The god of thunder has awakened, bitches!

Finally, after pretty much FOREVER, thunderlord has begun posting.

All Hail the Mighty ED!

(For those playing at home, Ed is pretty much my oldest friend, being the only person I've had uninterrupted contact with since High School.)

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Damn, that was a good episode of Buffy. Funny as hell, but emotionally strong as well. Andrew's admission was something I saw coming, but it was nice to finally see it. Now he can finally begin healing, and maybe start working on that redemption for real. If you missed it, sorry. Get a VCR.

Smallville was pretty damned cool. I taped this, so if you want to see it, let me know and I'll keep it for a bit. Christopher Reeves was only in a small part of it, but it's likely he'll be back. The Superman Theme from his movies was used as incidental music during his scenes, which I thought to be a nice touch. They've altered the legend a little (the message from the ship) so far as I know, but I can live with it. Hell, Clark may not get it fully - and even if he does, it just adds a nice layer to the myth. Very nice.

Well, we must endure another week of silly WB movies instead of Angel. Blah. Maybe I'll just go to sleep early tonight. I'm bone tired.

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Elli:

Unless I made a critical error and the time for your attack has come, I still have the last Angel on tape for you.

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Well. Good news and bad news for me.

Good:

My dentist called me; they have an appointment this afternoon that is suddenly free, so I'll get the other half of my pain-wracked mouth dealt with today instead of April 1.

Bad:
This means two things:

1) I'll attend class this afternoon with a numb-then-pained mouth.
2) I have to work Saturday until noon.

Mitigation: I didn't have plans Saturday until after noon anyway, so this actually doesn't screw much up.

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Hey, I got a variation on the Nigerian Money scam this morning. This one was purportedly from a Zimbabwean whose father was killed by Mugabe's thugs.

Yeesh.

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In the YAY! CRAP! YAY! CRAP! I CANNOT CHOOSE! Category:

Beginning in May, and then with Sourcebooks released EVERY REMAINING MONTH OF 2003 . . .

The Babylon 5 RPG

A new one -- I think D20.

And ALL of the Sourcebooks sound good.

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Ok, a few small things.

1) I hate going to the dentist. No matter how nice and gentle my dentist and her staff are, I hate having sharp instruments in my mouth, especially when wielded by someone else.

2) This Lone Ranger movie isn't actually all that bad. I mean, I'd never watch it if there was anything else on, but as a background to my writing, it's not bad.

Update: Yes it is. It's terrible. My gods. What was I thinking?

3) There's a new WB show coming I already know I'll love. It's called "Black Sash", and it's a Kung Fu/Wuxia series. I know I'll like it primarily because it stars Russel Wong of Vanishing Son, and I know he wouldn't do it if it wasn't respectful of the parent genre and good storywise. Of course, Vanishing Son didn't last long as a series (it had a good following as a series of tv movies). So I hope this does better.

Here's the synopsis for the show:

Russell Wong stars as Tom Ballard (other synopses I saw called him Tom Chang -- who knows what's final), an ex-cop who has been unjustly imprisoned for seven years and has lost his career, his wife and the right to see his daughter. Forced to turn to bounty hunting to fund the costly legal battle for his daughter, Ballard finds a new family in the young men and women he trains in the Chinese martial art of Ba Gua. He relies on the spiritual guidance of his longtime mentor to balance the two demanding sides of his double life.

4) I tried something new today while waiting for class. It's a trick I'd heard about from other writers, but I'd never deigned to try it. See, my fiction writing is usually held up by disorganization. So, today I wrote notes on a bunch of characters for the Shattered World story I'm working on on a series of 3x5 cards, one to each character. Then I wrote notes on story points -- one story point per card. Now I'm in the process of refining the notes and putting them in the proper order (some scenes may move) before I finally sit down to turn the notes into full scenes. Heh. Before long there'll be a novel here.