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Eh...things
1. Dead tired. Too many projects...had to do some boxing up of proposals, so I could actually find my desk. Cubicle is not big enough for the amount of work I'm doing. Two of the projects have been inherited from someone else - and they are huge. Oh well, being overwhelmed and busy is so much better than not being busy work-wise. But..I read somewhere, I think it was greenmaia (?), that will power requires a lot of energy. And once you tax it...there goes your will power. This may explain why...by the time I get home, make myself make dinner, make myself take care of bills, and handle work of the day, and other commitments, I have no will-power left over to get myself to the gym, or do other things. Too frigging exhausted. Actually, today? I just want to sleep. Have a tension/sinus headache. Tis the season.
2. The Buffy comics...sigh, should I even comment on this? Is it worth the grief? All I will say is this: Methinks Joss Whedon and comic books are unmixy things, unless of course he is working for Marvel, who has fascist editors from hell, who apparently apply hot coals to wayward writers feet to ensure success. Dark Horse unfortunately appears to employ the cast of H & R Puff'n Stuff and My Little Pony as their editors. So, writers have a lovely, stress-free environment to work.
Personally? I stopped bothering with comics after the plot in S8, along with all the characters, took a flying leap off the proverbial cliff, and to the best of my knowledge hasn't landed yet. I love the Buffy tv series completely, I actually like Angel, specifically S4 and S5. Firefly is okay, although it feels like Star Wars meets Ayn Rand by way of Gunsmoke written by a distracted and somewhat flaky comic book geek. Dollhouse...eh, a mess. The Astonishing X-Men comics aren't bad - as long as you skip over the whole DangerRoom arc (the plotting of which I suppose should have warned me about Buffy S8). Dr. Horrible is a great, and somewhat ironic considering the above, take on the superhero comic book genre. It sort of flips it inside out.
So for me? Canon ends with Chosen on Buffy and Not Fade Away on Angel. The comics are fanfic. Or Whedon attempting to turn his creation into a pet, but it just keeps yelling at him instead. And as a result, we've got a mess.
YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary Of Course...but I'm grumpy and tired and don't want to hear it, so shoo.)
3. Hunger Games has clocked in at 302.4 million in three weeks. To put this in perspective? Dr. Seuss The Lorax has made 198.2 million in 6 weeks. Internationally though, it has only made 157.1 million - not surprising. My private hope is that it will win the blockbuster contest of the summer, kicking the Avengers, Dark Knight, Spider Man and Men in Black 3's collective asses.
4. Hee...Mark Watches can't figure out why Primeval isn't the season finale and what the writer can possibly have left to say...and isn't this about the identity of the Scoobies as a group or identity period? Yes, Mark, it is about both, just not in the way you think.
I admit, I'm still reading Mark Watches just to see his reactions to certain episodes.
It clearly doesn't take much to entertain me. Plus he's not hard to read any more, hardly any caps locks and less use of the "F" word. A quick two-minute scan and you're done.
2. The Buffy comics...sigh, should I even comment on this? Is it worth the grief? All I will say is this: Methinks Joss Whedon and comic books are unmixy things, unless of course he is working for Marvel, who has fascist editors from hell, who apparently apply hot coals to wayward writers feet to ensure success. Dark Horse unfortunately appears to employ the cast of H & R Puff'n Stuff and My Little Pony as their editors. So, writers have a lovely, stress-free environment to work.
Personally? I stopped bothering with comics after the plot in S8, along with all the characters, took a flying leap off the proverbial cliff, and to the best of my knowledge hasn't landed yet. I love the Buffy tv series completely, I actually like Angel, specifically S4 and S5. Firefly is okay, although it feels like Star Wars meets Ayn Rand by way of Gunsmoke written by a distracted and somewhat flaky comic book geek. Dollhouse...eh, a mess. The Astonishing X-Men comics aren't bad - as long as you skip over the whole DangerRoom arc (the plotting of which I suppose should have warned me about Buffy S8). Dr. Horrible is a great, and somewhat ironic considering the above, take on the superhero comic book genre. It sort of flips it inside out.
So for me? Canon ends with Chosen on Buffy and Not Fade Away on Angel. The comics are fanfic. Or Whedon attempting to turn his creation into a pet, but it just keeps yelling at him instead. And as a result, we've got a mess.
YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary Of Course...but I'm grumpy and tired and don't want to hear it, so shoo.)
3. Hunger Games has clocked in at 302.4 million in three weeks. To put this in perspective? Dr. Seuss The Lorax has made 198.2 million in 6 weeks. Internationally though, it has only made 157.1 million - not surprising. My private hope is that it will win the blockbuster contest of the summer, kicking the Avengers, Dark Knight, Spider Man and Men in Black 3's collective asses.
4. Hee...Mark Watches can't figure out why Primeval isn't the season finale and what the writer can possibly have left to say...and isn't this about the identity of the Scoobies as a group or identity period? Yes, Mark, it is about both, just not in the way you think.
I admit, I'm still reading Mark Watches just to see his reactions to certain episodes.
It clearly doesn't take much to entertain me. Plus he's not hard to read any more, hardly any caps locks and less use of the "F" word. A quick two-minute scan and you're done.
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