Mid-week errata

First up... greetings to gellemar and dragon_lord, who I see are looking in!

And now, the news! Rumor has it that I may get Friday off by way of a thank you for the overtime I've been putting in. Considering that for two weekends in a row I've had my writing time joggled by this, a day off would officially fail to suck. Especially if it's a paid day off. Cross your fingers that nothing blows up this week and that I won't have to come in on Friday after all, folks. ;)

It's May now and spring finally seems to be settling in around here, which is good--for May is the time of the Street Fair and Folklife, for which good weather is, if not precisely Vital, certainly a Great Help. solarbird and I will hopefully be able to bike down to the Street Fair as well, which will be Fun. And if the good weather as well as my potential day off hold up this weekend, I hope to get in that biking I didn't get last weekend, so I can go to the Woodinville Barnes and Noble and get mizkit's book!

Meanwhile, it also seems to be the season of writer scandals, the whole flap over Kaavya Viswanathan being the latest. And I can't say I'm terribly displeased that her publisher is pulling her books off the shelves and cancelling the contract with her. I mean, hells bells, when you get right down to it every writer on the planet ultimately cobbles a story together by pulling it from other sources... but a good one won't be practically cut-and-pasting passages from other works into her own and handwaving it off as "internalizing" them. Not that I'm peevish that a teenager can do that kind of thing and get a six-figure advance for it or anything. Much.

Tuesday evening miles: 2.4
Wednesday morning miles: 1.6
Miles out of Hobbiton: 940.3
Miles out of Rivendell: 482.3
Miles out of Lothlórien: 20.3
Miles to Rauros Falls: 368.7

New movie trailers!

First up: the new Superman Returns trailer. After a look-see, I must say Kevin Spacey does look promising as Lex Luthor, nicely reminiscent of Gene Hackman. The new kid playing Supes--well, he does seem to make a pleasantly doofy-looking Clark, somewhere between the Dean Cain Clark and the Christopher Reeve Clark, and closer to the latter, but not all the way there. Which I like. I'm more dubious about this idea of giving Lois Lane a kid, though. I get the whole concept of showing that she's Moved On(TM), but on the other hand, a Cute, Smart Kid as part of the plot is all too often a danger signal that the movie is going to suck (cases in point: The Legend of Zorro, The Mummy Returns). Here's hoping that in this instance, I'm wrong! I do want this movie to be good. :)

Next: shiny new trailer for Pirates of the Carribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest, and hee, yeah, that does look like fun. And Captain Jack gets all the good lines: "Elizabeth, those clothes do not flatter you at all, it should be a dress or nothing. I happen to have no dress in my cabin!"

Third: trailer for the new Bond flick, Casino Royale. Yeah, that looks like a Bond flick all right. Not sure yet what I think of the new guy, or whether I'll go see this at all, but we'll see what happens.

And in related news, I saw a promo poster for X3 on a bus this morning on my way into work. YES!