Happy Birthday to katmaxwell. :)

And many happy returns of the day. :)

Better Than Chocolate

I must draw your attention to eor's Better Than Chocolate icons, because, hey, Karyn Dwyer is amazingly gorgeous! :)  Honestly, I can't believe this movie made 30 million dollars.  It was crammed with cliches and had the acting level of an After School Special, but you really must see it. :)  And not only for Karyn Dwyer posing 'nude but for signs.'  Although that would be enough.

( a note on After School Special, and an IMDB walk )

brr.

It's 14F (-10C).  I was going to walk down to the library this morning, but... hm.  I'll have the car tomorrow. 

What a wuss I have become, letting the cold and wet hair keep me from going out.  Well, not from going out, because I still have to go at least as far as the bus stop.  I may possibly walk to work. 

I was going to phone the library yesterday afternoon to see if they had "Arundel" (Kenneth Roberts) or if they would have to get it for me, but for some reason the phone number of the major branch of Portland Public Library (Monument Square, the branch I usually go to) is not in the phone book. 

. . .

Wow.  I just spent fifteen minutes on the phone with PPL, both Monument Square and Riverton, and they both say there's not a copy of "Arundel" left in their system, right now.  That's at least six copies.  I wonder if it's just our little reading group causing this drain, or if it's assigned to some high school class? 

I didn't know that a library can't request interlibrary loan if they own a copy of a book.  That seems kind of silly.

Oh well, you know what this mean?  BOOKSTORE HOPPING!!! :)

story pimpage! :)

I just love this story bravecows posted, What You Wait For.  And yes, part of the reason I love it is because she wrote it while listening to this song (Ed's Redeeming Qualities' "I Will Wait"), which is and old favorite between eor and I, and is funny, upbeat and catchy.  And she sprinkles quotes from the song liberally through her post and her comment-replies.  But mainly I love it because she goes such a different direction with the story from what you'd expect if you already knew the song.  Well, with the characters she wanted to work with, I guess she had to.  Oh, and I suppose also I love it because even though they are characters from a particular anime she's into, you don't have to know anything at all about that universe in order to read it.  Meaning, for me, it reads like an original fic.  Give them different names and I wouldn't know the difference.

And, I must say, this comment from destervetha, where she plots out how to shoot the story as an indie short movie with the song as theme music, makes me want to send the whole thing to Efram Potelle and see if he'll fall for it.