Things are getting better on my rejection slip front. While I have not made any sales recently. (Sigh, two years.) I am now seeing frequent, though not constant, comments in my rejections slips. I do not always get the form rejection these days and I will call that an improvement.
The curious thing about writing for me is how much I avoid it before I get started. This, from what I hear, is not unique to me. In fact amongst SF writers I heard it gets called, ‘vacuuming the cat.’ That writers will come up with the most creative lists of thing that have to be done before they can get to work, such as vacuuming the cat.
I don;t make lists and excuses I just have a hard time avoiding the time sink that is the internet.
What’s curious, at least to me, is that once I have started it’s fun and I enjoy whatever process I am working on. Tonight I hemmed and hawed before settling down to work, but once I did I flew through ten pages of edits. ou would think something I enjoy wouldn’t be so hard to start.
So we are flying sorties and dropping explosives in yet another middle eastern country. really I do not see the pressing US National interest that compels this action.
I feel for the Libyan rebels. Their dictator is insane and I will not shed one tear for him when he finally is shoved off this mortal coil, but that doesn’t mean we should be the ones directly shoving. We have much more important matters to deal with, such as our debt and the coming crush of debt if we do not do something about our expenditures.
As far as the wars in the middle east, we should get out of them. Libya? Not our concern. Iraq, wasn’t a pressing need for that war to big with and it’s up to the Iraqis — whoever they are — to fix the situation. Afghanistan?, frankly I don’t care if that go back to playing stick and ball with each others heads, as long as there is not a base of operation for our enemies to operate out of.
Al Queda I think can be handled at the Special Forces level of military operations now, not the carrier group level. Let them fear the dark and the bad rough Americans who wait for them there, but let’s stop this foolish fighting the current war like it is the last one.
Because I was feeling poorly last night I was unable to watch a film before bed and so that means there is no Sunday Night Movie post for this week. To make up for that to my half dozen of so readers I will present a short review of the film Paul that my sweetie-wife and I saw yesterday morning.
Now, as you can see from the screen capture to the left, Paul is not a film that takes itself very seriously. Written by Simon Pegg and Nick frost, the talented writer/actor duo that brought us both Shawn of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, Paul is the story of an alien stranded on Earth and the friendly and not so friendly natives.
Where Shawn Of The Dead skewered the zombie genre and Hot Fuzz did the same to the buddy cop movie, Paul is this pair’s love letter to geek culture. I adored Shawn of The Dead, it is one of the best zombie movies every made while still being a top flight romantic-comedy. Provided you can handled fairly intense violence, I would not hesitate to recommend Shawn Of the Dead to you. Hot Fuzz did not work so well for me. I smirked and laughed a bit, but it was not as funny as Shawn Of the Dead and perhaps I was not the right audience. I admit that I seen few cop buddy films, so there could have been layers of humor just skimming above my headspace.
That was not the case with Paul.
Paul is a movie layered with geek references, they come at you visually, musically, franticly, and endlessly. The film opens and close with scenes set at the world famous San Diego Comic-Con. It is not a film that laughs at geeks, though the geeks perpetually fish out of water experience in the real world is a source of humor, but lovingly this film embraces the heart, soul, and intelligence that is at the heart of geek culture.
There is no doubt I will be buying this film on blu-ray, and I may go see it again in the theaters. I loved it just that much.
about 8:30 I started getting photophobic, with normal room lights seeming very bright. This is usually the precursor to a migraine for me. I does with 1/2 a dose of Rx.
No headache devloped and the photophobia abated.
Not feeling at my best right now. I’m not having a headache but it is a possibility.
There may not be a Sunday Night Movie thisweek, we shall see.
I do want to say if you love SF and geek culture then you absolutely should see Paul. I saw it this morning with my sweetie-wife and Love the entire film.
I spent a good chunk of Saturday morning setting up my new computer system, and iMac, and taking my old mac mini and setting it up for my sweetie-wife.
Tomorrow, I see Paul.
Depending on how the migration to the new iMac goes I may post later tonight, but there are 66 Gigs of data to move and this morning it still read that it woudl take more than 10 hours.
I will not be online tonight as I am migrating to a new a machine.
03/16/2011
about 7:30 began getting a headache as I watched a film which heavily used fish-eye lens and fast camera motions. Took 1 does of rx.
by 9:30 headache free.