Nov. 21st, 2006

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1) I've just started [livejournal.com profile] rezendi's book Dark Places; so far (after the first chapter), it's a good read with an interesting setting (Rezendi is a world traveller, and it shows) and an unconventional murder. (I almost wish I had a longer subway ride to work; that's my best time for reading these days.)

2) For a change, the writing in my fic is merely thickening, instead of congealing; I may actually get an installment or two in before the year turns. (And the Swordspoint fic, and the Harry Potter/Batman-Joker/Voldemort crossover, and the reworking of Dante's Inferno, as done by Dorothy Parker (this last was inspired by a comment made in one of the posts memorializing John M. Ford; while I can scarcely claim Ford's, Parker's, or Dante's way with words, it does seem a delightful notion), and the story I'm writing to prove a point about character development in slash, and and and...)

3) Whereas Thanksgivings are usually a quiet time at Casa del Coyote, involving something along the lines of Chinese food and a movie (my family is scattered across New England; we don't get together until Christmas), this year is going to include actual Thanksgiving-type food, a guinea pig, and the movie Halloween. Yay!
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Goodbye, Robert Altman. (That settles it; long past time to dig out my videotape of McCabe & Mrs. Miller.) (While I'm sad he's gone- I'll always regret that he didn't make Ragtime- he was right in saying he'd had a good shake: he only got M*A*S*H, the film that established him as a director, because 16 other directors had already turned the book down. What's more, the movie's producer, Ingo Preminger, said that if he'd ever seen Altman's previous movie, That Cold Day in the Park, he never would've hired Altman to direct it. The 80s were hard on Altman's career, as they were on the careers of most of the 70s superstar directors, but he endured, and triumphed with several good late films. Rest in peace, Mister Altman.)

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