Nine Muses

I was browsing around the web (surprising, I know) when I ran across an article about what the author refers to as "Fancy British People" movies… you know the sort — those period pieces that take place in England, tend to be about "Society" (which must be capitalized), etc.

Anyway, he had this humorous observation to make when talking about what qualifies for the genre: "They also can’t be French. Those people wouldn’t know moral repression if it glanced disapprovingly in their direction."  That made me snicker, so I had to share.

Read the whole article.  It’s well worth it.

(Talking about a movie article counts within my loose media/entertainment theme for this blog, right?)

It’s that time of year again.  We’re nearing the end of the dead summer season.  Instead, in this feast or famine world of game releases, there’s a rush of must-have can’t-resist pre-order-to-make-sure-you-get-it titles.  So, this is my list of things that I am looking forward to, and will be spending my much more scarce entertainment dollars on:

• Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility (Wii) - August 27
• Spore (PC) - September 7
• Fallout 3 (PC) - October 7
• Fable 2 (360) - October 21
• Animal Crossing: City Folk (Wii) - November 3 or 16 (Depending on who you ask)

I’m re-reading Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising Sequence and am finally on the last book, Silver on the Tree.  I’ve come to a bit where a man is talking to the main character’s family about a bullying his son participated in a few days before.  This all takes place in the U.K. and the book was written in 1977.  The target of the bullying is a Sikh boy.  This father is going on about those Pakistani and Indian people and how they’re take jobs from honest Englishmen, live 16 to a house, and take advantage of the national healthcare system.  It’s funny (not the ha-ha sort of funny, either) that this is such a precise parallel of the sort of attitude we see here in the U.S. today, especially in CA and the southwest, regarding the Mexican immigrant workers.  I guess that sort of ignorance and stupidity is timeless.

Sheesh, I haven’t updated since September?  I knew it had been a while, but this is just excessive.

So, I had a baby and she’s six months old and beautiful.  She has her own blog.  Ask me for the link if you want it.

I’ve hardly had any time to play games for the last six months.  I just reinstalled Diablo 2 this last week once they announced Diablo 3 was coming out.  I finally managed to get some time to install the expansion for NWN2 as well, but then decided to finish the main campaign first, since I’m so close and someone totally lied about the expansion not following after the main campaign.  It totally does!

I’m also waiting eagerly for Fallout 3 and Spore.  I’ll link to my Spore page later if I can figure out how to do it.

I’m also also re-reading some classics from my tween years right now: I’m about halfway through “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,” and “The Grey King” (Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising series).

Oh, yeah, and I took up knitting.

More comprehensive updates will hopefully come later, as I think I’m turning the corner on being able to find the time to type up a thing or two.