a return

[jazzfish]

Moore Slams V For Vendetta Movie, Pulls LoEG from DC Comics: "'They seemed to believe that the head of 20th Century Fox called me up and persuaded me to steal this screenplay, turning it into a comic book which they could then adapt back into a movie, to camouflage petty larceny.' This led to Moore giving a ten-hour deposition -- he believes he'd have suffered less if he'd 'sodomised and murdered a busload of children after giving them heroin.'" [via bOING bOING] I must say, the V movie looks a bit less compelling now.

And Kitten War, for those who haven't met their now-i-ded-from-cute quota.

Had a post written on Satyrday about the previous week and the power failure. Then Dana ate it. *sigh*

According to ndkid I have a temporary job doing testing at VirPack, starting tomorrow. The way the rain is coming down outside the sky may actually be falling, or I may show up tomorrow at ten to have someone say "Whoops, our bad." Guess we'll see. It'll be odd getting back to computerwork again. I can only hope that my general optimism and ebullience will carry me further than they did last time.

Been pondering Daoism, reading Raymond Smullyan's The Tao is Silent, and trying to get thoughts in order. I think that wants a post all its own, though, and probably not 'til I've finished the book.

Playing Battletech/Mechwarrior; Ross and I are running a (3025-era) mercenary company called Two Guys And A Dropship. We're in the middle of our first fight, and I suspect our light lance is in the process of getting cut to ribbons. *sigh* I have (re)learned a few things, though. Like don't shoot 'til you see the whites of their eyes, and there's no such thing as overkill.

Few are wholly dead.
Blow on a corpse's embers,
And a live flame will start.
--Robert Graves

Also, the C-burg Target has a bunch of remaindered hardbacks for a quarter (at least, they were a quarter on Sunday. They may be off discount and all the way up to a buck now). I got myself a book by Caroline Stevermer (half of Sorcery and Cecilia), Margaret Cho's I'm the One That I Want, and a cute photo/quotes book of Overheard At the Bookstore.

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[sir-alf.livejournal.com]

Playing Battletech/Mechwarrior; Ross and I are running a (3025-era) mercenary company called Two Guys And A Dropship.

Is this tabletop, online, etc?

[jazzfish]

Tabletop. It's an interesting experience, sort of the boardgame equivalent of Privateer: we take contracts, blow stuff up, use the proceeds to buy better blowing-up stuff for ourselves, repeat. If it were a computer game it might get boring and repetitive after the first 50 or so missions, but that would be an insane amount of realtime. So I suspect it'll be fine.

[narquelion.livejournal.com]

Assuming, of course, that the sky stays hanging another day, I must insist on buying you lunch the rest of the week, for various practical and philosophical reasons, most of which I expect you already know. *bows*

[rbandrews]

I think the lance is fine. Mechs, both ours and Nathan's, don't die in one hit. A couple of the lights will take some damage, but that's part of the job, and we're not going to lose any.

So how does a studio get away with making a film where the main character is a terrorist? Or are they going to do what they did to From Hell, and change who the protagonist is? That might actually be interesting (in a sad sort of way): a film where V is crushed by the Orwellian government.
I bet it would be popular now too.

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

So how does a studio get away with making a film where the main character is a terrorist?

Either by casting Liam Neeson (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117039/) or Mel Gibson (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117039/) as the main character. Alternatively, it seems to work if the victimized government is British, or if agents of that government have British accents (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/). I'm not very familiar with V for Vendetta but it sounds like the latter would apply, although it seems likely (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360486/) to me that the movie will have an Americanized setting.

[uilos.livejournal.com]

Moore has had a tendency to "punish" publishers for what he believes are personal betrayals or shoddy behaviour. And he refuses to change, even when circumstances do.

I found this statement to be more hilariously funny than it was probably meant to be.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Smullyan can be fascinating. There was a section at the end of "What Is The Name Of This Book?" (I believe) which set off thought processes that changed my outlook on many things.

[dasphios.livejournal.com]

Be careful about Mechwarrior (or at least mentioning it); one or two wrong words and you'll be stuck listening to my war stories about it for the next decade.