Whew. Lots of crying babies here. My nieces are adorable when they’re fresh but when they get a little tired and ornery, look out. They’ve got some pipes.

Bolton 3, Ars* 1 — You’ll be hard pressed to find me cheering for Bolton’s best rugby side, but today is one such day. Hello Arse. That’s you, twelve points off the title chase. Thanks for playing.

I can hardly wait to see what Arse Whinger has to say. There are a number of reasons why I can’t stand Ars*nal and the incessant whining (from both managers and players) ranks right up at the top. Apparently, Whinger feels that other teams need to open up and let his side walk the ball into the goal and has said a thousand times that their opponents play negative football. And while that may be true, aren’t they doing that to Man Ure and Chelski as well? Yet those teams have a dozen more points. Hmmm.

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I finished In Cold Blood Wednesday and thought it was great. Amy got Capote through Netflix and we watched half of it last night. I’m relatively unimpressed. Hoffman does a great job being Capote but the film has a scattershot feel to it like it’s trying to do too much. They probably would have been better served to focus on a single element: the effeminate Capote trying to pull the story from the rural Kansas folk; his searching for the story amidst the research; Capote’s relationship with Perry Smith. The last is clearly the film’s intent but, if that’s the case, then too much is made of the others. There’s also an inordinate amount of focus on Harper Lee. I find her part in the larger story fascinating, but this is a two-hour movie, not a two-week miniseries. For a writer, I think the tandem of reading the book and following up with the movie is great. I’m getting a lot more out of it than if I’d had one without the other.

I’ve also been reading Fourfront, a selection of modern Irish short stories originally written in Gaelic and then translated into English. This is an assigned reading for my Current Literary Scene class and I’ve really enjoyed it. The stories have a definite “translated” feel to them, whatever that means, and they also have a lot in common with speculative fiction. Or “literary” speculative fiction. Whatever that means. Reading stuff like this for a class feels like a bonus. I would have never checked out this book but it’s really making the wheels turn.

Current Mood: Okay |
Currently Listening To – Some Odd Take on Holiday Music