Oh sovay, it is such a TREAT to read this! Seriously, I cannot begin to tell you how fun it is to sail along vicariously with you in your life for this day. Your narration is so much fun!
Your penultimate line: ... and went out for dinner in the evening, only slightly vindictively, to the Boston Burger Company ---Honestly, the people who get to associate with you in the flesh a little more frequently than I do (seeing as your and my interactions are pretty much limited to smiling hellos in passing at Readercon once a year) are so lucky!
Your write-up of Dimensions: a Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Threads is intriguing; I'll see if I can get it on interlibrary loan maybe.
I couldn't persuade Rob to leave the theater entirely, because if he didn't see it end with his own eyes, he felt he might never be sure that it wasn't still playing on somewhere in a kind of horrible Shining loop, .... Hmmm, that sounds like Rob was pulling a Digory-in-the-hall-of-the-wax-figures move on you, but, well, okay: at least you didn't have to **see** the film.
What's La Luna like? (I know asking a question like that in the age of Google is the height of lazy. It signifies: "tell me a story; I am too lazy to read one for myself.")
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Your penultimate line: ... and went out for dinner in the evening, only slightly vindictively, to the Boston Burger Company ---Honestly, the people who get to associate with you in the flesh a little more frequently than I do (seeing as your and my interactions are pretty much limited to smiling hellos in passing at Readercon once a year) are so lucky!
But to the films: the notion of reverse-engineering the plot of that first one made me smile, and I felt so disappointed about the second: I would have liked it to be all about the handsome Red Baron. ("No cliché is left uncommitted, no matter what knots of logic the film needs to tie itself into in order to introduce it." --Haha: OUCH. But you make the awful sound funny.)
Your write-up of Dimensions: a Line, a Loop, a Tangle of Threads is intriguing; I'll see if I can get it on interlibrary loan maybe.
I couldn't persuade Rob to leave the theater entirely, because if he didn't see it end with his own eyes, he felt he might never be sure that it wasn't still playing on somewhere in a kind of horrible Shining loop, .... Hmmm, that sounds like Rob was pulling a Digory-in-the-hall-of-the-wax-figures move on you, but, well, okay: at least you didn't have to **see** the film.
What's La Luna like? (I know asking a question like that in the age of Google is the height of lazy. It signifies: "tell me a story; I am too lazy to read one for myself.")
Thanks again for sharing the marathon.