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rich_jacko) wrote2012-11-04 08:58 pm
rich_jacko) wrote2012-11-04 08:58 pm
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Not so special?
So, following this week's Star Wars announcement, is anyone up for watching the original trilogy next Saturday, from 5pm? This'll be the non-Special Editions, so Han will shoot first and there'll be no enhanced Battle of Yavin, no guy in a Wampa suit, and no Gungans or Hayden Christensen in Jedi.
The hectic pace of life seems to be slowing down for a bit. I think this is a pre-Christmas lull. Today I have had the excitement of removing a dead pigeon from my back yard and replacing a broken toilet seat hinge for the first time in my life. Oooh, all the little fun things that come with home ownership.
No roleplaying this evening as two of our players are ill. There seems to be a lot of that around at the moment. At the moment (*touch wood*) I seem to be getting away with just a bit of a cough and a cold.
I did, however, see Frankenweenie 3D earlier today (evening showings have stopped, so I thought I'd better catch it quick). 3D black-and-white stop-motion monsters are cool, but the whole thing felt a bit unnecessary. It's mostly a straight remake, just with a new sub-plot involving kids competing to win a science project. This throws in a whole load of stuff about using power responsibly, which complicates the sweet and simple message of the 1984 live-action original.
Earlier in the weekend was good - On Friday we had a great new FFS venue in the upstairs room of the Red Deer, a pub I used to go to all the time and now don't go to nearly often enough. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
longrat for organising yet again.
Yesterday evening I went tokaickul's housewarming party, where there was food, fireworks and fantastically silly films. Standing outside up on the hill, watching fireworks go off all across the city was pretty awesome :o)
The hectic pace of life seems to be slowing down for a bit. I think this is a pre-Christmas lull. Today I have had the excitement of removing a dead pigeon from my back yard and replacing a broken toilet seat hinge for the first time in my life. Oooh, all the little fun things that come with home ownership.
No roleplaying this evening as two of our players are ill. There seems to be a lot of that around at the moment. At the moment (*touch wood*) I seem to be getting away with just a bit of a cough and a cold.
I did, however, see Frankenweenie 3D earlier today (evening showings have stopped, so I thought I'd better catch it quick). 3D black-and-white stop-motion monsters are cool, but the whole thing felt a bit unnecessary. It's mostly a straight remake, just with a new sub-plot involving kids competing to win a science project. This throws in a whole load of stuff about using power responsibly, which complicates the sweet and simple message of the 1984 live-action original.
Earlier in the weekend was good - On Friday we had a great new FFS venue in the upstairs room of the Red Deer, a pub I used to go to all the time and now don't go to nearly often enough. Thanks to
longrat for organising yet again.Yesterday evening I went to
kaickul's housewarming party, where there was food, fireworks and fantastically silly films. Standing outside up on the hill, watching fireworks go off all across the city was pretty awesome :o)