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Inside Job
Jul. 16th, 2007 07:53 amVacation, Day 1: Reading, writing, and seeing a movie. My Amazon and Gencon packages are in transit, and one or both may be at the H-L today.
Jul. 16th, 2007
Today's reading: Dragonfly, by Bryan Burrough. It's an account of the Shuttle-Mir program. A very good read, and pulls no punches on either side. It hammers on the Russian obsession with secrecy and apparent indifference towards safety, and the dreadful political maneuvering that NASA has to go through (and seems to thrive on internally). Somewhere along the line, reading this led me to read about Chernobyl, too.
Today's writing: A Starship Troopers article for Pyramid. Couldn't really get spooled up for either M&M or Spycraft.
Today's movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It's not really bad, but it is astoundingly not good. The Fantasticar should not have a Dodge gunsight grill or be powered by a Hemi (and just so you know, Dodge, people that know cars nowadays know that that vaunted term doesn't mean nearly as much now as it did 35 years ago). Some redemption in the way Dr. Doom was handled. And I may be one of seven people on the planet who liked Galactus as a big honkin' cloud. That's one of the few things that I think the Ultimates line does better than Marvel-616. I'm just not taken with a giant man wearing a pointy pope-hat as a world-devouring cosmic entity.
An upcoming JSA story arc is going to see the Kingdom Come Superman joining the Society. No good at all can come of this, especially since we've by now seen the "And Evil Will Inherit the Earth" poster with KCSuperman. I am greatly digging on this title.
Today's writing: A Starship Troopers article for Pyramid. Couldn't really get spooled up for either M&M or Spycraft.
Today's movie: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. It's not really bad, but it is astoundingly not good. The Fantasticar should not have a Dodge gunsight grill or be powered by a Hemi (and just so you know, Dodge, people that know cars nowadays know that that vaunted term doesn't mean nearly as much now as it did 35 years ago). Some redemption in the way Dr. Doom was handled. And I may be one of seven people on the planet who liked Galactus as a big honkin' cloud. That's one of the few things that I think the Ultimates line does better than Marvel-616. I'm just not taken with a giant man wearing a pointy pope-hat as a world-devouring cosmic entity.
An upcoming JSA story arc is going to see the Kingdom Come Superman joining the Society. No good at all can come of this, especially since we've by now seen the "And Evil Will Inherit the Earth" poster with KCSuperman. I am greatly digging on this title.