Just a few things
1. From yesterday's post, I have concluded that most girls did not use their Barbies and Kens as Mattel intended. For those mothers and fathers who say Barbies do not lend themselves to creative play, I invite you to take a look and see just how creative kids could be.
2. A blogger posted a picture taken of her and Chad Allen when they were both much younger, perhaps late middle school to early high school. He looks so very, very uncomfortable. The blogger describes the event in hilarious terms, and the comments on the photo are quite funny, too. Here's a picture in which a teenage Chad meets a girl and is very uncomfortable about the whole thing. I have to love his hair in that one.
3. Went to see "The Green Hornet" yesterday - this film is a lot of fun. Many explosions, funny dialogue, cartoonish-but-scary villain and did I mention explosions? Plus, we had cool cars, excellent coffee and a female character not put there just to be a love interest but to be brainy and tough. All in all, it was a good night at the flicks.
4. I finished "Fadeout," Joseph Hansen's first Dave Brandstetter novel and can't wait to get the next one from the library. Brandstetter is one of the first openly gay investigator-detectives to actually be accepted as more mainstream literature. The author did write some of the pulpy stuff earlier in his career, but he did it under a pseudonym. "Fadeout" was his shot at going legit, as they say. It's written in the hard-boiled style, which has always been my favorite for detective novels.
The book frankly discusses Dave's homosexuality, but none of the scenes are explicit. Instead you get gorgeous lines like this:
"Aw … Anselmo lowered dark lashes. His small finger traced a circle in the hair on Dave's chest. "I don't mean to be bad for you."
"Go ahead." Dave pulled him down. "Be bad for me." (Scene fade to black).
I'd say more about the beautifully stark language used throughout the book, but I don't want to spoil it in case any of you would like to read it. I read it all in one go, I liked it that much.
2. A blogger posted a picture taken of her and Chad Allen when they were both much younger, perhaps late middle school to early high school. He looks so very, very uncomfortable. The blogger describes the event in hilarious terms, and the comments on the photo are quite funny, too. Here's a picture in which a teenage Chad meets a girl and is very uncomfortable about the whole thing. I have to love his hair in that one.
3. Went to see "The Green Hornet" yesterday - this film is a lot of fun. Many explosions, funny dialogue, cartoonish-but-scary villain and did I mention explosions? Plus, we had cool cars, excellent coffee and a female character not put there just to be a love interest but to be brainy and tough. All in all, it was a good night at the flicks.
4. I finished "Fadeout," Joseph Hansen's first Dave Brandstetter novel and can't wait to get the next one from the library. Brandstetter is one of the first openly gay investigator-detectives to actually be accepted as more mainstream literature. The author did write some of the pulpy stuff earlier in his career, but he did it under a pseudonym. "Fadeout" was his shot at going legit, as they say. It's written in the hard-boiled style, which has always been my favorite for detective novels.
The book frankly discusses Dave's homosexuality, but none of the scenes are explicit. Instead you get gorgeous lines like this:
"Aw … Anselmo lowered dark lashes. His small finger traced a circle in the hair on Dave's chest. "I don't mean to be bad for you."
"Go ahead." Dave pulled him down. "Be bad for me." (Scene fade to black).
I'd say more about the beautifully stark language used throughout the book, but I don't want to spoil it in case any of you would like to read it. I read it all in one go, I liked it that much.