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:: Saturday, July 02, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 7:21 PM [+] ::
We are currently playing Okage: the Shadow King -- very fun roleplaying game that has poorly translated English that you have to read to play it -- stars an "Evil King" named Stan who has possessed the shadow of theprotagonist -- you must battle ghosts to earn experience points to defeat the pretender "Evil Kings."
Tonight, we watch "North by Northwest" -- I am still working on the cinematic education of my children.
I have defeated a tricky level on "Enter the Matrix" (I am going back through all the titles I have been stuck on before I get more games) but I am stuck still on "Prince of Persia."
I am looking forward to trying out "Two Towers" (we traded in six games we never play at Rhino for three new games and $4.00 credit.
Time for dinner -- hope everyone is still enjoying their summers.
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:: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 ::
:: Calvin 8:47 PM [+] ::
Well, I have finished a few more books.
I read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, a fantastic book by Mark Haddon. It concerns a young man who is autistic, and his misadventures trying to solve the murder of a neighbor's dog, which leads to the disintegration of what is left of his family. Despite this fact. the book remains quite humorous, and a wonderful look through the eyes of someone who does not see things as we do.
I also read Basket Case by Hiaasen. This was not a Stranahan book, but it did have some great female characters -- it concerns a middle aged obituary writer obsessed with his own demise (he meticulously keeps track of everyone who died at his current age and that of his next birthday, so he can perpetually feel inadequate and on the brink of death. he investigates the murder of the lead singer of an old band called the "Slut Puppies" -- Jimmy Stoma. An imaginary single by the Slut Puppies appears on one of Warren Zevon's albums. A Skinkless Hiaasen is like a Thermos with milk when you expected juice.
I read The Sunday Philosophy Club as well, but I wish I hadn't. It was very literate -- the protagonist edited the "Journal of Applied Ethics" and read manuscript submissions during the novel. The ideas were lame and overwrought. The protagonist was also a miserable excuse for a progressive female character, continually whining about a lost love who treated her miserably and is an inveterate philanderer. This was a very yucky book.
To wash the taste of that one out of my mouth, I read the Alan Moore graphic novel V for Vendetta. This book is being made into a movie, but I can't figure out how or why. How can the Watchmen fall apart as it's being made, but a movie about a totalitarian state that has as its hero an insurgent who brings revolution and anarchy through a bombing campaign can get made with Natalie Portman?????? I mean, conservatives had issues with imagined political overtones in RoTS -- won't they have a field day with this? Aren't there more fertile and less politically dangerous stories to tell from canonical graphic novels? Where is Frank Miller's Ronin?
Where is Black Orchid? Where is Sandman? Hmmmmmpfff.
I am almost finished with a little puff piece called Revolution No. 9. It concerns a latterday Manson family, led by the megalomaniacal "Freeboot," whose 4 year old son is sick with diabetes. One of his followers has a physician for a father, so the group kidnaps the good doctor to help the little boy. The group attacks rich folk they refer to as "necks," and quote lines from the White Album --"Take this brother, may it serve you well." Suspenseful and fast moving -- unlike the abysmal Sunday Philosophy crap book.
Next I will probably read You Don't Know Me.
I am off now to play dominoes with the kiddos. Take this brothers (and sisters), may it serve you well.
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