Plooky Night Live (and the Not RK for TIP Thread Players) with your host F. Myles Ron

[WillieLee]

If you're the person who invented LOL, you'll love Girls.

[TIP]

Also speaking of the UK, I got the latest Empire Magazine, and there's an extended Prometheus article. There's also a Lethal Weapon reunion interview and photoshoot.

With/without Mel?

[Cactusakic]

Good haul! Finally got your Severed HC, I see!

Yeah, it finally appeared on Amazon super-cheap, but still no sign of the Aparo Batman HC or Stormwatch Vol 1 HC.


Oh well, they'll likely be my first HC purchases of May now instead.

[Artie Pink]

With/without Mel?

It's Mel, Danny Glover, and director Richard Donner. It's pretty light stuff but those three have a good chemistry on screen and off. Mel is normal and funny in the interview, his scotch levels must have been balanced. As I was reading, I kinda just wanted Murtaugh to say "what the hell's been wrong with you, Riggs?"

Donner ran into the "but... but you're bleck!" guy a couple weeks ago, he says. The guy came up to him on the street and said, "Mr. Donner, do you remember me, I'm the "but your bleck" guy!" and they laughed and laughed.

Oh and they also get Joe Pesci to do his first interview in ten years, too. Pesci might be turning into David Ferrie in his self-imposed exile... But he's got a couple projects in the works, one with Scorsese.

[Gregory]

Oh and they also get Joe Pesci to do his first interview in ten years, too. Pesci might be turning into David Ferrie in his self-imposed exile... But he's got a couple projects in the works, one with Scorsese.

Pesci made a Snickers ad about six months back. Maybe a year. Anyway, that's the latest thing I've seen with Pesci.

[WillieLee]

I finished reading H.M.S. Surprise last night, which is the third of the Aubrey and Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian. He's a really good writer. It's hard t explain why, because he isn't flashy, but he's just elegant, subtle, and economical. His characters are fully-formed enough that you know what they're thinking in particular situations without him spelling it out for you, and so he doesn't bother spelling it out. Or he'll strip his transitions down to nothing without it ever being jarring. He'll have something like (sort of a made up example, not a direct quote):

"Is Stephen awake yet? Can I see him?"
Jack pursed his lips. "Just try not to upset him."
"How are you?" she asked.

In context, it's clear that she's gone below deck and is now talking to Stephen, but I feel as if most writers would worry that some readers would see that "How are you?" directly following "Just try not to upset him" as a direct response to Jack. O'Brian trusts the reader's intelligence, though.

Again, I know this is simple stuff, and not exactly pyrotechnic, but reading these books I'm really in awe of just how masterful and elegant his narrative style is. Some of the best straight-forward realist prose I've ever read.

That's lazy.

[Artie Pink]

That's lazy.

Just try not to upset him. How are you?

[WillieLee]

Just try not to upset him. How are you?

Picked up scones. It's over by the fridge.

[WillieLee]

I wish people would use boom microphones when recording Mel Gibson's rants.

[Gregory]

That's lazy.

He saves his energy for describing the wood grain of mizzenmasts.

The film Master & Commander is fantastic. I could watch it weekly.