Tag: movie

Also National Badger Day. Not sure whether that includes honey badgers, but they don’t care.

Marith wanted to bowl, so I rushed to the gooshyfood store and back to make sure I would not repurposed as cat food later in the week, and made it back in plenty of time to win at bowling (I was the only one to break 100) and steal Nonny’s fries. Then we went back to Monkeycat Towers to eat Thai food (mostly pad thai, since after all it is National Noodle Day) and watch Everything Everywhere All At Once, which is pretty much Marith’s favorite movie ever and one she hopes everybody will appreciate as much as her. I’m not sure that’s humanly possible, but it was well-received and gave Jus many feels. After the movie, we played the old party game of Sardines, but it was too spooky with the lights out and too easy with the lights on so eventually we stopped. I never found anybody, because Sardines is not as easy as bowling.

Written: 202.

Also Ken Day (Observed) but he doesn’t like people to make a big deal of it. We went over to help him watch MST3K, though.

Watched: MST3K: Space Mutiny. Mutiny on a generation ship is a simple concept that should be doable even in the 80s, so how did they make it so bad? Even in South Africa? The frame story was pretty nonsensical too. Because MST3K.

Written: 242.

“Cut down, not across.” (Like anyone remembers alt.sysadmin.recovery these days.)

Usually I don’t get much grief from vaccine side-effects, but the old-person vaccines I had to get yesterday are more obnoxious than most. Still better than either shingles or pneumonia, I’m pretty sure.

Even had I been minded to, I couldn’t have reasonably taken the day off sick since two people were out and one called in sick, but whatever. Fatigue and headache build character, right?

The high point of the day was definitely going with Marith to see Barbie. That was really quite something, even if I’m just Ken. (Actually, people said I have Allan energy, so :shrug emoji:.) Apparently some of the thing it was is Innana’s journey to the Underworld, so that’s awesome.

Written: FAIL.

Watched: Persuasion (1995): I think I’ve been radicalized by the Internet, because I mostly just want to send these people to the guillotine. The military people are slightly more sympathetic, because at least they do something, even if it’s mostly sailing around putting babies on flagpoles. (Okay, Anne’s not bad, just crushed down by her shitty society.)

Read: Lazy Dragon Queen vol 1 (Ace Arriande): Isekai romance between a completely OP dragon who assumes cute human form, the pocket universe she created, and the hapless gardener she demands as tribute. More wholesome than you might expect (assuming your expectations are not that high), and also completely ridiculous.

Read: Boo! It’s Sex! (Danielle Corestto, Monica Gallagher, Mae S Keller): 96 episodes of a ghost giving woefully ignorant college freshwomen sex ed and terrible jokes.

Read: The Witch and the Beast vol 8 (Kousuke Satake): End of the Vampire Level, I think. Honestly I’m getting kind of confused. Also why are we watching this vampire bozo beat people up instead of Gideau?

Written: 88 measly words.

Had to get up even earlier than the past few days to cover for for the UK team, who have a holiday today, and as a consequence got pretty much nothing done today.

Watched: Marith and I went to see Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was actually quite good, although either surreal or dadaist, or maybe both. Michelle Yeoh was great, of course, but everyone else was also good.

Read: Midnight Riot and Moon Over Soho (Ben Aaronovitch): I realized that I didn’t remember everything that happened before the ninth book, which obviously means it’s time for a complete series reread. I still really like them, although I’m pretty sure the second one has been silently edited since the last time I read it. Not sure what I think of that.

Words: I officially gave up on revising further, so I guess I should figure out how to put a file up for download. And what format, although PDF is easy and probably good enough.

Apparently the Republicans failed miserably yet again. Not that Newsom is great, but compared to everyone else on the ballot…

Watched: Shang-chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings: It was pretty swell! Non-white actors, female characters who kick all of the ass, non-English dialog, technoninjas, MIchelle Yeoh, no obligatory romance, training montages, mysterious creatures, the whole nine yards! See, Marvel, you can do it if you try!

Words: FAIL