Let’s examine the last week’s DVD purchases. It’s an addiction, those shiny plastic discs of cinematic goodness. Thankfully, there’s a sale at work on pre-owned DVDs–buy two, get one for free. Oh, the pain! My job enables my addiction! The horror! Anyway, the purchases: About a Boy, the adaptation of Nick Hornby’s novel starring HughContinue reading “Shiny plastic discs”
Puckish behavior?
Defective merchandise needed to be shipped out. A box of systems, games, and controllers overflowed. I pulled together the controllers, and carefully wrote out a defective slip for each one. The last controller, though, had no indication of why it was defective. I held it. Looked at it. Turned it over. Wasn’t it obvious, inContinue reading “Puckish behavior?”
Closing songs
Fellowship of the Ring closed with Enya’s “May It Be.” The Two Towers closed with “Gollum’s Song” by Emiliana Torrini. Return of the King should close with “Frodo of the Nine Fingers.” I’m serious. It doesn’t have to be sung by Aerosmith, though I appreciated their take on the classic Spider-Man theme song. But forContinue reading “Closing songs”
This is how the world will end
Thoughts?
New Year’s Eve
John Ordover announced yesterday the winners of this year’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds contest. Of the five stories I submitted for consideration, none made the final cut. I thought I had a real shot with “Memorial Day” The story of Jake Sisko and the Cestus III Dominion War Memorial wasn’t the incestuous continuity pornContinue reading “New Year’s Eve”
Writer's Notebook
I have a ticket to the 1:00 showing of The Two Towers. I hadn’t planned on going today–I’m not someone who really has to see a film on opening day. But, today happens to be my only day off this week, my Christmas shopping is finished, my mental energy is waning under the Christmas onslaught,Continue reading “Writer's Notebook”
Mr. St. Nick
I don’t often watch television these days–there’s so little time as it is, and so little I really want to watch–but this evening I saw a made-for-television film on ABC Family entitled Mr. St. Nick and starring Kelsey Grammer. The premise was simple–Grammer was Nick St. Nicholas, eligible bachelor and millionairre fundraiser. He was alsoContinue reading “Mr. St. Nick”
Christmas shopping
Ten days left, and I’m essentially done. Two years ago I started my Christmas shopping on December 23rd. It wasn’t intentional; I simply hadn’t had the time to do my shopping until I was up against that wall. My store had a staff of five that holiday season, and it seemed like all my timeContinue reading “Christmas shopping”
Stalking the wild Harry Potter book
Yesterday brought two surprises. The first, and potentially the most important, was that I got my power back after five days. Raleigh, North Carolina was hit by a massive ice storm on last Wednesday, leaving upwards of 70 percent of the Raleigh/Durham area without electricity, and without electricity I had neither heat nor water. AfterContinue reading “Stalking the wild Harry Potter book”
Remembering John
John Lennon, one of the Beatles, some would say the important one but I’d disagree with that, was killed twenty-two years ago today. 🙁 One of my favorite Lennon tunes is “Jealous Guy” from John’s Imagine album. It once had different words. Once it was a song called “Child of Nature”… On the road toContinue reading “Remembering John”