So I Suck At Blogging

I pay money for this thing and then don't update it.  THAT IS NOT A SOUND BUSINESS MODEL. 

Things have been going just fine for me, not much new to report.  My roller derby team won our opening bout in October.  I have to confess that this was the first bout I came away from feeling like I had actually contributed and being overall pleased with how I did.  It was a pretty great feeling. 

The day before the November bout a horror convention called Crypticon came to the Twin Cities.  My roller derby league had a table there and we got to meet some pretty cool people.  John Kassir, who many of you will recognize as the voice of the Crypt Keeper, had a table and actually came to our bout and served as a Guest Announcer for a bit which was pretty badass of him.  He was a really good sport.  I even got to chat with him a bit!

 
That is Stalker Channing - one of my teammates - on the right.  I was half in the bag when this photo was taken which is why I was ballsy enough to put my arm around him.  I babbled a bunch of stuff about feeling like truly talented voice actors are really taken for granted but I must have sounded coherent enough because he seemed touched.  That sweater he is wearing in the photo? SUPER. SOFT.

I also met Doug Jones at Crypticon and although I don't have a photo to share with you, a few were taken - I will post them once I get them.  He said my fuzzy head was adorable and couldn't stop rubbing it.  He gave me a huge hug and told me he wanted to put me in his pocket because I am so tiny and wee.  I am embarassed to admit that I almost cried when I was talking to him but I was really excited; I am always impressed by actors that can be expressive even under a thousand pounds of prosthetics and makeup.  I totally gushed about his performance in Pan's Labryinth and I think I even used the word "captivating" which sounds like movie review talk and was probably not what I would have normally said BUT I'm sure he met people over the course of the weekend who said much odder stuff.

My mother is flying the husband and I to Florida for X-Mas for a visit, I am pretty excited about that.  I miss my little brothers a lot.  I am not looking forward to flying, however.  I have only flown once before (coincidentally, to Florida from Wisconsin and back, so the flight will be pretty similar) and I was in such a horrible, panicked state that I was sick the entire time.  Basically from the time the engines started until the time I was permitted to exit the plane.  It is pretty much impossible to avoid being sick when you are thinking OH MY GOD THIS TIN CAN IS GOING TO FALL OUT OF THE SKY AT ANY MOMENT WE ARE ALL ABOUT TO DIE the entire time.  Terrible! But that was some time ago so I am hoping I will be more collected this time around.  I think I am going to see if I can wheedle some Valium out of my doctor just in case.  She is pretty cool, she may prescribe me a couple. 

ALSO because I was bored at work and because I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about, I read Twilight last week.  OH! If you are like me and delight in terrible books and movies you should at least hit up your local library and check this puppy out for a day.  It is easily one of the worst books I have ever read.  I wrote a review for Amazon.  Here is an excerpt:

"The plot is nonexistent, consisting almost entirely of the development of the "romance" between Bella and Edward. These characters are husks, unable even to hold up this unwieldy story arc in an interesting manner - like trying to prop up a house with dried corn cobs."

For those of you out there bitching "BUT AT LEAST GIRLS ARE READING" you can shut the fuck up now.  I would much rather they weren't reading at all if this is the kind of horseshit they are going to call "the greatest book evar!!1".  ATTENTION TEENAGE GIRLS: PLEASE HAVE SOME STANDARDS.

The day after I read Twilight I read Flowers In The Attic which is also brainless and awful AND full of craziness that requires total suspension of disbelief.  It is so unbelievable the main character could have said at the end "Oh also we are all elves" and I would have thought "well THAT explains some of this mess".  It is fantastic.  I picked up a hardcover at Half Price Books for two bucks. 

In the "good books" category I also found old paperback copies of Rosemary's Baby (!) and War of The Worlds (!!!) which I am really excited to read. 

That is about all I have right now.  Except I did want to say before I publish this that my heart goes out to the family of the man who was trampled while working at Wal-Mart on Black Friday.  That is horrible.  I imagine anyone who has worked in retail found the story disquieting - when I read it all of the hairs on the back of my neck stood up.  I think people really underestimate how insane people are when they start their X-Mas shopping.  It is very, very disturbing.

Comments

[Chris]

Holy crap! An update!!

The Crypt Keeper is really short, eh?

I've never read 'The War of the Worlds' even though I've seen like every movie version and even had the Orson Welles radio dealy (in its entirety!) as an .mp3 back in the glory days of Napster. Sadly, that computer died and I lost it (and a shitload of other stuff I'll never be able to find again).

Stupid dying computers.