Fall, finally (briefly)

[bironic]

Shana tova, Rosh Hashanah-celebrating friends. I am starting the new year by eating snacks and writing noncon. *facepalm*

It FINALLY cooled off -- "fun" fact, Boston almost beat its record for number of consecutive nights when the low didn't go below 60F -- so I am ready to acknowledge the approach of autumn, my favorite season. Will this be the year I finally make that Grim Reapers vid? Probably not, looking at the rest of the fannish to-do list.

Late October is shaping up to be fun!

- Employer-sponsored screening of The Mummy (1932)

- National Theatre Live reprise of Frankenstein - so now I can see Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor to complement the last time it screened here

- "Frankenweek" programming at Harvard, including a day-long symposium and series of Film Archive screenings, four of which I haven't yet seen: The Curse of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

- Pumpkins? This year's theme at the Providence zoo jack-o-lanterns show involves magic, myths and superheroes. Granted, nothing will beat the year they did postage stamps.

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- "Frankenweek" programming at Harvard, including a day-long symposium and series of Film Archive screenings, four of which I haven't yet seen: The Curse of Frankenstein, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, Abbot & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

I am looking forward to this so much. Also the Brattle is screening

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I am looking forward to this so much. Also the Brattle is screening <a href="http://www.brattlefilm.org/2018/10/30/it-1967/"<i>It!</i></a> (1967), which has never from the first time I heard about it sounded good, but which I still feel some strange obligation to see.

[bironic]

Oh, neat. I'll keep an eye out for you at the Frankenstein stuff, then. (I know we haven't met, so hope that doesn't sound creepy - I've been to a few of your panels at Readercon and have reasonable confidence of recognizing you. :) )

I've seen parts of It! but never straight through. Not one of my favorite Stephen King stories.

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Yikes, I am sorry about that HTML. I commented from my reading page and did not see the garble.

I know we haven't met, so hope that doesn't sound creepy - I've been to a few of your panels at Readercon and have reasonable confidence of recognizing you.

I was wondering based on this post if we'd met in person. I was worried we had and I wasn't recognizing you in your online incarnation.

I've seen parts of It! but never straight through. Not one of my favorite Stephen King stories.

This is the 1967 Psycho rip-off with Roddy McDowall and the Golem of Prague. Which is why I am thinking of seeing it, on grounds of sheer WTF.

[bironic]

Oh, oh! That's much more appealing. Yes, in retrospect of course the Tim Curry It! adaptation wouldn't have been from 1967.

[disgruntled_owl]

I didn't realize you have never seen Curse of Frankenstein! Well, now we extra have to go. For the Cheekbones of Scientific Obsessiveness, of course.

[sovay]

For the Cheekbones of Scientific Obsessiveness, of course.

Seconded.

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