write down my thoughts about them before I completely forget them.

7. Kelly Link, White Cat, Black Dog -- this is a collection of fairy tales set in the modern world, each one riffing on a specific tale. I've liked Kelly Link's other short fiction and was curious to see how this approach ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, clearly reading isn't happening this year either. I don't know what the problem is, really, because I don't think it's narrative burnout like last year and 2020 -- and I'm enjoying talking ABOUT fiction, I'm just not reading hardly any. But I did finish a Vlad Taltos book, which I was planning to do in preparation for Tsalmoth (IMMINENT ( Read more... )

Happy 2023! At our NYE gathering yesterday, my mother refused to toast to 2023 being a better year than 2022, because that was too low a bar, so we settled on "may it be better than 2019", as the closest acceptable baseline). So, may it be better than 2019, or than another decent year for all of you, dear flist (and passing Snowflake folk ( Read more... )

I'm going to start with the part that did not fit in my last reading & watching roundup post, which is to say, The Hugos:

Winners were announced and detailed results were published, and you know what that means...

( Hugo nattering )

Well, so, I'm going to manage at least one Hugo category in full, even if it's just short stories (ETA: and novelettes!)

"Proof by Induction", Jose Pablo Iriarte -- I enjoyed this one a lot. It happened to have hit a couple of things RTMI -- parents and children (over more than one generation), a story about math and academia (which I may not ( Read more... )

( Taskmaster series 13 finale (SPOILERS) )