Project Kickstarter and Stuff
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lydamorehouseFirst of all, I have to let people know that an anthology my short story "God Box" is going to appear in is doing one of those kick-starter things, so if you're inclined, please help them out at: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/king-david-the-spiders-from-mars-tales-of-biblical-terror. The anthology is a follow up to SHE NAILED A STAKE THROUGH HIS HEAD, which featured Biblical horror stories. This one will be called KING DAVID AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS. My story, alas, takes place on Ganymede, and while it doesn't feature any spiders, does retell the golden hemorrhoids story. Because golden hemorrhoids are horror.
In other news, I've been somewhat incommunicato because Mason returned from Indiana with a cough that was very reminiscent of Whooping Cough. So, we kept him out of school for the past few days until the test results from the clinic came back. I'm pleased to be able to say that they were negative. He's back at school today--although very, VERY bummed about it. I thought we might be out a while so I took him to the library yesterday and we had a little checking out "accident" of about twenty-one books. And, yes, he'll read most of them by the time they're due back--partly because at least five of those were Toriko manga, all of which he finished yesterday before bedtime.
Mason is not fond of school. It cuts into his reading time.
My only other "news" is that Shawn and I finally watched "Magic Mike," the stripper film. I should preface my review by saying, you know, I like pretty men. I like watching pretty men get semi-naked. Yeah, I'm a lesbian, but I can appreciate all the glistening rock-hard abs and whatnots. But OMG THIS FILM WAS BORING. Let me give you some sample dialogue: "So... um, like, hey." [long pause] "Hey."
I'm not making this up. It was as if the director decided to be "artsy" and go for hyper-realistic dialogue. That can be cool, but ONLY IF THE CHARACTERS AREN'T MORONS. Seriously, the two main characters Mike and Adam have mind-numbingly stupid conversations for hours. Most of which were made up of those kind of grasping, half-finished sentences that dripped into other thoughts without any context or preamble. Characters who were "fast talkers," ie anyone who completed a sentence in less than twelve hours, really stood out. Okay, that's an exaggeration, because it couldn't have possibly been actual _hours_, because the film is only a couple of hours long, but holy shit it felt like a glacial age was passing before these two dolts of supposedly sympathetic main characters said anything of substance. Oh, and I should say that substance usually was signaled by, "Shit. Fucking shit, man."
Yeah.
And the there was dancing.
The dancing was fine, honestly, as it picked up the pace of this film by lightspeed jumps, and Matthew McConaughy's charcter had potential. Actually, they all did, but the story was hampered by DULLNESS. The love interest spends half her time looking so depressed to be there that I finally decided she was a symbol of THE AUDIENCE.
Shawn kept saying to me, "Can we turn it off now?" I doggedly said, "No! It will get better! People said this had a story!"
People LIE.
In other news, I've been somewhat incommunicato because Mason returned from Indiana with a cough that was very reminiscent of Whooping Cough. So, we kept him out of school for the past few days until the test results from the clinic came back. I'm pleased to be able to say that they were negative. He's back at school today--although very, VERY bummed about it. I thought we might be out a while so I took him to the library yesterday and we had a little checking out "accident" of about twenty-one books. And, yes, he'll read most of them by the time they're due back--partly because at least five of those were Toriko manga, all of which he finished yesterday before bedtime.
Mason is not fond of school. It cuts into his reading time.
My only other "news" is that Shawn and I finally watched "Magic Mike," the stripper film. I should preface my review by saying, you know, I like pretty men. I like watching pretty men get semi-naked. Yeah, I'm a lesbian, but I can appreciate all the glistening rock-hard abs and whatnots. But OMG THIS FILM WAS BORING. Let me give you some sample dialogue: "So... um, like, hey." [long pause] "Hey."
I'm not making this up. It was as if the director decided to be "artsy" and go for hyper-realistic dialogue. That can be cool, but ONLY IF THE CHARACTERS AREN'T MORONS. Seriously, the two main characters Mike and Adam have mind-numbingly stupid conversations for hours. Most of which were made up of those kind of grasping, half-finished sentences that dripped into other thoughts without any context or preamble. Characters who were "fast talkers," ie anyone who completed a sentence in less than twelve hours, really stood out. Okay, that's an exaggeration, because it couldn't have possibly been actual _hours_, because the film is only a couple of hours long, but holy shit it felt like a glacial age was passing before these two dolts of supposedly sympathetic main characters said anything of substance. Oh, and I should say that substance usually was signaled by, "Shit. Fucking shit, man."
Yeah.
And the there was dancing.
The dancing was fine, honestly, as it picked up the pace of this film by lightspeed jumps, and Matthew McConaughy's charcter had potential. Actually, they all did, but the story was hampered by DULLNESS. The love interest spends half her time looking so depressed to be there that I finally decided she was a symbol of THE AUDIENCE.
Shawn kept saying to me, "Can we turn it off now?" I doggedly said, "No! It will get better! People said this had a story!"
People LIE.
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Date: 2013-06-20 04:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-06-20 05:32 pm (UTC)What's weird to me is that I had straight women telling me, "Oh, you've got to see 'Magic Mike' it's sooooo hot." I didn't even see much of that, and I do like me some hot men, so I dunno.