On happier notes...
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litheraMy friend mizkit has a new book out today. Which means, of course, that I'm going to shortly enough be adding another book to the growing pile of them I have to read. I have NO idea why I'm amassing such a collection of them. It's like I'm afraid I'll run out or something.
Wait... That happens some times.
Well, no matter. Go give her stuff a try. Most of it is lighter urban fantasy. If you liked earlier Mercedes Lackey (before the dull and dry tomes of plot and no characterization) or Laurell K Hamilton (before everything became all about sex), I'd say you've got a fair chance at really, really liking these.
So, yesterday, there was Joker-ness afoot!
I got down to the park and there were a few Jokers milling about and I talked with some of them. We stood about chatting and Sean showed up not long after I started being chatty. And my organizing instinct started to kick in. I suppressed it for now, just talking to people who had an idea of what was going on. There was a paddle wheel boat that went by and a lot of us looked at that askance. Hrmmmm. Gathering by the water for a Joker thing and a boat that does not fit.... Hrmmmmm. But there was no gas attack or any crazy fish that we saw.
When we got within 15 minutes, I couldn't help it any longer. I knew there would be three clues, so I got everyone's attention and explained what I knew. People organized into groups. Once we got the clues they went out to get the numbers that answered the clues. About ten minutes later I realized the clues were sequential and that sending people out not together didn't help matters but we solved them all anyway. I felt badly about the whole thing but it worked out in the end. I stayed on the phone with Kris, while the groups ran about and Sean helped get the clues. And now I know there are lion faces on a building downtown. Never noticed that before.
We followed the clue that the numbers gave us from the internet and ended up in an alleyway behind a movie theater. This also had disturbing portents. Not much good happens in alleys, especially related to Batman. But there we met our clown and he handed out Joker cards. I'll take a picture of mine and put it up later, though I must admit that Sean's is much cooler than mine.
We marched to Pacific Place and then into the theater, where the ushers seemed confused that we would do all of this for a trailer but what the hell. I was more doing it for the card at this point than anything else. The trailer was really cool. I'm a little surprised that they're showing some things that they are. They're walking right up to the point of a few important things happening and not showing them but there is VERY little doubt as to what happens next.
I can't wait to see it again. It will be on-line Sunday.
Friday is Iron Man! WOooooo! All of the reviews I've read are very positive. I'm so hopeful.
And tonight is more hockey! YEAH HOCKEY! LET'S GO RED WINGS!
mizkit has a new book out today. Which means, of course, that I'm going to shortly enough be adding another book to the growing pile of them I have to read. I have NO idea why I'm amassing such a collection of them. It's like I'm afraid I'll run out or something.Wait... That happens some times.
Well, no matter. Go give her stuff a try. Most of it is lighter urban fantasy. If you liked earlier Mercedes Lackey (before the dull and dry tomes of plot and no characterization) or Laurell K Hamilton (before everything became all about sex), I'd say you've got a fair chance at really, really liking these.
So, yesterday, there was Joker-ness afoot!
I got down to the park and there were a few Jokers milling about and I talked with some of them. We stood about chatting and Sean showed up not long after I started being chatty. And my organizing instinct started to kick in. I suppressed it for now, just talking to people who had an idea of what was going on. There was a paddle wheel boat that went by and a lot of us looked at that askance. Hrmmmm. Gathering by the water for a Joker thing and a boat that does not fit.... Hrmmmmm. But there was no gas attack or any crazy fish that we saw.
When we got within 15 minutes, I couldn't help it any longer. I knew there would be three clues, so I got everyone's attention and explained what I knew. People organized into groups. Once we got the clues they went out to get the numbers that answered the clues. About ten minutes later I realized the clues were sequential and that sending people out not together didn't help matters but we solved them all anyway. I felt badly about the whole thing but it worked out in the end. I stayed on the phone with Kris, while the groups ran about and Sean helped get the clues. And now I know there are lion faces on a building downtown. Never noticed that before.
We followed the clue that the numbers gave us from the internet and ended up in an alleyway behind a movie theater. This also had disturbing portents. Not much good happens in alleys, especially related to Batman. But there we met our clown and he handed out Joker cards. I'll take a picture of mine and put it up later, though I must admit that Sean's is much cooler than mine.
We marched to Pacific Place and then into the theater, where the ushers seemed confused that we would do all of this for a trailer but what the hell. I was more doing it for the card at this point than anything else. The trailer was really cool. I'm a little surprised that they're showing some things that they are. They're walking right up to the point of a few important things happening and not showing them but there is VERY little doubt as to what happens next.
I can't wait to see it again. It will be on-line Sunday.
Friday is Iron Man! WOooooo! All of the reviews I've read are very positive. I'm so hopeful.
And tonight is more hockey! YEAH HOCKEY! LET'S GO RED WINGS!
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Date: 2008-04-29 07:33 pm (UTC)"... die a hero or live long enough to become a villain."
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Date: 2008-04-29 07:38 pm (UTC)Psychotic ex-boyfriends.
Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 02:05 am (UTC)I'm a late comer to the Laurell K Hamilton party, but honestly I don't think the books have all the much sex in them. The sex that does happen is fairly explained and make far more sense than, say, the sex scene in Top Gun.
Re: Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 02:08 am (UTC)Re: Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 02:24 am (UTC)Re: Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 02:27 am (UTC)Well, the multiple partners and sex with poeple in alternate forms were a bit much for me. I don't mind the sex, I just miss the detective necromancer bits. I wish she'd stop getting power ups with the more people she sleeps with.
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Date: 2008-04-30 02:52 am (UTC)Re: Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 02:59 am (UTC)One of the things that I truly enjoy about the whole series is the fact that Anita actually grows. She changes her opinions and has oral quandaries.
Re: Feel free to ignore me
Date: 2008-04-30 03:02 am (UTC)I just got tired with the powering up by having a lot of sex and being able to power up to beat whatever challenge showed up. Anita was starting to feel like one of those characters that you've RPed too long and they're unstoppable and maybe you should put them away for awhile.