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1. I appear to have been on completely different wave-lengths with people lately. So different, that it is amazing that we are communicating at all. Oh well.

Wales and I both wimped out on the movie bit this weekend, but never fear -- we'll probably do it next weekend. Parasite is coming back to the Cobble Hill Theater on January 17.
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2. Wandered about today. ( Read more... )

3. Still watching Emergence -- anyone else still watching Emergence? It's gotten better...and there's about two or three episodes before Season finale. Remember when all these series ended in May? Well, those days are gone. Now we have series ending in January and news starting up in January and February.

Emergence didn't have that many episodes ordered apparently. My gut says it won't see a second season, but I could be wrong.

It's gotten kind of convoluted plot-wise. And I still like the cast. But I'm not sure the plot works.

4. I'm thinking of giving up on the Romance Genre. It's becoming tiresome. I'm beginning to need more than...I think he loves me, I think she loves me...oh this is impossible, oh maybe not...oh, oh...lots of hot and somewhat ridiculous sex...maybe he loves me, maybe she loves me...more sex...conflict about either a nasty former suitor, brother, father, etc...misunderstanding...he/she doesn't love me how can they!...forgiveness...maybe they do?...hot sex...I love you, I love you...resolved with either a baby or a wedding, the end.

Chef - movie review & the RWA fight

1. Finished watching Chef on Amazon Prime -- this is the movie that was written, directed, produced and starred in by Jon Favreau, also stars Sophie Veraga (Modern Family) John Leguizmo (sp?), Robert Downy Jr, Bobby Carniaval, Scarlett Johannsen, Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, and Amy Sedaris. Apparently Favreau cast all his friends?

It's good. Nice feel-good flick about a Chef who gets into a fight with a restaurant critic on Twitter, has a career melt-down, takes off to Miami to look after his son while his ex-wife works -- and is convinced by his ex-wife to get a loan from her former ex-husband to start a food-truck. The former ex-husband finds a beaten up but still usable food truck for him to clean-up and use.

I enjoyed it -- the film focuses on the relationship between the father and son, which builds through the food truck and the father's love of cooking. Favereau enjoyed learning to cook so much on the film -- that he decided to do a cooking series on Netflix -- entitled Chef, where he travels about with his food truck and learns to cook various cusines, with his mentor in tow.

It's really a romance between the father and son, and well food. With John Leguizamo along for the ride.

Enjoyable and left a smile on my face. If you get a chance, worth a view.

It also, and this is worth stating, does a great indictment of Twitter. Showing how it is best used as merely a marketing platform. And how easily things can get out of hand on it. You hit reply to someone, and it goes viral. You really have to be careful what you say. Things can be taken out of context or easily retweeted without a second's thought.

And much like JUDY, CHEF gets across how nasty and fickle the consumer can be. And how damaging it is to the artist. Critics aren't necessarily helpful to artists.
And a good review can become a bad one within the blink of an eye.

2. Regarding twitter...bookshop has a very detailed Time Line of the Events That Lead Up to the Implosion of the Romance Writer's Association . This is actually the most detailed and factual analysis of what has happened to date. It clarifies a lot of things. It's kind of similar to what happened to the HUGOS in the sci-fi fandom actually. The Romance genre and the Sci-Fi genre have more in common than either likes to admit.
Also, not that different than what happened with comics a few years back.

I'm finding the pattern interesting...mainly because sooner or later it's going to hit the big time.