Speaking of The Crowe

The Intarwebz are informing me today that he is apparently going to be in a remake of the 80’s TV show The Equalizer. My fangirly brain was dubious about this, and had the following conversation with itself:

Rational: Oh god not another remake!
Fangirly: But, but, but, RUSSELL! Shooting things!
Rational: But it’s ANOTHER REMAKE!
Fangirly: What part of RUSSELL SHOOTING THINGS are you not getting here?
Rational: This is yet another movie that’s standing between him and making a Master and Commander sequel.
Fangirly: …… well, you do have a point there.

I remember when The Equalizer was out, mind you, though I never watched it; I was too young to be its target audience at the time. Intellectually I can appreciate though that it seems like Russell would be a good match for the character. Wikipedia says the show was well-received and ran for four seasons, which matches my own vague recollection of it.

Anybody out there actually watch the show? If you did, what are your recollections of it?

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A few hours have gone by, so

It must be time for another Book Roundup! Purchased or acquired lately by me:

• Pure Blood, by blackaire (Caitlin Kittredge), Book 2 of her Nocturne City series. Urban fantasy. Re-purchased in print even though I’d tried to re-buy her books in electronic form, because apparently this is the only book of that series not available on the Barnes and Noble ebook store. They have books 1, 3, 4, and 5, but not 2! Which makes no damn sense to me, and B&N’s customer service can’t tell me anything helpful, so I guess I get to read this ‘un in print.
• Aristoi, by Walter Jon Williams. SF. Y’all may recall I read this already as a library book, since it was recommended to me by gfish. Found a used paperback copy at Third Place, so I leapt on it!
• Where Serpents Sleep, by C.S. Harris. Mystery. Book 4 of the Sebastian St. Cyr series, which I’m enjoying. Bought in print since I’d started buying it in print before and I like to be consistent about these things!
• Dreams of the Compass Rose, by Vera Nazarian. Yoinked for free electronically from Smashwords here, since she’s making it available for the time being in the hopes of building her reader base. I like free books, so hey!
• The Glades: Pilot, by Clifton Campbell. This isn’t actually a novel; it’s the script of the pilot of a forthcoming TV series. B&N had it available as a free download, presumably to promote the show. Again: free stuff! The show’s a crime drama, apparently about a detective who is framed and accused of having an affair with his boss’s wife and exiled to the Everglades.
• Soul Identity, by Dennis Batchelder. Another free download from Barnes and Noble, which seems to be sort of SF/thriller-y.
• Home Safe, by Elizabeth Berg. Yet another free download from B&N, only this time this was via their in-store promotion where if you came in and told them you were a Nook owner, they’d give you a voucher for a download of the free ebook of the week. I happened to grab this ‘un. Don’t know if I’ll like it, since it seems to be more of a “women’s lit” thing, but we’ll see!
• Siren of the Waters, by Michael Genelin. One more free download from B&N; this one seems, again, SF/mystery/thriller-y.
• On Her Trail, by Marcelle Dubé. Romantic suspense. I actually won this as part of Carina Press promoting its launch! Which is neat, since I’d been planning on buying it.

I think that’s everything, and that brings me up to 162 for the year.

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Rare sightings of Anna social in the wild!

This is a few days after the fact at this point but I wanted to do a shout-out post on behalf of a couple of very nice encounters I had last week.

First, I had lunch with two of my old coworkers from the Times, Kathy and Adila, and that was great. Conversation and tasty sushi were had by all, and we vowed to do this again. For general reference, local-to-Seattle peeps, Sam’s Sushi in Queen Anne is good tasty lunch-type sushi.

Second, solarbird and I had the pleasure of a visit from the Schrams (mathmuffin and frostmuffin), two friends from the East Coast we hadn’t seen in ages, who were traveling through these parts with their daughter xelona to visit their other daughter Fiona (whose LJ, if she’s on LJ, I’m forgetting). We had very tasty Thai food on Friday night and then adjourned to the Murk to play Mah Jongg. Dara and I hadn’t played Mah Jongg in AGES, and despite the fact that I completely lost track of where our cheat sheets were, I managed to remember enough to still keep score. Amy nudged me about how much various tile combinations were worth, and that was more than enough to get us through an entire set.

It was great fun, and Dara and I quickly decided we really need to play more Mah Jongg again. If any local peeps want in, let us know!

Meanwhile, it was wonderful to see the Schrams again. Amy and Erin and Sharayah are on the way back East again, and get to stop at Mt. St. Helens and at other nifty spots on the way. I envy them the whole Traveling Across the Country thing.

On Saturday, the Murkworks descended en masse to The Burninghand, where kathrynt and llachglin were hosting a “yay jessicac is having a baby!” party. Lots of tasty snacks and lovely conversation were had, and most notably, tasty cupcakes! Lillian and Moira were very, very three years old and four years old, respectively. And were quite adamant about asking Dara and me to come into the backyard and play with them. This was to involve pretending to be on the bus going to Disneyland, although I apparently weighed too much and was to get off the bus before they got there! (Gee, thanks a lot, Moira, I’m down 25 pounds, whaddya want, kid? ;) )

This week has been kind of crazy-making at work, but in the sort of challenging “trying to solve particularly thorny QA problems that are driving QA, Dev, and IT collectively crazy” kind of way rather than anything really, y’know, bad. So it’s nice to have had some relaxing social encounters.

And there definitely needs to be more Mah Jongg. Especially since on Saturday morning, spazzkat produced the cheat sheets!

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