Wrote 1000 words on the short story in progress this morning and have a very good idea of where it so going to go next and where it’s going after that. Not quite sure how it’s going to get wrapped up yet, but that will happen in good time. I was surprised when I checked the word count at the end of the session. I didn’t think I’d managed that much.
Another funny anecdote from yesterday’s CSI lunchtime talk. An audience member asked the two CSIs if they were able to watch forensic TV shows without minding all of the oversimplifications and errors. The younger of the two said that she couldn’t. She preferred real-life shows like The First 48 and Forensic Files. The veteran said that he liked the shows and could enjoy them without over-analyzing. While in Las Vegas on vacation, he found a “CSI Experience” at the MGM Grand, sort of a murder mystery dinner theater with a CSI theme. He took part in it and was told at the end that he took it way too seriously and tried too hard. However, he seemed pleased that he had received his CSI certificate signed by Gil Grissom.
Hey, it’s just three months until World Horror in Austin. Are you going? There are currently over 220 people registered. It promises to be a great event, my first WHC in a few years. It’s going to be a fairly cheap con for me, since I’ll be driving instead of flying. My car’s odometer just turned over to 30,000 miles yesterday, which isn’t bad considering it’s six or seven years old.
So, Javier Bardem as Roland Deschain in the Dark Tower adaptation. He hasn’t accepted yet, so far as we know, but the part as been offered to him. I quite like the idea, but it’s clear from early reactions that it is a polarizing choice. Some people can’t see it at all.
Last night’s Criminal Minds was one of the worst I’ve seen in a long time. It was a modern day Bonnie and Clyde story, but so much attention was given to the perps that the regulars got pushed into the background. We saw the two of them interacting for a good chunk of the episode, then the behaviorists gave their profiles and it was like that act caused the two villains to crystallize into the roles that had just been assigned to him. One’s a psychopath and the other’s a sociopath. It’s funny how in some shows all it take is one or two bullets to bring down the driver of a fleeing vehicle and in others it takes a hail of bullets. Very Bonnie and Clyde-esque. And what was the deal behind the angelic vision at the end. Boy, did that ever seem to come out of left field and seem horribly cheesy.
