It's 2 am. Your hamster is safely in his cage.

[crantz]

Hidey ho. I'm progressing on graduating university this year. But I've fallen a bit behind on schoolwork, which is not great. I'm going to have to get my ass in gear over the next three days to catch up again.

I've started playing City of Heroes regularly again (is this related to falling behind?) and ah it delights the mind and senses. I've been drawing lots of drawings of my beautiful stupid man character Silver Cygnet, a guy who ended up with a giant pair of swan wings after he tried a spell that promised to get him high. He's a wizard now, technically, and fights crime in a decidedly non-violent fashion because he's a good boy.

Speaking of CoH, every once in a while I read general chat and there's someone in there posting like they think they're John C. Lilly and I have about as much tolerant for blazed out nonsense as you would expect. However, just blocking them is a better and more effective reaction than glaring at the screen. I really think the fact that nonsense annoys me so much is a fatal flaw of mine, but I don't want to work on it. I just want people to stop.

Updating my webcomic again (hamsterwheel.art) and I'm going to have another page up in a day or two once I've had a day or two to spot any art errors. It's about my cat, who I draw as some sort of demon creature.

I'm watching Marie the Toy Poodle for the next few days - she's very fluffy because it's almost her grooming time and as a result she looks like a baby polar bear.

Movie-wise, we sort of drifted from filling in pop cultural stuff to 'this seems neat' but we're moving back on target. We watched the original King Kong* and I have to conclude, I am not a fan of Kong! He has bad vibes! He squished those villagers into the mud to kill them just to be mean and I am like, you get what you get, ape. You get what you get. Ann Darrow is very sweet and me and the Movie Pals had fun coming up with reasons why she was, in fact, totally safe on that boat full of men.

Tonight was Little Shop of Horrors (original), and Not of this Earth, a double-feature of short Corman films. I really liked them.


*I have a new enemy now because of it, btw.

Me: I just watched the original King Kong
Person: The 30s version or the 2005 Peter Jackson version
Me: Why would I call something from 2005 the original?
Person: Some people don't know their Cinema History

At which point I assume they burst into flames from how irritated I was.

Comments

[ashenmote]

Oh no reverse genie wish! Poor SC. I hope they stopped the drug seeking behavior after that experience.

I desperately wanted to befriend a toy poodle named Krølle once but we had to cross his lot to leave or enter our lot, and that troubled him. Have fun with Marie!

Person tried to steer towards a "Wow you know your King-Kongs!" moment and had their lines already loaded, but yours were such a bad fit that they soldiered on without you. Haha, I had a lot of lunch with that dynamic.

At least both of you didn't get out of the conversation what you wanted.

[tainry]

<3

[crantz]

Outside of heroing, he's a grad student in the Quantum Chronology department, so honestly I think sometimes just to do his studies he needs to open his mind a little. Also he enjoys himself.

Poor little creature! Marie is very chill unless someone is directly outside my apartment door and then she is Upset. She is so cute right now though, all napping and was super cuddly earlier.

That is a much kinder view than how it felt to me, as an attempt to score a brightest boy in the conversation point. Anyway I talked with someone else about the movie after that.

Tonight's movie w/the bff was The Mirror Crack'd which is a decent Agatha Christie movie but the old age makeup they put on Angela Lansbury is so funny.

[crantz]

hullo hullo

[ashenmote]

I'm mostly fine with heroes having fun, it's just that flying characters have this unfortunate tendency to end up part-cyborg. :P

But that's what I meant, too? He meant to establish his King Kong expertise holding a single piece of trivia, so he couldn't just have any old conversation with you, it had to be that one in particular!

Ah, Mord im Spiegel! I don't remember anything, I should remedy that.

[phosfate]

I always bring up the 1976 version. "Rene Auberjonois's in it." It's not great, it's very long, and has a hilariously inaccurate poster of Kong with one foot planted on each of the World Trade Center towers. But at least that version used an oil tanker so they didn't have to handwave exactly how they got Kong from the Pacific to NYC in that dinky-ass 1933 boat.

[ashenmote]

I remember that poster.
Nowadays I only haven't seen the Kong vs Godzilla stuff, but for the longest time I knew all of them only through the Mad parodies. Which didn't put me at much of an disadvantage because they were so good.

[crantz]

The mad parodies sound more fun.

[crantz]

Silver Cygnet's not going to lose any limbs, I promise! Although those wings aren't technically attached to him - they float a centimetre off his body so I didn't have to worry too much about how he got shirts on.

Ohh. That's fun - for him I assumed the meanest thing, for you I assumed the kindest thing.

It was a solid movie. They left out the adopted kid subplot (they left in only part of another and implied someone died rather than the book plot) that made Gregg *particularly* unsympathetic but I otherwise felt it was a good version of the book.

[ashenmote]

Yeah and they were so amazing with faces! Regularly, if I knew an actor only from MAD and then I finally saw their real faces, there was no new information there

[ashenmote]

Oh cool! This way the wings are never intoxicated even if Silver Cygnet is! Can he remove them for sleep/undercover work?

Aw, more people should do that.

[crantz]

No, they're stuck there. He sleeps on his front.