Do you have a movie, musician, TV show or book (some other form of media) that you love beyond what is reasonable. It bears endless re-reading, watching, listening, playing etc. You can’t help but blather about it, and try (possibly obnoxiously) to push it on all your friends? I have a few of these, some of them I can’t even tell if they are good or bad through my rosey-eyed glasses of love. I sometimes feel bad about how often I probably have told you of their awesomeness, how I can start to say 5 words about it, and then [...]
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Apr 022009
Who watched the watchmen?
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Mar 312009
We did! I really liked this movie, but I think I can see where some people’s complaints came from. Imho the problem wasn’t with the movie, but with the audiences, and what they expect when they see a “comic book” movie or a “superhero” movie. Compared to the movie we usually get when there are costumed crime fighters, this was a very different animal. Much more oriented towards the character’s motivations and navigating moral grey areas. I did not read the graphic before seeing the movie, I wanted to be able to judge the movie on its own merits. So [...]
Feb 132008
Which is exactly what I have done for a while. I am not quite sure how much back on earth I am yet – but I thought I would mention that I am at least in orbit these days. One of the things that has kept me away from posting is a lack of camera. I purchased a brand new one last fall, and after taking a number of great pictures of projects that I hadn’t had time to munge and post – I lost the camera. GRRRRR I am currently brainstorming ideas for posting knitting and spinning content without [...]
