I’m sure that most of you also receive e-mail alerts from Amazon advising you of the availability of titles that might be of interest. Today’s recommendation was for A Dark Matter by Peter Straub. A reasonably astute suggestion, except for some reason they want me to buy the Large Print edition. I know my vision is getting worse — my wife knows my vision is getting worse — how does Amazon know? (Really, it’s not that bad!)
Last night I finished my homework for the new season of Lost. I watched “The Incident” and most of the special features on the DVD. I still have to find all the Easter Eggs. I’m always fascinated by the creative process — how certain shots are constructed. It destroys some of the magic, but I’m still interested. Michael Emerson’s tour of the Disney offices was fun, too. “To do: Kill Ben,” Damon and Carlton have written on their white board when he enters the room.
I’m interested in seeing the new Mel Gibson film, Edge of Darkness, but I’m even more interested in seeing the original BBC miniseries. I see it’s now out on DVD so I just ordered a copy. It was very well reviewed at the time and it has an Eric Clapton soundtrack.
I always find it interesting when my day job and my writing life intersect. For the most part they run in parallel, but every now and then something happens to bring them together momentarily. The first time it happened was way back in the 1990s when I was a computer programmer. Our platform of choice in those days was the VAX with VMS operating system. I subscribed to various VAX/VMS mailing lists and became familiar with a guy who posted as GoatHunter…who I would later get to know as Hunter Goatley, the guy who runs Robert McCammon’s web site. This morning I received a day-job-related e-mail about a new message board someone was trying out to see if we were interested in participating. He mentioned another implementation of the software, which allows people to ask questions and vote for good answers. In the example he cited, the top-rated answerer just happened to be an old acquaintance of mine from back in the alt.books.stephen-king days. How random is that?
Had a physical yesterday. All my specs are within tolerance (though my cholesterol hit 200 for the first time ever) except it seems that my red blood cells are overweight.
