I fiddled with this one word a little bit, so it’s not quite the same as the original I posted to the site itself. I wanted to get the character names right, and that required a bit of research.
Rocking Chair
one word — in which I do not write the thing I need to write for my grandmother’s birthday. Bah.
Spin
one word finds me in a cynical mood today.
The day in retrospect
Last night, I got the new sprinkler working where the old one hadn’t been functioning correctly for about a year, watched the Animatrix DVD (which does a great job of actually making Matrix 2 better and which I highly recommend for a number of other reasons), got to see a REALLY FUNNY Firefly episode (“Trash”) that I hadn’t before (which may have my new favorite Firefly quote, ever), did four and a half miles at the gym, and watched a bunch of Brimstone episodes on tape — one of which had the guy who played Jubal Early from Firefly’s Objects in Space.
Of course, I didn’t get any frelling SLEEP, but it was a good night.
Eye-opener
Neil Gaiman lists part of the original Comics Code
1) No comic magazine shall use the ord “horror” or “terror” in its title.
2) All scenes of horror, excessive bloodshed, gory or gruesome crimes, depravity, lust, sadism, masochism shall not be permitted.
3) All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated.
4) Inclusion of stories dealing with evil shall be used or or shall be published only where the intent is to illustrate a moral issue and in no case shall evil be presented alluringly nor so as to injure the sensibilities of the reader.
5) Scenes dealing with, or instruments associated with walking dead, torture vampires and vampirism, ghouls, cannibalism, and werewolfism are prohibited.
Cripes. That’s everything on my shelf. (Except for Bone, which would probably be banned for the title alone. Top 10 (thanks to ***Dave and Randy for showing me that) is probably the funniest, most light-hearted romp I’ve read in years, except for the pedophilia rings, blatant racism (from a lead character, even), difficult questions about alternate lifestyles, alien porn death conspiracies, my favorite character getting killed by drug-addled power-mad leaders-of-the-people.
hax0r
Downloading one of the three unaired episodes of Firefly right… now.
Repeating itself
So I was digging through my videotapes tonight, and I was reminded of a really good show I liked a lot.
Doomed, though.
See, it was a genre show. Great acting, really good cinematography, a concept that hadn’t really been done before, and a lot of really talented, dedicated people working on it.
But it aired on Fox. They put it in a crappy time slot and, get this, aired the episodes out of order — ruined the continuity of the thing. Show only aired about thirteen episodes before Fox cancelled it.
Firefly? Nah. Brimstone.
Reversed order
Third oneword, which seems to deal with something that happens before the other two — apparently, I’m (a) writing this in reverse and (b) in a Douglas Adams mood.