I forgot to mention: we went to see The Hoax last week. This the movie, starring Richard Gere and Alfred "Dr. Octopus" Molina, based on the true story of a writer creating a fake autobiography of Howard Hughes (while he was still alive). I very much enjoyed it, although this is one that would not suffer from being watched on a small screen, I ( Read more... )

( general recap of recent events )

I saw Eragon Friday night. I enjoyed it, although it apparently is getting mauled in the reviews. I had read (well, listened to the unabridged version of) the book, and thought it followed the story pretty well, and mostly left stuff out, although the omissions certainly changed things a bit. The baby dragon was incredibly cute!

( some of the differences between the book and the movie. Yes, that means spoilers within. )

...Dorktower's comment on the "Hobbit" situation?

Well, what have I not mentioned yet ( Read more... )

On my lone day off during this 10 day stretch, we went to see Prestige with a couple friends. Prestige is the movie about two magicians (Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale) in the turn-of-the-century London. I thought it was a very interesting movie, but the womenfolk I was with thought it rather depressing. Don't believe them, believe me - this ( Read more... )

The trailer for Eragon. I'm looking forward to this almost as much as I'm looking forward to The Spiderwick Chronicles (which isn't far enough along to have a trailer yet).

( a (short) book meme )

This past week mostly involved not sleeping, finally sleeping, a PETA-sponsored BBQ (PETA being, in this case People Eating Tasty Animals) featuring fantastic brisket followed by poker, and then not sleeping again ( Read more... )

Lets see - the contractors are moving along. Our fence is back up, and half of the dog yard is now seeded bare dirt. As if Nieve didn't track enough mud through the house before! It was so bad, I even swept this morning ( Read more... )

wren13 was down on the south shore all week, so I didn't see her at all from Sunday afternoon through Saturday afternoon, when she came home (bringing along her flu with her). I worked last Saturday and Sunday, so our last real time together was supposed to be last Friday, but I got called in to cover a sick day, so I had to cut things short after ( Read more... )