I should have known better. Gary asked me last night if I wanted to watch Serenity with him (the film, not the series which he's already seen.) He'd found it remaindered for $5. I agreed ( Read more... )

One of those days where you don't know what happened because it was all under cover of an antihistamine blur, which just reduced and did not quite control the effects of a massive cold. And now I'm falling asleep over the keyboard, though I seem quite unable to sleep when horizontal for fear of drowning in, well, you know ( Read more... )

Finally saw Bolt last night. Predictable Disney in some ways, but the characters are well done, most especially Bolt himself of course. I really liked it. Squeaky carrot, anyone ( Read more... )

So Gary brought home a DVD last week. Remaindered, probably at Walmart, for $5. He picked it up because of the steam-punkish picture on the front, of a dirigible carrying a metal ship's hull aloft.

The picture is called Stardust and neither of us had heard of it. He wanted to watch it, so we did, tonight. While unwrapping it, my librarian's eagle ( Read more... )

Went back to the fair at 9:30 this morning and except for a 45 minute lunch break with Gary, stayed until just before it closed at 5:30 pm. Today I got to see most of the exhibits and vendor booths. There were some interesting things, but the only one that I was inspired to buy (after passing it up twice, I went back for it) was a plush llama about ( Read more... )

Since it's a long weekend and started for me at 12:30 today, and Gary was home on a Thursday, we planned to go into Crystal Lake to see Wall-E (Gary's choice) and have lunch. Got there and picked up tickets for 2:40 then walked across the street to Bennigan's where we often eat when going to that theatre. It was closed. Apparently rather abruptly ( Read more... )

Seems to have stopped, perhaps we'll get a dry day or two, though more is predicted for Thursday.

Finished the guild newsletter, thank goodness.

And we watched City Slickers, which neither of us had seen before. I decided to get it at the library and watch because there are so many references to it in McKinley's Coyote River comics. It wasn't bad ( Read more... )

The storms passed by on both sides of us again. We didn't even get much rain. I'm not complaining, really, though the horses may eventually object to being put in early all the time ( Read more... )

We watched Peter Jackson's Fellowship of the Ring tonight. (The extended DVD edition.) Of the three films, I thought at first, and still do, that it was the best. That's because it sticks more closely to the book than the others, and seems to leave out the least. Even so, it suffers from pointless alterations to Tolkien's much-polished prose ( Read more... )

So we watched Conan the GovernorBarbarian this evening. Gary had never seen it, and happened to hear the sound track recording last week. He was intrigued enough to want to see the film. I think it's the best one Arnold ever made, mostly because he doesn't say much of anything and just poses a lot. ;p (Actually, I've always thought Gerry Lopez was ( Read more... )