Internet on the 16th, I hope. I can go back to being loquacious ...

[quietprofanity]

- Learned that Normie is still alive ... Liz Osborn apparently divorced Harry and took the son with her. What's this world coming to? Anyway, I don't feel like doing the fanfic now. I'm sorry, guys. :-( That was my big driving point, and part of the fun of fanfic is trying to fix things within the "rules" but by now it's kind of like playing that game in A Separate Peace.

Dan Slott looks like he's making lemons into tasty lemonade. Lots of people want to drink but ... eh, I'm still annoyed. I feel like Annie Wilkes being unable to get over Rocketman. (Except I don't have an urge to chop Joe Quesada's foot off. No, really. I don't. I don't lack that much perspective.)

- Also got an idea for LoEG in anime times ... Eva can be demi-Lovecraft Gods wrapped up in armor and that's why Shinji and Asuka are crazy. Lupin III and Cutey Honey can pursue Allan and Mina. Eastasia was Japan lying, saying they won the war and they send the kids on an island to kill each other. The world looks like Tokyo-3 and everyone has a persocom. Also jokes about why the country can't manage to kill a giant lizard.

But then it kind of felt like too much work ... and kind of corny. And I can ape anarchist themes but I don't think I can really turn the medium on its head the way it deserves to be turned. Oh well.

- Why do I want to ape anarchist themes, anyway? I'm not much of an anarchist. I don't really think I have much of a unique worldview. Other than, like, the world has internal rot. But not in this Don DeLillo sense where evil suburban commercialism has sucked the life out of us. Just because your neighbor might attack your kid doesn't mean the fun birthday party you shared with your other neighbor doesn't have any meaning ... if you catch my drift.

- This last weekend was my own personal Shakespeare weekend. I watched my four-hour Ken Branagh Hamlet, and then the commentary, and then the documentaries, and then the previews (Olivier's Othello make-up makes him look puke green or purple ... not very black), and then I read about half of King Lear. It made me a little crazy, I think. But I'm having fun.

- Dad bought the dogs over to visit. It wasn't as disastrous as I expected.

- Dear Romance Novel Community: The Smart Bitches and Nora Roberts' hardball line on plagiarism has made me respect the romance novel community far more than this bleating about being nice does. That Mrs. Giggles is saying this really makes me boggle.

- I HAVE ONLY 40 UNREAD BOOKS! YAY! YAY! YAY! :D :D :D

- Oh, I like ... have a pet now. He's a fish named Reggie and since he's a beta he hates me. But I haven't managed to kill him yet, so that's a good sign. This was all my Dad's idea; since we as humans eat fish (I actually ate fish TODAY) keeping others as pets shows a sign of outright lunacy as a species. But oh well.

Comments

...a "beta"?

[47nite.livejournal.com]

King Lear's fun. But I suppose all of the Bard's work is good when put through the proper filters of contemporary academia... :3

(My college class had to read A Thousand Acres as a supplement to Lear, though. D: Mehh~ it was mostly just "See? Goneril and Regan were just misunderstood, and here's why [...!]") The plot twist in THAT book will definitely drive you crazy. ^^;

Re: ...a "beta"?

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

Beta is a fighting fish. Reggie thinks I'm an evil giant that sometimes feeds him.

I finished King Lear last night. I had some inflated expectations of it, and it's still not my favorite Shakespeare (Macbeth still holds that title), but I still managed to get emotional at a few parts in the play (the eye-plucking and Lear's death scene).

I think Goneril and Regan could be very interesting portrayed by the right actresses, but I don't think they're "just misunderstood" by any means. I wouldn't want them to be, either. They pretty much should be evil.

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

If you can, try to get a hold of Peter Brooks' 1971 film version of his Royal Shakespeare Company LEAR, starring Paul Scofield (who had worked with him in MAN FOR ALL SEASONS).

So INCREDIBLY good, kiddo.

(and I know this is an affront, but the Slott Spidey is really pretty good - and hey, MJs a superheroine now. Just think of it as an extended AU until Quesada gets his papers).

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I'll keep that in mind.

(As for Spidey, I may wait for the papers and then buy the trades.)

[badficwriter.livejournal.com]

You don't have an email address listed and I don't use the online chat feature thingy--and I wasn't sure if you'd notice messages sent to your lj account--so I thought I'd write via this slightly dated comment.

Some people in the Spider-man slash communities were looking for an old fic supposedly dramatizing Peter Parker's encounter with Skip Westcott, from the old anti-child abuse giveaway comic, and rabican says you wrote it, under a different name. I thought I'd take my hat in hand and ask if we could see it?

[quietprofanity.livejournal.com]

I do have it ... somewhere. I think on my old flash drive, but I'll continue looking for it. Anywhere in particular you want it sent?

[badficwriter.livejournal.com]

My email address is Lamashtar@aol.com

If you forget it, they'd love to see it at one of the Spiderman comms and I'd come across it eventually.