there was begging for candy on the part of the three kids and one friend, sarah and i as chaperones, and then there was prison break and the daily show and the colbert report (actually, that last one i recorded and just watched when i got home from work and picking up kieran and walking to blockbuster (returned kingdom of heaven and got millions and paper clips)

work was the usual mix of data entry bits, had me thinking about a couple more gardea stories (the horror themed southard, the sands o' red and the pseudo coming of age bit the fliers of offavtop) and reimagining wannabeheroes as a half hour dramatic tv series (a la something like werewolf or that dead at 21 show on mtv a few years back). it's a story i NEED to get back to doing, to finishing, but it requires one of a few formats i just cannot manage on my own (notably an ongoing (but relatively limited) comic book or a tv thing). i really don't think i could tell the story properly as a novel or a one off screenplay (not that either of those would have much more chance of seeing anything beyond my current audience (which can be counted on one hand--and that's if you're hitchhiking and picking your nose and your pinky fell off due to gangrene)

and, of late, i've had thinkings on the vikariad again aswell, but i don't think i'm going to get back into comic stuff again. the ship came and went, methinks. now is the time to try getting some novels out, gotta edit clubhouse blues and rewrite the man with the holes in his hands and get the query letter/synopsis for lion horse tree to some people, and i need to convince myself that sending the evolution of grace screenplay to kevin bacon is a good idea again, or knock that one out of my head altogether

and, i've still got a short story called the water change, tying the gardea stuff to my old demonangel stuff, in the rewriting/finishing department, and i need to get to my mortician screenplay, and i'll be picking up daniel quinn's tales of adam today and spending a bit of time at the galleria, and tonight on tv: house, boston legal and nip/tuck, the daily show and the colbert report

there was a parade in which hayley performed with her drill team. there was h salt fish & chips for dinner saturday, and chili for dinner sunday, not much tv though. that last bit would expected for saturdays of course, but last night (still in the world series schedule time so not having much (ie, the fox animated lineup) new) was just rome and extras and grey's anatomy for me, and i recorded that last one and will catch the other two on hbo on demand or one of the various hbos later this week, as i was watching in good company with sarah

picked up that one, garden state and sideways on a blockbuster gift card yesterday on the way to the galleria (browsed the lego store and the lego section of kb toys but bought nothing), all three movies then removed from my amazon dvd wishlist. had intended to pick up kingdom of heaven (the pilgrim's guide version of which i watched saturday night) but that (and various other battle involved films on dvd) will have to wait. gotta love the extras on movies like that (except for alexander, which better have a better version (as in with more extras) coming in the future. speaking of which, i still need to watch more stuff from disc two of kingdom of heaven before i return it to blockbuster and i've got three more commentaries on the return of the king to get to, not that i'm obsessive about extras or anything of late

i am

and, in lego news, i made a bit of a exploration type spaceship saturday, first thing since my grasshopper (lifesize, mind you) last week. still haven't bothered to clear some space on my website to post new lego photos, though i should at least make space for the tiger

and, so it begins, with a week's worth...

this week included the following television:

• born without a face (interesting but inconclusive as it covered recent events)
• grey's anatomy - "bring the pain" (getting better by the episode)
• two and a half men - "hi, mr. horned one" (surprisingly funny despite itself)
• prison break - "the old head" (fun and convoluted and embracing of its unreality)
• the daily show (x 4) (damn funny of late)
• the colbert report (x 4) (a fantastic partner to the daily show, great interview segemtns, and gotta love "the word")
• boston legal - "men to boys" (new cast and all the resulting edits are a bit bothersome, but i'm still hopeful it will work out once its all put together, or the excess baggage will be trimmed once again. this show still has a great center in spader and shatner)
• nip/tuck - "frankenlaura" (more bad things happen, reality is ignored, but it works, damn it)
• veronica mars (could actually be more complex this season than last, and that's only a plus)
• invasion - "the hunt" (getting better and better, while still maintaining a very deliberate pace)
• over there - "follow the money" (good finale, though i almost hoped it would end mid firefight)
• jeopardy (only saw this once this week, and found myself knowing way too much about tennis)
• the simpsons (saw one rerun this week, and it was a good one, though there are so many, i can't figure out what the title was)
• alias - "out of the box" (back to basics, but if this is the last season, they really should tie those new basics into the old ones directly, throw in some rambaldi (hell, it should have been him in the box) and end it all in a big blowout)
• night stalker - "malum" (stylistically, this show is fantastic, but the plots are a bit obvious, and kolchak would've know what malum meant without consulting a dictionary, damn it. still, not as bad as supernatural (which has the potentially better premise) as far as x-files offspring go)
• real time (not the best episode of late, but still fairly good)
• masters of horror - "incident on and off a mountain road" (nice and graphic, and though i had guessed the twist about the trunk of the car early on, i'd already forgotten my guess by the end cause of all the nifty gore and chase going on. i've always contended that phantasm is a piece of crap, but that director's direction here was good. i will defintely watch this anthology some more)

• child's play (had seen it more than once, but rented it for the kids. surprisingly (as in, more than i remembered) simple film, with quite a straightforward plot, got in got out and that was all, pretty good as far as horror films go in that regard)
• mysterious skin (an odd little film in that the revelation is obvious before you even watch the film, and the opening sequence makes it pretty obvious, so it ends up a serious character study along a plot we know all along)
• kingdom of heaven (saw it in the theater but had to rent the dvd cause battle movies always have great extras. still haven't gotten to those extras--the pilgrim's guide subtitles looks to be interesting, but enjoyed the movie the second time and wonder why so many people didn't like it back when it was in theaters)

• cages (dave mckean coming at a huge story from many angles and nary a flaw to be found. it inspired me, though there might not be any direct thematic connection, to draw this)
• strangers in paradise (the beginning of the end as it's all coming back to old relationships about to be stuck facing each other again. good drama)
• tv guide (i like the new format, though they could use some episode titles in those grids)

• hindsight (a science fiction story set in my fantasy world of gardea, about a blind girl who gets a lesson in alternate realities from a talking cat and gets herself some new eyes (figuratively and literally))

check out today's, the latest, entry in my regular blog, "against the world"