Tuesday business

[yendi]

Today is the Insane Day of Business. No meetings, at least, just Things that Have to Get Done.

I'm currently reading B Is for Burglar, and enjoying it. I think PI books were a lot more fun before the Internet and cell phones made everything too damned easy. Other than the The Burke series (which isn't really about solving crimes, anyway), I don't think I've got any Internet-enabled mysteries on my must-read list. Give me The Continental Op any day.

docorion left town last night, and made it safely to South Carolina (and probably beyond by this point), for those wondering. Still no laptop, though.

We did some catching up on Tivo last night, watching both Robot Chickens (and the latest not only had a reference to Sleepaway Camp, but even had a nerdy guy making almost the exact same comment about it that I made! Woohoo!) and Desperate Housewives (with Lisa Darr as a guest star! Woohoo redux!). After shadesong went to bed, I caught Deadwood. It's great to see supporting folks from last year like Sol and Dan really coming into their own. 'course, the problem with having this big a cast is that there are just some folks who fall by the wayside -- I don't recall seeing Utter or Jane at all last night, and I'm not sure I can remember the last time I saw Merrick. Still, such a good show.

Not much in the way of morning surfing, but A9 (the Amazon search engine) can now be configured with a whole slew of extra searches, from Wikipdia to a chess database to NASA. Very nifty.

Work beckons like a horrible beckoning thing, and I must respond, alas.

Comments

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

That's probably part of what keeps Parker's Spenser novels fun for me. He does PI work the old-fashioned way. Spenser and Hawk had a brief discussion of the Internet in one of the more recent books in which they concluded that the primary content of the internet seemed to be naked pictures of ugly people.

[envoy.livejournal.com]

Hah! I went looking up sleepaway camp last night because of the RC episode. A little bit of digging revealed that they're making a 5th one *right now*.

Oh, I also found this site (http://www.bumpworthy.com/), which tells you what the music is behind all those cool inter-program AS animations

[taiste.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I forgot all about those Burke books! Thank you.

[zeyr.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...with your good recommendation, I think I'm going to have to add the alphabetical mysteries to my 'must check this out sometime' list.

Of course, I have a lot of the classic stuff yet to be consumed that will be ahead of it on my plans. ;)

[litch.livejournal.com]

a horrible beckoning thing
death on a blind date?

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

The only thing with that Robot Chicken joke on Crying Game/Sleepaway Camp is that THREE movies end that way.

Also... that's not how Crying Game ends... the revelation comes like what? 20-30 minutes before the end if I recall.

[lordrexfear.livejournal.com]

Oh and yes, I'm testing you to figure out the third movie.

[yendi]

The fourth one never really got made, actually. They filmed a little bit (which was included on the bonus disk in the box set), but that was it.

The fifth one sounds interesting, although more as a return to the original concept. Which is fine with me -- I liked the horror of the first one as much as the campiness (sorry) of the other two.

[yendi]

True. Although I have gotten a bit jaded on Spenser, partially because the thirty-year difference from the first book until now doesn't seem to have impacted him enough. It's a problem I often have with series over time. But Parker is still way better than almost anyone else in the field.

[yendi]

You're welcome! I adore the series. I read the most recent one just a month or two ago.

[yendi]

Ah, the eternally-growing to-read pile! I know it well. :-)

[yendi]

*nod* A good portion of the movie was the main character trying to reconcile his feelings for Lil with his sexual preferences.

[yendi]

The only one that comes to mind is Ace Ventura, but that was a parody, so doesn't really count.

[corwinok.livejournal.com]

Parker himself has addressed that in a couple interviews. Basically, when Spenser started getting to the point he'd be way too old to keep being that intensely physical, he started eliminating references to some of the more distant dates in Spenser's past, like his time as a soldier in Korea. He's not done writing those stories, but does recognize that Spenser basically needs to quit aging entirely to keep going.

Hawk, on the other hand, is ageless and eternal, and was most likely not of woman born to boot. He rocks my world, and still has Avery Brooks's voice in my head when I read :)