08Jan03 (Monthenor): I've really got nothing to say. I'm just sitting around, playing Tony Hawk 4, reading books. Oh, and I drew this comic thing. Not a whole lot happening the week before class starts.
Oh, I've put Don Quixote on hold for a bit in favor of these. It's exactly as described ("an R-rated Buffy the Vampire Slayer") and are pretty good, easy reads. Clarification: the plots and situations are cool. Laurell K. Hamilton's writing style is not. She has a very limited stock of metaphors that get used over and over and over again, but if you can ignore that you'll enjoy the series. I've read up through number four, and if she never describes eyes as "drowning deep" again I'll die happy, but I know it's an empty hope.
In fact, I think we should organize a charity Metaphor Drive. Send Laurell K. Hamilton metaphors for any of the following topics, or any good ones dealing with a supernatural entity, and help forge a better Blake:
* Pretty eyes: metaphors besides "drowning deep" and variations
* Night sky: anything that doesn't involve diamonds/velvet
* Inner monologue: something to use in place of "riiight"
01.09.03 (Morgion):
Hey, it's another year. Just like that. I barely noticed. At least I celebrated the transition this year... unlike last time. Note: if you want to actually do something the moment it becomes a new year, don't start playing Taboo in an apartment with pirated DirectTV. You'll miss the ball drop because:
- the ball doesn't drop for Central Timezone, fool!
- DirectTV will update their software and override your mod, so you'll get a minute of signal, at best
- you'll be playing Taboo... and I mean all of Taboo, the whole box... and completely miss the switch anyway
But that's what happened two years ago. This year was much better. I got to watch a man... thing... drop onto... somebody else... during Connan's countdown. Much better.
Please don't piss off Ms. Hamilton. Yes, her metaphor library is a little sparse, but the plots and the characters (don't forget them... a good plot is pretty much wasted on crap characters... Michael Crichton's Timelilne comes to mind) are very cool. Especially Edward, an assassin and "friend" of Anita (the main character)... not that he wouldn't kill her. Or you. Or anyone, for that matter, if there's a good enough reason. Like money, or fun. Especially fun. Paraphrasing from Edward: "I like to follow [Anita] around, because I get to kill a lot of people."
And the inner monologue's "riiight"... or "ri-ght", or the heart-stopping "ri—ght"... is Anita's thing. Would you routinely change a characteristic of your speech patterns? No, I don't think so. Unless you were schizophrenic, of course; then it's perfectly reasonable.