Catching up
Perhaps some day I'll figure out a way to write entries in the car on the way to and from work; I always think of things I want to say, but never have time (or memory) to follow through on arrival.
The short version of my life lately is: busy. Mostly at work; I've gotten little magazine stuff done in the past few days. Major disk failure kept me away from computer for most of Tuesday and Thursday. Work has now supplied me with a replacement PowerBook G3 with twice as much memory and a non-damaged hard disk, and OS X is suddenly a joy to use—fast, responsive, doesn't go away and think to itself for two minutes every time I try to read or copy or otherwise examine the wrong file.
On the other hand, I have to admit I've done some non-work stuff too. Watched two movies. America's Sweethearts is a fun comedy, co-written by Billy Crystal and starring him, John Cusack, Julia Roberts, and Catherine Zeta-Jones (plus Hank Azaria, Christopher Walken, and Stanley Tucci in smaller roles); it makes various missteps here and there, but it's laugh-out-loud funny fairly frequently. Lost and Delirious is another entry in the Young Dykes in Love genre (Go Fish, Incredibly True Adventures of Two Girls in Love, Better than Chocolate, etc.), but unfortunately isn't so great. A few good bits, but the fencing and falconry and Shakespeare and chivalry and sex scenes and the presence of Graham Greene and Mimi Kuzyk (who I formerly knew as Detective Mayo from Hill Street Blues) and Jackie Burroughs (who I'd seen before as Mother Mucca in the Tales of the City movies) don't make up for some really clunky dialogue (there are several lines that sound very written, not like people really talk, and the lead actress unfortunately mis-emphasizes words in a couple of lines) and the plot. I can't say much about the plot without spoilers for the ending, but suffice it to say that I didn't find it very satisfying.
Hrm. I was going to mention reading Marathon Man and The Lion in Winter, and talk about names of animals in High Fantasy novels (like "zorses"), and respond to Susan's recent comments about genre, but I'm about out of time, so I'll bid you fondue for now.