Puzzled

Tonight I'm having some friends over to watch Troll 2. Last night it was Jaws. I'm re-reading IT for the umpteenth time.

I love horror. Good horror, bad horror, horror books, horror drawings, cons, props: ALL of it. Most of my friends don't share this interest: Really, only my future brother in law Grizz feels the same way about it that I do. We'll sit and discuss Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Insidious, anything for hours on end: in that way he and I are closer than my fiancee, his brother.

But not in this way.

For a long time, it was just something that I did. It never occurred to me that my interest in horror wasn't shared by everyone around me. They were misguided, I thought. They just needed to be shown how cool it was.

After a few years with my fiancee, I got over that. He doesn't care about horror one way or the other. It's fine. It's good that we have different interests.  It's healthy, etc.

So here I sit, counting down the hours until Troll 2 and Halloween when I can force everyone into participating in my interests. Selfish? Yeah. But it's one of the few times I push what I want to do. I usually try to make everyone else happy and never consider my own wants first (I fail a lot, but at least I try). 

Also, no qualms about them grabbing my ass or my tits. Like, zero.

Tonight is about doing what I want. I feel a little bad about my selfishness, a bit worse about NOT feeling worse, and mostly happy that I'm going to watch bad movies with friends. Anyone else ever get that?

Chun-Chun!

So, here I sit, watching Back to the Future at my soon-to-be Brother’s in law’s house (Bahamute and I are house/snake sitting). I’ve been watching a lot of 80s and 90s movies lately: mostly the Puppet Master series (I’m in the middle of #5 presently). I’ve come to a realization: Law and Order SVU has ruined bad eighties horror for me.

These fuckers.

Let me explain.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Puppet Master flicks (no great surprise there) it’s basically this: Puppets kill things. People. Demons. Other puppets. In the case of #4 it’s demons while protecting a good Master. Some people are killed by the demons, puppets win, end of flick.

Yeah, it's just as good as it looks

Number #5 starts with the protagonist of #4 in a police offce. He’s being charge with the murders. Okay, I can see that, he was the caretaker of the hotel where one dude died. Any other evidence?

Well...He has a creppy looking puppet! And he was the last person to call two murdered scientist he worked with.

He called them FROM the remote hotel, which the phone logs would show. He had NO motive to kill his co workers. The video of one co worker shows her looking at the floor: clearly the suspect programmed his puppet to MURDER these innocent people!

Ha ha.....ooooh.

With no opportunity, motive, and the barest excuse of a mean. These cops would have been tossed out on their asses if they tried this under Captain Cragen.

Get out of my office before I transfer you to the 'partnered with a comic foil' department.

Impotant RAAAAAAGE

What is the word for experiencing rage over something that happened 20 some years ago? Not something serious, like a murder or a war, mind you: something cultural, like an event in a book, movie, play or T.V. show.

Because the crap in Star Trek TNG is starting to REALLY get my dander up.

90% of the episodes are about Picard negotiating treaties. A nice idea, but I though your mission was to BOLDLY go where NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE, not boldly go to the next neutral meeting site!

Another thing that sucks? Kids. So far Troi, Worf, Data, and Riker have all had a kid (not always a real one, mind you). Two have died by the end of the episode, one was shunted off to live with grandparents, and one was an alien impostor that was ditched at a starbase, presumably. Emotional manipulation go!

Wesley. Nuff said

Don't get me wrong, I still love TNG, mostly for it's complex characters. But I sure do miss the Holy Trinity of Trek beaming down to planets and finding adventures. 

Do do do do doooo....

New toys

Here I sit, blogging from my new Acer Chromebook. So far I'm getting used to the smaller keyboard: It's not teeny tiny or anything, but it's smaller than I'm used to. So I'm sitting in my living room, watching Puppetmaster 2, and trying out new apps.

Yep, just like this.

So far, so good. It's got a webcam and mic: more videos on the go, perhaps. I'm trying to figure out how to rename it in my Wi-Fi system. TYRION, Motha Effers!

Yep.

So far, so good: $200 well spent!

A paradox!

So, I find myself wanting to purchase something to do a little writing (and maybe some internet browsing) when I'm at rehearsal for a play, etc. My Fiancee has a laptop, but ti's cumbersome and sorta old. So now I'm looking at 'Chromebooks'. I'm not thrilled about no windows, but the Google Docs stuff seems like a decent intermediary between that and working on my home computer.

At $199, the price is right. Do I go for it?

It seems like an okay deal. I was burned by a refurbished computer the last time I tried to buy one, but Best Buy has a new model that seems to suit my needs. I think I might go for it.

In other news, Spamalot rehearsals are going well: I'm playing a number of small parts including Tim the Enchanter. Bahamute is Galahad and the Black Knight. Super special awesome!

Dangit LittleKuriboh, where's the new episode?!

Whelp, by that ol' clock in the corner of my screen, my lunchtime internet derping is just about up. TTFN.

Working hard for de' money

So, thanks to a helpful meeting with my boss, I'm now allowed to visit various internet sights during my lunch hour. I've got 15 minutes left, so that leaves juuuuuuust enough time for a witty, informative blog.

...

Sonofabitch.

Craptacular.

What is there to cover? Batflack? I don't really care. My favorite Batman is still Kevin Conroy of Batman TAS and the Arkham games. I have no special hatred for Afflack either, having seen him in Mallrats and...um...hm.

Remember, this is the one everyone else likes.

How about The Wolverine. Unlike many X-Men fans who have read the comics (Proud owner of some semi-mangled Essential X-Men over here!) I enjoyed it.

This is pretty much it.

It was dumb popcorn entertainment, and as for Hugh Jackman, he gave another great performance. I'm much more excited for X-Men Days of a Future Past with Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask. Score!

AWWWW YEEEEAAAAH

Speaking of Dinklage, I just made it past 'The Red Wedding' in the Song of Ice and Fire book series. Time to start watching the show! Tyrion (Dinklage) is my favorite character, and I'm excited to see the much-acclaimed portrayal of him real soon.

As for the future: reviews of Gingerdead Man and maybe Troll 2. I'm having a screening of both this weekend, with special feature, Evil Bong. Wish me luck!

On Blu-Ray AND DVD? Oh my GAAAAAAWWWWWWWWD!