What you do here anyway? Interesting question. This was proposed to me by some lady walking past the board game store I work at. I informed her that we sold board games as well as some card games and war games. She replies, “oh, like Nintendo stuff.” No I say, none of our games are electronic. “Oh, computer stuff?” No, I say again, board games, like Monopoly, with dice and cards and a game board where you move pieces around by hand. “So I can’t play it on the tv?” No, for the third time, just board games. “Oh, that crazy, who do something dumb like that.” Have a nice day, then I return to the inside of my store where people are a little less stupid.
Archive for January, 2008
Pardon me?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008GLG20
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Is that a secret service level, or a type of bug? I have to say I am getting a kick out of the fact that people my age are currently writing tv shows. From “Chuck” to “Family Guy” I am seeing so many references to my youth. In the last episode of Chuck alone I got at least three, on reference to “Spies Like Us”, another to “Stripes” and one to “Sixteen Candles”. Now “Family Guy”, man there are so many that I can’t even keep track of them. It does remind me of how much tv I watched as a kid.
Now all these blasts from the past aren’t always good. The theme of taking my childhood shows and making feature length films out them is both a blessing and a curse. Many shows are being made into comedies, even though the originals were not. They often lead to disappointment. “Dukes of Hazzard”, at least it has Willie Nelson telling dirty jokes. “Starsky and Hutch”, um, meh. “Transformers”, about what I expected it to be, which wasn’t all that much. “Bewitched”, better to just leave that one alone. “Miami…*yawn*…Vice”. There are many more still coming, “Smurfs”, “Land of the Lost”, “A-Team”. Now you do get some really great remakes, or reimaginings of old shows. Take Battlestar Galactica for example. They improved on the original so much that I almost can’t even stand to watch the old shows, well Galactica 1980 is something no one should ever watch anyways. I think part of the problem is that Hollywood feels they have to contemporize everything. Why can’t you leave things set when they were if it fits. You have a show that did well 20 or 30 years ago, don’t change too much. And some things, well, some things are better left untouched. I will personally destroy the world if anyone makes “Full House” motion picture.
Meh!
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008That pretty much sums up how I feel right now. I’m not really sad, I’m not really happy, I am just meh. The winter is starting to get to me, added along with all the other crap going down right now. My plate just seems to get piled higher and higher and I feel as though I am getting nothing done. Taxes loom in the distance, and while I hope things go well I always have some fear when it comes to the IRS. Last few years that seemed to stand for I’m Really Screwed. If all goes well it will be a better story this year.
At least I am still writing. I have managed at least a page of new material everyday since the start of the new year. Right now it is all a jumbled mess of dialogue from several different stories, but it is keeping the creative fire burning as it were. I am trying to set myself some deadlines for some writing in the hopes that it will really get me going so I can actually finish something rather than have 20 partial stories. So many ideas though and I can’t seem to stay focussed on just one.
It all could be worse though, I have a great wife, fantastic friends, and a pretty cool job, at least one of them is. Count your blessings I guess. Well, that little bit made me a little less meh.
Aha
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Wow, I finally managed to figure out how to blog on my own webpage without going through some outside source. Of course all this computer type stuff isn’t all that if you read a little bit and have a brain that is at least somewhat functional. Now lets see how often I update this thing, without readers it can be pretty easy to let it go for months on end with no new subject matter.