66 AND COUNTING

PART 1

He lay dazed in the scant shelter of a dead Battledroid. He knew his helmet got hit but couldn't remember when or how. All around him his brothers were firing at the Jedi ground carrier, with enough success that it had groaned to a halt in the middle of an intersection, practically inviting destruction.  Every few ( Read more... )

Hard to believe it's been so long, but it took me a good 20 minutes just to remember the LJ name. (Yes, dementia is setting in!)

I'm back mostly because I still don't have anyplace to post stories that are easily accessible.

I recently finished watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars and was captivated by the story of Order 66, how the clone troopers ( Read more... )

This is another story in the Bad Day cycle. I just posted the Jinsu story on twitter and that got me to read the Zoe story which got me interested in finishing the Inara story. So same fair warning -- unfinished, very rough, but willing to ignore your comments if you want to make them. ;)

This is the continuation of a story I began with Zoe's Bad ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I've talked about my NPR addiction here yet, though practitioners of twitter have probably seen my tweets extolling the virtues of Linda Holmes et al. So it's time to pollute you all too!

For the last five years, more or less, I have (also more or less) rejected the podcast as a medium worthy of my attention. Since I've lost ( Read more... )

I will always go with children's shows. At least they engage my brain!

After years of shift work and a lack of the more premium cable channels, I've learned to love children's programming. I'm not talking very young children, of course -- Sesame Street is great occasionally but there's a distinct lack of plot in most episodes. ;) My favorites (in ( Read more... )

My expectations for The Hangover were a combination of "not another wacky guy comedy", "omg I <3 Bradley Cooper!", and "this might be okay." Despite the incredible hype over this movie and despite the fact that I've never seen Zach Galifianakis in anything besides Up in the Air, his presence was probably the one thing keeping me out of the theatre ( Read more... )

I remember when Freaks & Geeks first came out. I was sure from the reviews that this was just the kind of TV show I'd like - smart and funny but not smart-assed. I watched the first 20 or so minutes and turned it off. This is a show that hits pretty close to home for me. It's set eight years after I graduated, but the people Paul Feig populated his ( Read more... )

Many of my friends were at my house, visiting for some event. The One True b!X as usual was grumpy and I could tell he was getting restless (waiting for the event?) and could leave at any moment, thus triggering a mass exodus. I was trying to figure out what we could do to keep everyone's interest. Then we were in a tenement area getting ice cream ( Read more... )

The Deep Blue Good-By by James D. MacDonald

Note: Whoa. It's amazing how hard it is to write a serious critique of a book when you haven't even done a book report in 40 years. And when I did book reports, I copied the blurb on the inside jacket. Wish me luck!

Some things you don't notice right away. It took until my nth rereading of The Deep Blue ( Read more... )

Why 3 chapters? That's about as much as I can read during my dinner break at work if I stretch my break out a bit -- John D. MacDonald's chapters are fairly long for an action-thriller these days. I hope it's also short enough that I'll take the time to read it on my weekends. I have a hard time settling down to read these days (as I've said in ( Read more... )