"Jason vs. Freddy vs. Ash? That's the rumor floating around this pile of clutter we call the internet.
My advice, don't hold your breath. Chances are, we'll be seeing Joanie Loves Chachi Loves Ash first.
In other words, nothing to report on our end."
Probably for the best. Though I would have looked forward to Freddie attacking Ash in his dreams, what would he dream about?
I've seen the trailer for Hero and it certainly looked impressive, and New York Times movie section had an article about the use of colors in the movie but talked a bit about the plot; it sounded Rashoman(sp?)-ish - the same story told from several points of view.
I'd like to see it in a theatre but I haven't seen a theatrical movie since Return of the King, so I'm not holding out much hope.
It's tough getting to the movies. Amy let me slip out a few times for movies since Molly was born, and I did the same for her. We let one another see Harry Potter and Fahrenheit 9/11. But I haven't gotten to see Spider Man yet.
Hero does look like it would be good on the big screen though. I saw that NYT article as well. I was impressed that Jet Li is actually staring in a GOOD movie again. Am I the only one who thinks that the worst thing he ever did in his career was start making American movies?
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I like the blog. Do you mind comments to your posts? I found the Justice and Desert topic intriguing.
I also followed the links to the blog where the guy was critiquing Left Behind; in Borders once I read a few pages of the first book and decided the only way it would be bearable is if two robots and a smartass were seated in the foreground providing a running commentary.
But on the theme of popular literature, I recently read The Rule of Four but halfway through gave up on it; there is only so much Princeton trivia I care to know. I skipped to the end so I'll know how the movie comes out.
Kinga just got The Da Vinci Code out of the library. I've gone through a couple chapters. The writing's annoying but nothing a good editor wouldn't have fixed. Lots of unnecessary exposition. Can't comment on the plot yet; best part about the book is it pissed off Hank Hanegraaff - "The Bible Answer Man". I can't think of a better recommendation for it.
Oh, I love comments. I'm trying to get more people reading it. So spread the word around if you know anyone who might be interested. Comments are great.
Yeah, those left behind articles are very good. It's much more entertaining and thought provoking than actually reading the novels. I remember a friend giving me the book a while ago, and I just couldn't make it past the first few pages. The writing was terrible!
I might enjoy the Princeton trivia in "Rule of Four" more than you, having lived there for four years. I'm not rushing to DaVinci code any time soon.
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I'm leaving Saturday to go camping in Wyoming. I'll be away from the internet for a week. I plan to read a lot. Kinga is already complaining about being away from a shower.
Have you seen D20 Future yet? I've been looking for it in stores. I thought it might be my next purchase but I've been looking over my GURPS / Space Opera conversion and can't think of how it would be better as D20. If I could only find someone to play it with, but Heinz is showing greater stamina as a GURPS GM than I'd expected.
d20 Future looks intereting, especially since I just saw "Aliens" last night. That would be a cool setting. Leave out the "bug-hunt" dimension and just have the "grunts working for the company" dimension, throw in all sorts of hard sci-fi stuff and the occasional alien encounter. It could be very cool.
No psionics though.
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My campaign idea is more star-trekish. A small ship on the edge of explored space. I thought of a campaign arc earlier today when the third cup of coffee kicked in that owes equal parts to heinlen and bradbury.
I'll be mulling it over all through the camping trip. No internet for a week. Not sure how I'll make it. See you a week from Sunday.
Monty Python was right, you wouldn't want to come home to a dead cat.
We came home to an almost dead cat and he snuffed it on the way to the vet's. We're not sure why. I've been out for the last hour trying to dig a deep enough hole to bury him in the garden where he'd sleep all the time.
Burying a black cat in the back garden by the light of a full moon; this is suggestive of something, curing warts in Tom Sawyer or the start of a Stephen King novel.
The camping trip was a bust. Kinga lasted one night and made me take her and Andras back to Idaho Falls where it was warm. So we stayed at my parent's house for a week watching the olympics and playing with Andras while my 75-year-old parents endured the cold and rain in the Wyoming mountains and caught a lot of fish. We now know why the Hungarians haven't won a war in 500 years.
I'm halfway through Da Vinci Code and have to return it to the library tomorrow which is just as well as the book is giving me a stomach ache. Dan Brown makes these supposedly bright protagonists the most stunningly dense characters committed to paper.
I'm at a point where they are trying to get into a safety deposit box but don't know a crucial ten-digit account number. They spend some time bemoaning the fact they don't know the account number until it occurs to one of them that this must be the ten-digit number scrawled on the wall in the Louvre by a dying man a couple hours before.
Duh.
The whole damn book seems to be like this. One of the bad guys is an albino assassin. I may be way off here, but when I'm put in charge of an evil conspiracy, I'm hiring assassins who look William Macy or Steve Buscemi so when the police are questioning the witnesses all they'll be able to say is, "Uh, a white guy with dark hair"" instead of, "An albino with ing red eyes."
Sheesh.
And the conspiracy itself, but I can't talk about how ridiculous this is without treading into spoiler territory . . .
Hey guys. Sorry I've been tuned out. Classes are starting. I'm hoping to get back to regular posting over the weekend.
You guys don't know what you're missing here in Chicago. Two words: Obama v. Keyes. Look it up if you want some fun.
By the way, we do need to exercise a degree of care about what we discuss as long as this forum is public. No swear words and little on politics. This is part of the ENWorld "Don't say anything Eric Noah's grandmother would disapprove of" policy.
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I've read the Divinci Code. I find it interesting to note that Dan Brown is being sued by the author of Daughter of God for plagerism. It was one of those books that made me go Eh.
Sorry I haven't been around. I just got off the bus from our game at Madison and I'm too wound up to sleep. Football is taking up the normal amount of time and my student teacher is taking up even more. Thank God I'm married now so I'm not running the road to see Amy on top of it all.
When I'm coherent I'll get online and post to the game.
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