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‘Demeter’s Daughter.’

Demeter’s Daughter, Anne Lister

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Watched a surprising amount of TV this weekend.

And hit the movies too, of course. Apparently I needed to do that. Still, gotta get back onto the writing rotation tomorrow. I got four chapters’ worth of edits to do, a monthly story to write, and a sampler to finish. Whee!

…It beats digging ditches or picking through garbage heaps, though. It beats it by a lot. Something I should always remember.

Tweet of the Day, A Rare Sports Entry edition.

I know just enough about horse racing to be surprised. I mean, literally: whoa. That, folks, is what 80-1 odds paying off looks like.

What's great is the total disconnect between what WE are seeing on-screen (and already know in advance to look for) versus the announcers. All the way to the end, they don't even notice Rich Strike until "WTF? WHERE DID HE COME FROM?" because they didn't have our angle.

— Jeff B. is *BOX OFFICE POISON* (@EsotericCD) May 8, 2022

Book of the Week: The Family Business.

Some folks were saying nice things about Mike Kupari’s The Family Business, so I decided to give it a whirl. Bounty hunter tracking down human collaborators after an attempted alien invasion of Earth; I’m about 10% in, and it’s pretty good so far. The cover has very little to do with the book itself, but that’s just one of Baen Books’ little ways. You get used to it.

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My Mini-review of DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS.

Short version: Sam Raimi’s back.

Slightly longer version: Sam Raimi hasn’t directed anything since OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, and now I’m wondering whether I should maybe sit down to watch that after all. It’s for sure it won’t be most of a decade before Raimi directs another movie, this time. DOCTOR STRANGE IN THE MULTIVERSE OF MADNESS is very much a Raimi joint: expect a sometimes comic take on gore, body horror, and dead people. I mention this solely because somebody was whining about this on social media, which is roughly equivalent to whining about the fact that a Kurosawa film featured swordplay. Neighbor, what were you expecting?

Anyway, fun flick if you like the idea of Sam Raimi being given a lot of money to screw around with the MCU. So, as you might imagine: I had a grand old time.

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Taking the rest of the night off.

Got THE ETERNALS on and… it’s not too bad, really. If you’re into people looking on in the middle of various Kirbyesque landscapes. It’s kind of goofy and pretty weird and I liked it more than I expected.

But it’s eating up the rest of the night. So I’m taking a break for the rest of it.

Finished up HAWKEYE today.

Chewing through all the MCU stuff I haven’t seen yet, because tomorrow or Sunday is gonna be DOCTOR STRANGE. After this, I watch ETERNALS tonight, which should catch me up completely. Probably unnecessary, but what the heck. I should relax sometimes.

Anyway, HAWKEYE was fun. I worried going in that Kate Bishop would be written as this god-tier replacement who would show Clint Barton how it’s really done, but instead we got a buddy cop series. Or ‘buddy secret agent’ series, maybe? Anyway, Clint doesn’t need to be taught the power of friendship, because he’s well aware how powerful it is; so powerful, in fact, that it’s left a few pieces behind in his soul. And Kate is commendably bandaged and rumpled by the end of the series; perfect, she is not.

All in all, HAWKEYE is a fun series that reminds itself on a regular basis that, geez, it’s Christmas. I should have finished it earlier.

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The BLADE RUNNER RPG Kickstarter.

I’m not sure if I’m backing the BLADE RUNNER RPG yet. It looks nice, but I’m not playing the games I have now. On the bright side, at the time of writing the Kickstarter has clocked in at just over 27,400 m$d$ ($1,151 million), so it doesn’t need my money. That’s always a relief.

‘Fast Car.’

Fast Car, Tracy Chapman

Hmm. DOCTOR STRANGE in 3D?

On the one hand, I watched the last one in 3D, because I figured it’d be trippy (and I was right). On the other hand, I hear that this DOCTOR STRANGE is less trippy and more weird. And on the gripping hand… the theater I usually go to doesn’t really have a 3D option, and the closest theater that does isn’t a really good theater.

I still have time to think about it, at least; I’m not going to see it until the weekend.

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