1. I have con crud. I owe several people e-mail, and I will get to them when my baseline for coherence comes back up and my throat stops feeling like sea urchins.
2. I haven't been able to remember my dreams for weeks, except for the really random one where I started dating Roger Rees in the middle of a production of Twelfth Night (I know, I'm as surprised as anyone). I went all through Arisia with a hungover sense of complex and otherwise memorable dreams that my early-morning schedule was obliterating. Last night I dreamed about driving several miles to make an after-midnight showing of a Czech or Hungarian film in which something that everyone really wanted to believe was the Devil came to town, with somewhat different results from The Master and Margarita. It was being shown in a college auditorium; the house lights were on; people came and went, taking smoke or snack breaks or returning with friends. I woke up before the movie ended, so I'll never find out whether I was right in my guesses that the stranger was either an unfallen angel or something from another mythology entirely, not dualistic at all. The print had that slight saturated grain I associate with films from the 1980's, but the story looked to be set in the '50's. I can't remember if I knew the director's name even in the dream.
3. I am not encouraging anyone to participate in this contest. I am merely marveling at its existence. From the channel that brought you Anonymous Rex, Boa vs. Python, and Mansquito:
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he's carrying bears a terrible curse, and now a murderous demon has been unleashed. It's up to Sir Gregory and some unlikely allies to battle this unholy scourge and stop the spread of an unspeakable evil.
(Why is it always unspeakable evil? Why is no one ever threatened by evil that's a little tricky to talk about? Or evil that inspires all-night philosophical filibusters? I guarantee the latter provides much more scope for stories.)
And then you are supposed to Name That Syfy Movie.
4. Maybe I'll just go back to bed. I liked my fictional movie better.
2. I haven't been able to remember my dreams for weeks, except for the really random one where I started dating Roger Rees in the middle of a production of Twelfth Night (I know, I'm as surprised as anyone). I went all through Arisia with a hungover sense of complex and otherwise memorable dreams that my early-morning schedule was obliterating. Last night I dreamed about driving several miles to make an after-midnight showing of a Czech or Hungarian film in which something that everyone really wanted to believe was the Devil came to town, with somewhat different results from The Master and Margarita. It was being shown in a college auditorium; the house lights were on; people came and went, taking smoke or snack breaks or returning with friends. I woke up before the movie ended, so I'll never find out whether I was right in my guesses that the stranger was either an unfallen angel or something from another mythology entirely, not dualistic at all. The print had that slight saturated grain I associate with films from the 1980's, but the story looked to be set in the '50's. I can't remember if I knew the director's name even in the dream.
3. I am not encouraging anyone to participate in this contest. I am merely marveling at its existence. From the channel that brought you Anonymous Rex, Boa vs. Python, and Mansquito:
1099 A.D.: A battle-weary knight leads his men home from the Holy Land after years of fighting. But the supposedly holy relic he's carrying bears a terrible curse, and now a murderous demon has been unleashed. It's up to Sir Gregory and some unlikely allies to battle this unholy scourge and stop the spread of an unspeakable evil.
(Why is it always unspeakable evil? Why is no one ever threatened by evil that's a little tricky to talk about? Or evil that inspires all-night philosophical filibusters? I guarantee the latter provides much more scope for stories.)
And then you are supposed to Name That Syfy Movie.
4. Maybe I'll just go back to bed. I liked my fictional movie better.
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