Jolly Rogers
I don't want to jinx anything, but the writing is going moderately well. I have a short story that I think I will make it to the end of, and another couple brewing for later. I am a slow and indolent writer, and only managing to produce ~1000 words a day, but who cares, I have no NaNoWriMo-style end-of-month target, and at least this is sustainable.
I looked at the website for the magazine Tales of the Talisman, who pay a princely $10 for each SF/fantasy story published - who says it's hard to make a living as a writer? I was amused by the sample piece on their site, because, am I wrong, isn't it a thinly-disguised piece of fanfiction about The Silver Surfer and Galactus?
The Canadian equivalent of Netflix to which Tessa and I subscribe is called Rogers Video Direct and it doesn't seem to have much that's good or obscure, so I've been resorting to blockbusters I missed at the theatres instead. Juno, not really a blockbuster but still, was pretty good but annoyed me because, despite a refreshingly unconservative approach to the players in a teenage pregnancy drama up till then, of COURSE the friendship that's been struck up between the 16 year old girl and the thirtysomething would-be-adoptive-father-of-her-baby turns out to be something Scandalous and Wrong. It makes me so mad that in our brave new world of paedophilia hysteria there's no shrift given to the idea that people from different generations might, you know, just one another. If Lewis Carroll was alive today he'd never have been allowed to get near Alice! Thank goodness for Harold and Maude being out there, and still not re-edited by the censors to add in a "healthy" dose of Judgmental.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was pretty bad, but gets some sort of pass for not being as bad as X-Men 3: The Last Stand. (That said, being kicked repeatedly in the balls by a professional football player gets that pass too.) Tessa had fun playing the game of correctly completing people's lines of dialogue for them, all of them being completely banal and predictable. I myself spent a lot of time irked by the repeated motif of good guys having the bad guys at their mercy, and then giving the sanctimonious spiel about "I should kill you know... but I'm not like you", leaving the villains to kill again, and again, and again. I know many of you are anti-death-penalty, and I am too, but only because the possibilities for miscarriage of justice are too high. I don't think I've ever seen anyone playing a roleplaying game refuse to slit the throat of an orc on moral grounds, in fact roleplayers are generally blood-crazed maniacs, so is there really any mileage in this holier-than-thou stuff? If I ever get the drop on Sabretooth in my kitchen, I'm going to slam the fridge door repeatedly on his head until there's nothing left of it but mush.
Poll time I guess.
Poll Blockbuster Morality
I looked at the website for the magazine Tales of the Talisman, who pay a princely $10 for each SF/fantasy story published - who says it's hard to make a living as a writer? I was amused by the sample piece on their site, because, am I wrong, isn't it a thinly-disguised piece of fanfiction about The Silver Surfer and Galactus?
The Canadian equivalent of Netflix to which Tessa and I subscribe is called Rogers Video Direct and it doesn't seem to have much that's good or obscure, so I've been resorting to blockbusters I missed at the theatres instead. Juno, not really a blockbuster but still, was pretty good but annoyed me because, despite a refreshingly unconservative approach to the players in a teenage pregnancy drama up till then, of COURSE the friendship that's been struck up between the 16 year old girl and the thirtysomething would-be-adoptive-father-of-her-baby turns out to be something Scandalous and Wrong. It makes me so mad that in our brave new world of paedophilia hysteria there's no shrift given to the idea that people from different generations might, you know, just one another. If Lewis Carroll was alive today he'd never have been allowed to get near Alice! Thank goodness for Harold and Maude being out there, and still not re-edited by the censors to add in a "healthy" dose of Judgmental.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine was pretty bad, but gets some sort of pass for not being as bad as X-Men 3: The Last Stand. (That said, being kicked repeatedly in the balls by a professional football player gets that pass too.) Tessa had fun playing the game of correctly completing people's lines of dialogue for them, all of them being completely banal and predictable. I myself spent a lot of time irked by the repeated motif of good guys having the bad guys at their mercy, and then giving the sanctimonious spiel about "I should kill you know... but I'm not like you", leaving the villains to kill again, and again, and again. I know many of you are anti-death-penalty, and I am too, but only because the possibilities for miscarriage of justice are too high. I don't think I've ever seen anyone playing a roleplaying game refuse to slit the throat of an orc on moral grounds, in fact roleplayers are generally blood-crazed maniacs, so is there really any mileage in this holier-than-thou stuff? If I ever get the drop on Sabretooth in my kitchen, I'm going to slam the fridge door repeatedly on his head until there's nothing left of it but mush.
Poll time I guess.
Poll Blockbuster Morality