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tehluggage) wrote2007-10-24 11:08 pm
tehluggage) wrote2007-10-24 11:08 pm
a series of unrelated entries...
...Okay, it's been an embarrassingly long time since I updated this thing. But that's okay. And wow, I had a whole list of things I wanted to write about, let's see how much I actually remembered.
First and foremost, of course, the weather. So it's been plus 20C for the past two days. Unusual for October, (it ought to be in December), but I can deal with it. It's kind of nice, being able to sleep with the window open. But then, this afternoon, I noticed a rather imposing wall of clouds building up over the mountains. And because sometimes our weather is ridiculously predictable, (but only sometimes, mind you), I knew what was coming. It's now snowing, and there's almost an inch on the ground. Yes, that's right. From plus 20 to snow in less than five hours. Oh Cochrane, never change.
Linking back to my previous entry, I finally got Making Money! I was, of course, exceedingly happy, so much so that I think my grin was almost scaring people. And it was every bit as good as I anticipated. Best line of the book, for me, had to be this little gem.
"The last note died, after a long illness."
That just...sums up Pratchett, right there. But the really interesting thing about MM, to me, was that it was very different from the previous books. Not different in a bad way, but different in the same way that Night Watch was different from everything before it. Still the same Discworld, it still has that spark that all of Pratchett's writing does, but it's the next leap forward. Part of it may have been the sheer amount of cameos in MM. Ponder, Recent Runes, the Librarian, Detritus, Vimes, Mrs. Cake, Dr. Whiteface... It really drove home the inter-connectedness of the books set in Ankh-Morpork, and the fact that even though the Wizard books and the Watch books barely have any relation to each other, they're still set in the same city. But regardless of all that, the book is damn good, and well worth the read.
As for fandom related babbling, Naruto continues to creep downhill, although the current Jiraiya fight looks to be at least somewhat interesting, if only for the fact that he appears to have three heads at the moment. Which is oddly hilarious, even though he's currently fightingGary Stu an absurdly strong ninja. Named Pein. Who has OMG supah speshul eyes!1!!11eleventy. No, I don't really like him.
One Piece is still made of win and awesome, what with Brooke saving Usopp's keister, Gecko Moria in his Zombie Mecha named Oz, and the rest of the Strawhats, sans Luffy, getting ready to kick some serious zombie ass.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! continues with the awesome conspiracy theories, and my favorite bit thus far, MASSIVE support for my OT3/4.
And as for the newest addition, Trigun... It's pretty damn awesome so far. Vash is a ginormous dork, Wolfwood is a priest who carries around a cross shaped machine gun, and Milly and Meryl promise to be very interesting. So far, it's worth the effort. Also the anime is very shiny, highly amusing, and Vash's VA is the one who voices Spandam. Which makes me cackle.
That actually felt kind of good, getting everything laid out like that. Now if I could only update the fic I've been writing, seeing as how I've already got it on the Pit...
First and foremost, of course, the weather. So it's been plus 20C for the past two days. Unusual for October, (it ought to be in December), but I can deal with it. It's kind of nice, being able to sleep with the window open. But then, this afternoon, I noticed a rather imposing wall of clouds building up over the mountains. And because sometimes our weather is ridiculously predictable, (but only sometimes, mind you), I knew what was coming. It's now snowing, and there's almost an inch on the ground. Yes, that's right. From plus 20 to snow in less than five hours. Oh Cochrane, never change.
Linking back to my previous entry, I finally got Making Money! I was, of course, exceedingly happy, so much so that I think my grin was almost scaring people. And it was every bit as good as I anticipated. Best line of the book, for me, had to be this little gem.
"The last note died, after a long illness."
That just...sums up Pratchett, right there. But the really interesting thing about MM, to me, was that it was very different from the previous books. Not different in a bad way, but different in the same way that Night Watch was different from everything before it. Still the same Discworld, it still has that spark that all of Pratchett's writing does, but it's the next leap forward. Part of it may have been the sheer amount of cameos in MM. Ponder, Recent Runes, the Librarian, Detritus, Vimes, Mrs. Cake, Dr. Whiteface... It really drove home the inter-connectedness of the books set in Ankh-Morpork, and the fact that even though the Wizard books and the Watch books barely have any relation to each other, they're still set in the same city. But regardless of all that, the book is damn good, and well worth the read.
As for fandom related babbling, Naruto continues to creep downhill, although the current Jiraiya fight looks to be at least somewhat interesting, if only for the fact that he appears to have three heads at the moment. Which is oddly hilarious, even though he's currently fighting
One Piece is still made of win and awesome, what with Brooke saving Usopp's keister, Gecko Moria in his Zombie Mecha named Oz, and the rest of the Strawhats, sans Luffy, getting ready to kick some serious zombie ass.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! continues with the awesome conspiracy theories, and my favorite bit thus far, MASSIVE support for my OT3/4.
And as for the newest addition, Trigun... It's pretty damn awesome so far. Vash is a ginormous dork, Wolfwood is a priest who carries around a cross shaped machine gun, and Milly and Meryl promise to be very interesting. So far, it's worth the effort. Also the anime is very shiny, highly amusing, and Vash's VA is the one who voices Spandam. Which makes me cackle.
That actually felt kind of good, getting everything laid out like that. Now if I could only update the fic I've been writing, seeing as how I've already got it on the Pit...