Personal update
Oct. 25th, 2012 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldfThis last week has included:
At its zenith - A reading by Jane Yolen at Magers & Quinn Bookstore of her forthcoming book Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America. A Memoir in Verse. This was both moving and entertaining and involved Thai food beforehand with my beloved and chatting afterward with friends. Excellent way to spend an evening.
At its nadir - Dark Knight Rises. The epitome of Aii, the stupid, it burns! It burns! Ye gods, where to begin? The lousy writing and pacing, the terrible fight choreography, the absence of the titular character from the screen for an entire hour? Or the plot devices that set a new low for moronic? There was a point when I began muttering, "Frag the lieutenant! Frag the lieutenant!" to the amusement of my friends. Because you know, if he was my boss, just saying... Then there's the big ending, which I will not disclose in case someone reading hasn't seen it and wants to (flee! flee!). Physics, people. You displace that much mass and energy, it goes somewhere. Which kills the point of the big ending, among other things. I did like Anne Hathaway. She did her best.
Apart from that, I'll be in NYC in March of 2013 and will be on the Hour of the Wolf Radio Show some time that week and taped for soon thereafter. I'm trying to check some options for doing readings and such so if you have any suggestions, bring them on.
It's been a bursitis flare-up week so not so much fun on that score, but the standing desk option at work has been helping. And I got an invite to write something for a queer steampunk horror antho so I'll be gleefully starting that this week. I've done some other work on new projects and am looking forward to checking out Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen at Gremlin this weekend.
Off to go finish a few things before bed.
At its zenith - A reading by Jane Yolen at Magers & Quinn Bookstore of her forthcoming book Ekaterinoslav: One Family's Passage to America. A Memoir in Verse. This was both moving and entertaining and involved Thai food beforehand with my beloved and chatting afterward with friends. Excellent way to spend an evening.
At its nadir - Dark Knight Rises. The epitome of Aii, the stupid, it burns! It burns! Ye gods, where to begin? The lousy writing and pacing, the terrible fight choreography, the absence of the titular character from the screen for an entire hour? Or the plot devices that set a new low for moronic? There was a point when I began muttering, "Frag the lieutenant! Frag the lieutenant!" to the amusement of my friends. Because you know, if he was my boss, just saying... Then there's the big ending, which I will not disclose in case someone reading hasn't seen it and wants to (flee! flee!). Physics, people. You displace that much mass and energy, it goes somewhere. Which kills the point of the big ending, among other things. I did like Anne Hathaway. She did her best.
Apart from that, I'll be in NYC in March of 2013 and will be on the Hour of the Wolf Radio Show some time that week and taped for soon thereafter. I'm trying to check some options for doing readings and such so if you have any suggestions, bring them on.
It's been a bursitis flare-up week so not so much fun on that score, but the standing desk option at work has been helping. And I got an invite to write something for a queer steampunk horror antho so I'll be gleefully starting that this week. I've done some other work on new projects and am looking forward to checking out Lives of the Most Notorious Highwaymen at Gremlin this weekend.
Off to go finish a few things before bed.