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Dec. 30th, 2005 03:16 pmI've been too busy to update for awhile. Both time spent with West-Coast friends and working around the clock on my novel has meant I've had little time for it, though I did get caught up reading the friends-list.
Spent two Tuesday hanging out with Sam and his girlfriend from Thailand. Sam spends most of his time in southeast Asia these days -- he saves up a little money here, and then lives cheaply adventuring out there.
Also hung out with Aaron, whose life changes so rarely it's terrifying.
For writing, I've been taking advantage of internet access whenever I want to write the historical scenes of my novel -- fact-checking with reliable sources (such as primary documents on government websites) every single sentence. Trying to reconstruct the 40s and 50s when you weren't there is difficult.
I've stumbled across across a lot of neat pieces of information, like the adventures of Jack Nissenthall at Dieppe, or the extperiences of queer Canadian servicemen in World War II.
Saw Chronicles of Narnia last night. It was bad -- gorgeous to look at, but badly acted and badly scripted. Weta Studios could not save it for all their special effects. Seeing a beaver in chainmail was the most amusing part of the whole film.
The World War II allegory finally clicked in for me -- I hadn't known, when I read the book, that lions were tradional British symbols for England, foxes for France, and wolves for Germany. I guess that makes the beavers Canada.
Also amusing that, according to the IMDB, the kid who played Edmund is a direct descendent of Charles Darwin. Considering the role Edmund plays in the Christian allegory of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and considering how the evangelicals feel about Darwin, the fundamentalists would probably wet themselves if they knew.
Finally according to this meme, I belong in the Seventh Circle of hell:
( cut because this post is already too long )
For those of you not up on your Dante's Inferno, the 7th Circle is for those guilty of violence against others (who become wolves in the Circle's woods), violence against selves (suicides -- who become the trees of the wood), or "violence against God."
"Violence against God" is the miscellaneous category -- stuff that doesn't really hurt anyone. It includes blasphemy, moneylending, and homosexuality. Sinners are condemned to a desert where it rains fire -- homosexuals/bisexuals can run around, but the blasphemers are fixed to the ground, and the moneylenders held down by their money.
Spent two Tuesday hanging out with Sam and his girlfriend from Thailand. Sam spends most of his time in southeast Asia these days -- he saves up a little money here, and then lives cheaply adventuring out there.
Also hung out with Aaron, whose life changes so rarely it's terrifying.
For writing, I've been taking advantage of internet access whenever I want to write the historical scenes of my novel -- fact-checking with reliable sources (such as primary documents on government websites) every single sentence. Trying to reconstruct the 40s and 50s when you weren't there is difficult.
I've stumbled across across a lot of neat pieces of information, like the adventures of Jack Nissenthall at Dieppe, or the extperiences of queer Canadian servicemen in World War II.
Saw Chronicles of Narnia last night. It was bad -- gorgeous to look at, but badly acted and badly scripted. Weta Studios could not save it for all their special effects. Seeing a beaver in chainmail was the most amusing part of the whole film.
The World War II allegory finally clicked in for me -- I hadn't known, when I read the book, that lions were tradional British symbols for England, foxes for France, and wolves for Germany. I guess that makes the beavers Canada.
Also amusing that, according to the IMDB, the kid who played Edmund is a direct descendent of Charles Darwin. Considering the role Edmund plays in the Christian allegory of The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, and considering how the evangelicals feel about Darwin, the fundamentalists would probably wet themselves if they knew.
Finally according to this meme, I belong in the Seventh Circle of hell:
( cut because this post is already too long )
For those of you not up on your Dante's Inferno, the 7th Circle is for those guilty of violence against others (who become wolves in the Circle's woods), violence against selves (suicides -- who become the trees of the wood), or "violence against God."
"Violence against God" is the miscellaneous category -- stuff that doesn't really hurt anyone. It includes blasphemy, moneylending, and homosexuality. Sinners are condemned to a desert where it rains fire -- homosexuals/bisexuals can run around, but the blasphemers are fixed to the ground, and the moneylenders held down by their money.
