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[snurri]

Check out merylinabarrel's Jack-O-Lantern. It passes the Turing Test. At least, A Turing Test.

Austen update: gave up on Mansfield Park, moved on to Emma. Emma herself isn't all that likeable, but she's at least amusing. Fanny was a doormat. Edmund was a pompous twit.

Also reading about elephants again--this time, Cynthia Moss's Elephant Memories--and thinking about the elephant novel. The reason I got stuck on it at first, I think, was that I got all these story ideas before I really knew anything about the animals. Now I've absorbed enough information and gotten enough distance from my original idea for the parts to start to rearrange to reflect fact, or at least possibility. Still want an arcology in there. Think I've got that figured out.

I keep forgetting to mention that one of my fave under-published authors, Eleanor Arnason, has a blog. She's also posting at a group blog started by her writer's group, the Wyrdsmiths. I particularly liked her post on her least favorite truism, "Show Don't Tell."

Moon Knight? Really? I'm so not clamoring for that one.

Finally, in case this post isn't random enough, have some classic A Tribe Called Quest. "Damn, Tip, what'd you drive so far for?

Comments

[infinitehotel.livejournal.com]

I thought the best indicator that the era of new superhero blockbuster movies was over was the preview for "Ghost Rider". The big guys (Hulk, Spiderman, X-men, F4) have all been done. Still, Marvel has an endless archive of B-list characters to make into B-list movies.

Which, if you think about it, might not be a bad thing. A no-nonsense comic book movie that doesn't take itself deathly serious would be a refreshing change. Sure, the best thing about Moon Knight is probably his costume design (even as a long time comic geek, I can't remember much of anything about the character otherwise) but I could see it being a good rainy Sunday matinee. On the other hand, I rather enjoyed "Daredevil", so maybe I'm in a minority. :)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

They're actually pitching it as a TV show. Which . . . I mean, it could be interesting. I don't know what the concept is. But I've never been a fan of the character, so I'm very skeptical.

[merylinabarrel.livejournal.com]

Aww, you're so nice!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Well, you carved a rockin' pumpkin. That calls for props.

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

I always find it depressing that Jane Austen felt Mansfield Park was her best book, and Fanny Price her best heroine.

It throws everything I think about Austen into chaos! Fanny was such a drip.

Emma is very clever in that the heroine is so unlikeable and yet entertaining. The movie with Gwyneth Paltrow actually conveys this beautifully, though I don't think they intended to. :) It has some great casting, I have to say.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Wow, she really thought that? Man. But then, lots of writers have zero perspective on their own work.

I plan to do some Austen Netflix-ing once I've finished the books. Should be interesting.

[cassiphone.livejournal.com]

I have a deep and utterly irrational love for the Greer Garson & Laurence Oliver P&P, though it is utterly wrong in many regards. The BBC series is of course the best!

Emma Thompson's S&S is pretty good, and makes the characters all far more interesting than they are in the book (even the one played by Hugh Grant!!!) The Frances O'Connor Mansfield Park takes excessive liberties (Jane would have hated it) but just about turns it into a tolerable story.

I haven't seen the film of Persuasion, but it has Caesar in it! (Ciaran Hinds from Rome) so must be good.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs!

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

Ben claims that Fanny's not passive, she just keeps (actively) choosing not to act. But that could just be Ben being Ben....

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hee! Yeah. That sounds like Ben.

[jamiam.livejournal.com]

I just want you to know that I may never be able to drink tea again.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

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