Sponges, True and Probable

[greygirlbeast]

There's a glacier in the driveway.

Yesterday, I did 1,517 words on Chapter 5. As I said a few days ago on Twitter, I'm at least half serious about an author's note at the beginning, something like, Warning: This books contains lesbians and transsexuals, and they have teh sex— with each other —and they're treated like real people, not freaks, and there are no straight characters, just so the homophobic and transphobic whiners out there might be dissuaded from buying it and so whine a little less.

Spooky and I have decided to delay announcement of the secret project until tomorrow. There are still a few details to which she needs to attend. Which is fine, as more people read the blog on Mondays than on Sundays.

Last night, we got new Fringe, an excellent episode with Christopher Lloyd. And then we watched Po-Chih Leong's The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998; also, unfortunately, known as Immortality). How I managed to overlook this film for thirteen years is beyond me. It only came to my attention a couple of days ago, thanks to a recommendation from tsarina. I liked it quite a lot. Jude Law in a fairly artful and understated British vampire film. Also, it includes the phrase "a species of one," so now I can't claim to be the first to have used it.

On WoW last night, I saw a Draenei girl in a guild named "Awesome Lolly Muffin Men." Very likely the most peculiar guild name I've ever seen. I thought it must be a reference to something pop cultural, but, if so, Google isn't being helpful.

Please have a look at the current eBay auctions. Thanks.

And now, I'll leave you with a photo from last night, me and Hubero snuggling to stay warm (foreshortening renders my arm oddly stout):





Photograph Copyright © 2011 by Kathryn A. Pollnac

Comments

[mastadge.livejournal.com]

Ah. Perhaps you might help me identify a vaguely-remembered vampire film that I may have seen on television back in the . . . early 90s? I don't know who was in it; all I recall of it is a scene in which a guy, possibly a vampire, wakes up in a car in the desert. The accelerator has been weighed down and the wheel turned so he wakes up to find the car has been going in circles. But no vampire movie I can find sounds like anything that might have a scene like that, so I've started wondering if maybe I'm remembering a scene from another movie I saw around the time of the vampire movie, or if I've just imagined the whole thing. . .

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I don't know who was in it; all I recall of it is a scene in which a guy, possibly a vampire, wakes up in a car in the desert. The accelerator has been weighed down and the wheel turned so he wakes up to find the car has been going in circles.

Offhand, this rings no bells.

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

That is a scene from David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Not a vampire movie, per se, but odd nonetheless. Kyle McLachlan is the unfortunate person in the car, put there by "Frank", played by Dennis Hopper. See icon for my favorite quote from this movie (which occurs very shortly before Kyle wakes up in the car in the desert).

[greygirlbeast.livejournal.com]

I just saw Blue Velvet again recently, and I'm pretty sure that's not how Jeffrey's ride ends.

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

Oh, treacherous memory. I hate when that happens. And now, of course, I'll be trying to figure out from which film that scene actually comes. Because I know I've seen it.

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

OK, According to Sarah Monette, that's a scene from Nightlife (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097980/). I swear I've seen it elsewhere as well.