Negativity and hope, locked in an eternal struggle featuring titty twisters.
the peripheral
10/22 '22
I'm having a tough time enjoying the first two episodes on their own merits. The departures from the book seem to grate me more than, say, the first season of American Gods (of which i was reminded by the intro sequence, same feel, except for the bit they lifted from The Expanse's intro).
and just like that, they're married
9/1 '22
Our son married his sweetie, who wore a dress made by my sweetie.
idiot box
7/5 '22
If you have CBS All Access^W^W^WParamount Plus, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is everything you liked about old Star Trek plus all the coolness of the newer Treks.
If you have Showtime, The Man Who Fell to Earth is fantastic. Chiwetel Ejiofor deserves all the awards.
todas las cosas en toda parte al mismo tiempo
4/10 '22
Everything Everywhere All At Once is absolutely amazing. We braved going to the theater for the first time since "Parasite" and it was more than worth it.
family in the news, long ago
2/15 '22
Marguerite is married to my mother-in-law's cousin. She is even more delightful in person than this 35yo recipes writeup in the NYT describes. We hope to see her and Gary soon.
2021 in music
2/10 '22
I wrote it somewhere else.
d.a.r.e. to get your ass out of bed
2/7 '22
Earlier this week, my calf cramped as i was waking up and i couldn't get it to release while remaining in bed, so i got out of bed to stand on that foot and force it to relax. Unfortunately, i declared victory too soon and it kicked back, tipping me to the side and knocking me on my ass, much to Kim's concern, but i was unhurt. By this point, my adrenalin had kicked in hard and, after finally putting an end to the cramp, i was awake and sweating. After that, i headed to the toilet and, as i finished up, i felt quite ill as i felt the adrenalin rush recede. I staggered back to bed and lay there nauseous and shivering, breathing shallowly until the feeling passed.
Anyway, don't do drugs, kids, because the comedown is a doozy.
the decay of desire
11/4 '21
It feels like aging is discovering which things that you used to do for fun are no longer enjoyable.
you know what day it is today?
5/26 '21
It's fully baked COVID immunity day, kids! And Sunday was our anniversary. So tapas tonight.
what time is it, kids?
3/23 '21
Amusingly, I'd pictured Wilf as an actor I can't quite identify - someone who looks a bit like 90's Quentin Tarantino, but isn't; there's a specific actor I have in my head but can't place him. And this isn't to say "but of course a major character is a white man" - it's more to do with whatever sort of character this actor got stereotypically cast as. I wish I could figure out who exactly it is.
I've started rereading the book because I basically couldn't help myself.
In re: the differences, I think the book takes a bit of time to get to the fact that the future is, like, _the future_. Given that it's a HUGE HOOK I can see why they pulled that right back into the start of the TV series.
I'm also now wondering if that means they'll try to fit the whole book into "Season 1", and keep "Season 2" for Agency? I would like that, if only because it'd preclude this going the way of American Gods.
(I am _so_ disappointed that that ground to a halt.)
Changing Wilf from a dodgy PR liar to an assertive fixer still strikes me as off.
AG was such a clusterfuck (and i was into the departures from the book in that case).
My department briefly considered buying one for me when I started working remotely in 2015. We couldn't figure out how I would operate the elevators though.