And then it was July.

[bironic]

Internet! Never leave me again. *clutches*

We lost connectivity for about five days after the big storm blew through Friday night. Thankfully, we only lost power for about an hour. It's been a real mess in the area with huge downed branches and debris in the roads, traffic lights out, buildings closed, and friends and coworkers without power during a heat wave that still hasn't abated. They measured wind gusts of 80 mph. One week later, things are almost back to normal.

I wasn't even in town when it happened; I was up in PA visiting synn, hurrah, after she'd been away on a long business trip. We got quite the lightning show, but no audible rain or wind.

Things that have happened in the last week:

• Went to an excellent barbecue for the 4th, where there were friends and friends-of-friends and also hot dogs (hot dogs! it'd been maybe a year), plus many fannish quotables that I didn't write down and therefore have completely forgotten. I made these patriotic strawberries for the occasion. Yum.


• Got my Kink Bingo card, chose a column, and started a fic. It... may involve Beauty and the Beast characters. Two thousand words and counting.


• Watched Thor (terrible, but the Asgard costumes were pretty) and Captain America (surprisingly enjoyable and much more heartfelt in comparison, plus bonus Hugo Weaving) with synn. Now am possibly up to speed on the whole Avengers blockbuster-backstory thing. Minus The Hulk, which I don't plan on seeing.


• We also watched two fun/awful/sweet gay movies: Longhorns (2011), which started out ridiculous and managed to get even more so, and The Trip (2002), in which not!Armand seduced low-budget!Jake Gyllenhaal and then it was historical fiction set in San Francisco in the 70s and 80s and then it was a Mexican road trip/heist.


• Still haven't gotten around to seeing Prometheus. Or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Soon enough it will be time too for Batman: Inception.


• Am up to Volume Two of the Top Ten comic series that holli lent me at con_txt. The first volume was interesting and clever, although I know I missed countless references because I'm not well versed in comics. The second volume so far is excellent. The first chapter/issue centered on the aftermath of a midair accident that fused some travelers together, sort of like splinching in Harry Potter, and was really haunting. Now there are gladiatorial games and angst.


• Keeping up with True Blood, which is as wacky as ever. I swear, I'd have a single-fanwork blackout picspam from the few episodes that've aired this season if only the kinks matched up to my card.

Okay. Have to post a different picspam, catch up on people's posts, and, uh, do some work.

Comments

[recrudescence.livejournal.com]

Those strawberries look amazing! And I'm intrigued by this BatB fic...

[holli.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm glad you're enjoying it! The collision story is some of Alan Moore's best work, I think.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I would not challenge anyone making that argument. I actually put the book down at the end of that issue and switched off the light for bed, because there was no way to top that and it deserved some time to sink in.

Sorry I didn't make it over to your place yesterday to return any of them! I promise to get them back to you (and in the same excellent condition). Hope the party was fun!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to stop to think about it too hard because my kid!brain might not be able to handle what kinky!adult!brain is doing to that movie. :) We shall see how it turns out!

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Nooo! How did you survive! Yes, that was rhetorical *g*

The strawberries are impressive, but the blue is somehow... not very appetising. To me. I'm clearly unpatriotic. Also, THOR IS AWESOME. LOL. I'VE SEEN IT TWICE NOW. ON PURPOSE. Coincidentally, we also just watched Captain America last weekend, and when I say 'watched', I mean I hung around until JJ made an appearance and then kind of wandered off. Hugo Weaving was a drawcard until he went all red XD

Have not managed to even start this season of True Blood. Woe.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Eh, perhaps you can marathon it later? Like the drink (I imagine), True Blood is best downed in one go.

WHAT ON EARTH IS AWESOME ABOUT THOR, inquiring minds want to know. The NYC crew loves it too, and ... I couldn't do it. I mean, I can sort of see it, there's a lot of fandom-favorite half-brother!slash there, and some cool chick scientist action, and Stellan Skarsgard. But. Not even Natalie Portman or doe-eyed man!angst Loki could save it. Thought I. Unless you (generic) also just really like bulgy muscle cutely smiling blonds?

Of course, I'm about to say "Hugo Weaving" (which I just mistyped as Huge Weaving, hm) "is awesome in everything ever" so I can see just fine where fannish opinions of things can get illogical. :)

[daasgrrl.livejournal.com]

Thor: hmm, hard to say, really. I think a lot of it comes down to the script and Branagh's overblown direction which I love. It's like a gigantic cheesy Shakespearan tragedy. Loki in green is an undeniable bonus, plus ripply blonde hunks with cute smiles. But mainly the huge Space Opera feel of it XD

[topaz-eyes.livejournal.com]

I adore those strawberries. :-D

Re Beauty and the Beast, is it strange that I thought of the TV show first before the movie?

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Nope, not strange. Although soon you will have to differentiate which show you mean - based on commercials during the last few Vampire Diaries eps I watched this week, The CW network is launching a new one in the fall with Kristin Kreuk from Smallville.

(I've been fiddling with how to do the fandom identification on my fic without having to say "Disney" and get red flagged on some corporate database... "1991" may be an okay solution...)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Branagh's overblown direction [...] It's like a gigantic cheesy Shakespearan tragedy.

Oh damn, I think that might be a convincing argument. On the Doylist side.

[thirdblindmouse.livejournal.com]

Oh no! They're casting Kristin Kreuk as ingenue again? Over the 7+ seasons of Smallville, she never grew into that role, IMO. She seemed to have a real ball whenever she got to play evil or twisted, but the show never allowed her to continue in that vein for long.