Archive - 2009

So I gave in and saw Avatar today with the gal and my oldest brother (not the crazy one) & co. In Real-D, not IMAX 3D. Some observations:
The plot was paper thin and the story was as crippled as the protagonist. Who? What? Why? Where? all thrown out the window.
Very much the standard "Chosen One" BS we've been getting for far too long. Another stunner is the use of the "Samurai" described in Michael Moorcocks 'Starship Stormtroopers' essay: he rejects their training and education, he doesn't need it-he has superior instinct.
Real shockers from James Cameron.

[19:08] Lamont-Cranston: Houston is city that has based its transportation on the car, they must spend a billion a year on new roads and road works to keep ahead of the congestion
[19:08] PrometheanStardustQC: I don't know about Houston, but I know there's no reason roads wouldn't work just fine without rail

My new home cinema is now complete, and tonight officially opened with a showing of David Lynch's 1984 masterpiece, "Dune".

Here are some photos of the cinema.

Yeowie helped with setting everything up, here he is directing where the speaker cable should be placed.

In the last three book buying trips since mid November-ish I've picked up:
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Fantasy Masterworks #32 The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
Trouble is my Business - Raymond Chandler
Penguin Classics The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gather, Darkness* - Fritz Leiber
The Green Millennium*
The Wanderer*
Ship to the Stars*
Night of the Wolf*
A Spectre is Haunting Texas*
Our Lady of Darkness*
Changewar*
Interfaces, an anthology of Speculative Fiction* edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd

[00:00] <@Tigger_> what's wrong with expensive oil?
[00:00] <+Lamont-Cranston> its expensive?

Friday night Venkmans vicious ribbing was interrupted by a suggestion he introduce me to the joys he partakes in during the long nights he spends clubbing:
is this man Venkmans doppelganger? Is he the only one capable of ending this madness?
No further word came from Venkman, we thought his feelings had been hurt. We were wrong.
Using arcane rituals and practices learned in the Dark Lands from worshipers of the Old Ones, the fiend that was once Venkman has hijacked my IRC name!

<LamontCranston> a well organised diverse public transportation network would provide ample freedom of movement
<TownPlanningDenier> freedom to move when and where they give permission, such as no trains between 12-5AM
<LamontCranston> who is traveling at 3am
<TownPlanningDenier> <LamontCranston> Citizen, do you have any legitimate reason to be outside your living compartment at this hour?

<boomernang> LamontCranston: ever been into the city on a friday night after 2am? millions of people walking around hunting for a taxi scattered or drunk - or driving home

Here is a very manly steak. Sprinkle with ground black pepper, salt and olive oil. (or lard if you are strum). Never trim the fat off, this is a very evil practice.

<+Warren1984> would you fuck the vacuum cleaner
<+Warren1984> I tried it once
<+Warren1984> fuck it really does pull your cock
<+Warren1984> and it hurts
<@Tigger_> really Warren1984?
<+Warren1984> it's not pleasurablable at all
<+Warren1984> yeah
<+Warren1984> try it
<@Tigger_> were you injured?
<+Warren1984> nuh
<+Warren1984> but it hurt
<@Tigger_> did you have to go to the emergency ward, and sit besides Wayne while he had a chook removed?
<+PrometheanStardust> Most vaccum cleaners are too small for that, anyway