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Um. V. unproductive. Slept a lot. Watched Jeeves and Wooster. Ate bon bons cornmeal mush cooked in chicken stock. Looked up Aberdeen terrier on Wikipedia (because Aunt Agatha's dog is called an Aberdeen terrier in the books, but they cast a West Highland terrier in the shows, and I wondered what an Aberdeen terrier really was... but I guess it's just a general term for the group Westies, Scotties and Skys all belong to...?) Am trying to keep pushing the liquids. A pathetic cough is trying to set in.
Have also started reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" again, from where I left off last year. It's still pathetic!! :) I'd love to see it done as a show; perhaps animated, though. I'd like to see this purely for Woola, his calot, John Carter's Martian 'hound' - a 10-legged animal with a mane and three rows of teeth in a mouth 'like a bullfrog,' who bounces around like a happy pup when he sees Carter again, and knocks him down with bearlike affection. I think his pet would steal all the scenes. And he can track people who are in flying machines. I think this is because he's psychic. (Eor says Deja Thoris just has a very strong, distinctive smell. Yeah, right.;)) So, A Princes of Mars - once again convincing me that I can write this well. *eye roll* Actually, I can't, because I can't come up with so much abso-freakin-lutely cracked outness. The monsters in the swamp just don't attack them because Woola and John Carter sleep on the grass? What? And action-action-action. Man. Cleverly enough, for a while he was making his way through Stygean darkness, but later he encountered Cimmerian darkness - different qualities of darkness, I suppose? But both of them very very dark darknesses. (ERB later wrote "Conan the Cimmerian," which became the comic books. And of course "Tarzan.")
Oh - a 'sith' on Barsoom (Mars) is a giant wasp.
I've got to admit, though, for all the cheesyness, there's something about Edgar Rice Burroughs. Something so... cheesy. Come on, cheese-eaters, you know what I mean.
Have also started reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" again, from where I left off last year. It's still pathetic!! :) I'd love to see it done as a show; perhaps animated, though. I'd like to see this purely for Woola, his calot, John Carter's Martian 'hound' - a 10-legged animal with a mane and three rows of teeth in a mouth 'like a bullfrog,' who bounces around like a happy pup when he sees Carter again, and knocks him down with bearlike affection. I think his pet would steal all the scenes. And he can track people who are in flying machines. I think this is because he's psychic. (Eor says Deja Thoris just has a very strong, distinctive smell. Yeah, right.;)) So, A Princes of Mars - once again convincing me that I can write this well. *eye roll* Actually, I can't, because I can't come up with so much abso-freakin-lutely cracked outness. The monsters in the swamp just don't attack them because Woola and John Carter sleep on the grass? What? And action-action-action. Man. Cleverly enough, for a while he was making his way through Stygean darkness, but later he encountered Cimmerian darkness - different qualities of darkness, I suppose? But both of them very very dark darknesses. (ERB later wrote "Conan the Cimmerian," which became the comic books. And of course "Tarzan.")
Oh - a 'sith' on Barsoom (Mars) is a giant wasp.
I've got to admit, though, for all the cheesyness, there's something about Edgar Rice Burroughs. Something so... cheesy. Come on, cheese-eaters, you know what I mean.
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