Not-politics – Page 1175

Still on vacation…

…just back from Shakespeare in a park.

Moe Lane

PS: I’m writing this on a Mac. Can’t say that I’m all that impressed, though.

“Down Under.”

It seemed a good idea at the time. Still does, actually.

Traveling again this weekend.

Seeing the in-laws; Shakespeare in the park – well, a park – and the laptop stays at home, so light blogging this go-round. And I mean it this time.

Picking some sites at random to read, instead:

Deceiver.
Protein Wisdom.
Skepticans.
Age of Sail.
Jules Crittenden.
Fausta.

Allow me to horrify all of you regarding Jane Eyre.

While I certainly agree that Jane Eyre is a great novel; but what it really needs is…

Well, it simply needs to be recast in a setting that’s had an unsuccessful alien invasion: one where the invaders attempted to create various kinds of psionic mutations in the captive human population. Jane can be a precognitive; Rochester could be some sort of former Man In Black with a mad pyrokinetic in his attic; and I guess that Rivers would be a telepathic mesmerist and secret agent of the last few aliens hiding out on Earth.

Hey, they put zombies into Pride & Prejudice, and the result’s been on the best seller list for months. And now they’re going to do Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters – no, really:

…so don’t tell me that wouldn’t sell.

Moe Lane

Don Cheadle to replace Terrence Howard in Iron Man 2.

Or so this blog reports.

To be honest, I was never entirely pleased with Howard’s performance in Iron Man, and I liked Cheadle a lot in both Hotel Rwanda and Ocean’s Eleven – so this isn’t really bugging me. Robert Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow are coming back to reprise their roles, and that’s probably the key to the movie right there. The article that spawned all of this… well. Some weird stuff going on there, maybe. On the other hand, the preliminary buzz on Star Trek was worrisome, too – and that turned out OK.

We’ll see.

Moe Lane