After a nice friendly dinner yesterday with tbosky , libation , muranoprincess , Boz and Paul at Taco Vida in CityPlace (which was pretty good!) we hit the movies and I have to say I have a new favorite Avatar, sorry Felicia.

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Paul and I watched the movie yesterday and it was phenomenal. The visiuals were amazing, but the story was strong and well told (if not exactly ( Read more... )

I decided something fun to do as a New Years post would be to take some broad categories and list enduring and new favorites in those categories.

( The Categories )

I've always liked kitsune stories, starting with my introduction to them, "The Fox's Wedding" from Kurasawa's Dreams.

This Halloween my original idea was to dress like a kitsune, except that didn't work.

I just read the amazingly beautiful P. Craig Russell reissue of Neil's The Dream Hunters and feel in love with the little kitsune in the story ( Read more... )

Too many funny cool things have happened this week. A random sampling:

Thursday
1. Shana visited
2. I had oatmeal cookie dough ice cream
3. I watched Step Up 2: The Streets
4. We formed our own street crew, the 641
5. pentateuch  forgot where he came from and bailed on our crew the next day

Friday
6. I hung out with Terry
7. I watched Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus
8. ( Read more... )

So I've been engaged in an enjoyable email thread which has essentially degenerated into digital oneupsmanship regarding exactly which is Amanda Palmer's best performance.

My latest volley is so cute I had to share it. Smiles for everyone!

libation  I will be pleasantly surprised if you find one I like better than this:

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I had a really awesome dream about ( Read more... )

Boz, muranoprincess 's fiance, sent this around through email and I think everyone should watch it.

It's a cool arty beautiful animated film available free online.

http://www.thirteen.org/sites/reel13/indies/indie-sita-sings-the-blues/241/