Enemy of Entropy

Happy November!

16 November 2008, 10:35 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Movies, Reading, politics.

I fig­ure it’s past time I check in again. Obvi­ously, I’ve given up on the Blog365 thing. I did make it 9 months or so, at least.

Katie turned 18 at the end of Octo­ber, so she voted in the elec­tion for the first time. I’m really tick­led that her first time was so his­toric! We’ll all be vot­ing in the Sen­ate run-​​off too, of course. I really hope Jim Mar­tin makes it.

I turned 42 this week. I never do under­stand peo­ple moan­ing about get­ting older, reach­ing a par­tic­u­lar age. It’s cer­tainly bet­ter than the alter­na­tive, right?

I haven’t been read­ing near as much lately, because my eyes don’t want to focus and I have trou­ble con­cen­trat­ing. I’m re-​​reading C.J. Cherryh’s For­eigner series, since it’s eas­ier to fol­low some­thing familiar.

I fell into watch­ing NCIS some­how, prob­a­bly because I got all caught up on all three CSIs. I’ve watched True Blood, but I don’t like it nearly as much as the orig­i­nal nov­els by Char­laine Har­ris. It’s much darker, and nobody is nearly as nice/​sympathetic. I don’t even like Sookie much, Sam Mer­lotte is an ass, and Jason – god­dess, why give that waste of flesh so much screen time? Why all the added empha­sis on sex and sub­stance use? As usual, the South­ern accents are abominable.

I started watch­ing sea­son 3 of Dex­ter, but I’m just not enjoy­ing it as much as the first sea­son, for some reason.

So then I was lured into watch­ing Crim­i­nal Minds, largely due to Eliz­a­beth Bear’s reg­u­lar episode reviews (posted to her LJ).

At this very moment, Sam and Katie and I are watch­ing the first DVD of Car­nivàle. That is one weird, but beau­ti­ful, show. The preacher char­ac­ter looks a lot like our friend James Jowers.

Sam and I watched Iron Man Fri­day night, I think it was. It was fun, but loud. Good thing I didn’t try to see it in the theater!

4 Comments »

  1. avatar Dena Shunra. 17 November 2008, 12:20 am

    Wow, I can’t get my mind around the fact that Katie’s old enough to vote — that is so awe­some, for her and for Amer­ica! Shachaf is a year younger than she is, but of course, I see him grow daily.

    Happy birth­day to you, belatedly.

    And did you see my new project? (link in the web address). I’m putting together a team within my com­pany that will be ded­i­cated to trans­lat­ing new media: blogs, twit­ter streams, youtube and other videos. It’s very excit­ing, and appar­ently quite rare: most peo­ple assume that all blog­gers blog solely for fun, and are just sur­prised if their ven­tures make money.
    Con­de­scen­sion is a very bad busi­ness prac­tice… …I hope to pick up the mar­ket that other trans­la­tion agen­cies can’t even see.

  2. avatar HopeEvey. 17 November 2008, 12:28 am

    Always lovely to hear from you!

    And yes — what a won­der­ful way to start voting!

    I’m glad to read your review of True Blood. I got all excited when I heard it was based on Ms. Har­ris’ nov­els — now I’ll know to keep my expec­ta­tions low. It’s a pity, really — it doesn’t seem like it would be hard to do it well.

  3. avatar Slash. 17 November 2008, 10:15 am

    Very inter­est­ing review of True Blod.

  4. avatar cyn. 17 November 2008, 5:27 pm

    Dena, I have trou­ble believ­ing she’s “grown up” too :-)

    I didn’t know about your new ven­ture, but I vis­ited and it looks fascinating!

 

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