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Aug. 6th, 2014 11:58 pm1. The local cineplex is only offering Guardians of the Galaxy in post-converted 3D. This is something of a problem, because I Do Not Watch post-converted 3D movies.
2. In happier cinematic news, they're also running a thing where each weekend in August they're showing a classic Disney movie. For, admittedly, a value of "classic" which includes Pocahontas, which is also a thing I Do Not Watch. Despite that, and a couple of weekends where I have other things on, I'll have got two classic movies out of it: Sleeping Beauty last weekend (which I enjoyed, and which was interesting to revisit after seeing Maleficent), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a few weeks from now.
3. As a Doctor Who fan, I've been watching Big Finish's news feed lately to see their various announcements relating to their 15th anniversary as the makers of official Doctor Who audios. As a Doctor Who fan of a certain age, one announcement that caught my eye was the one revealing that they've finished the job of casting all the Doctor's companions from the New Adventures spin-off novels. One of the first things they did when they started making Doctor Who-related audio dramas 15 years ago was cast Lisa Bowerman as Benny Summerfield (because it was easier at first to get permission to make solo adventures for Benny than anything with the Doctor in), and now they've finally got around to casting Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej. The occasion is that they're making an audio adaptation of Damaged Goods, the novel that was Russell T Davies' first official bit of Doctor Who writing, years before he got the job of bringing the TV series back.
4. Yesterday's second most surprising discovery was that the reviled 1990s TV series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (that's the one which added a token female Turtle to the line-up) was live-action. It makes a sort of sense, since it came out on the heels of the live-action movies, but for the last 17 years I've just been assuming that it was animated, like the beloved Turtles series of my youth and the more recent revival. (Obviously, I've never actually watched any of it.)
5. Yesterday's most surprising discovery was that the author of Sam Tim's Ugly Day was Meicha Maarilex. (Which is doubly surprising, in the sense that the fact that it was a surprise was a surprise, since I made this discovery while reading something that I know for a fact I've read before, and which I remember quite clearly. I even remember that very sentence, except that somehow the author's name didn't register with me the first time I read it.) I wonder if I ought to be embarrassed about the squeaky gleeful noises I made; they're not uncommon, I gather, when discovering an unsuspected new book by a favoured author -- but for a fictional book by a fictional author?
2. In happier cinematic news, they're also running a thing where each weekend in August they're showing a classic Disney movie. For, admittedly, a value of "classic" which includes Pocahontas, which is also a thing I Do Not Watch. Despite that, and a couple of weekends where I have other things on, I'll have got two classic movies out of it: Sleeping Beauty last weekend (which I enjoyed, and which was interesting to revisit after seeing Maleficent), and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in a few weeks from now.
3. As a Doctor Who fan, I've been watching Big Finish's news feed lately to see their various announcements relating to their 15th anniversary as the makers of official Doctor Who audios. As a Doctor Who fan of a certain age, one announcement that caught my eye was the one revealing that they've finished the job of casting all the Doctor's companions from the New Adventures spin-off novels. One of the first things they did when they started making Doctor Who-related audio dramas 15 years ago was cast Lisa Bowerman as Benny Summerfield (because it was easier at first to get permission to make solo adventures for Benny than anything with the Doctor in), and now they've finally got around to casting Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej. The occasion is that they're making an audio adaptation of Damaged Goods, the novel that was Russell T Davies' first official bit of Doctor Who writing, years before he got the job of bringing the TV series back.
4. Yesterday's second most surprising discovery was that the reviled 1990s TV series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation (that's the one which added a token female Turtle to the line-up) was live-action. It makes a sort of sense, since it came out on the heels of the live-action movies, but for the last 17 years I've just been assuming that it was animated, like the beloved Turtles series of my youth and the more recent revival. (Obviously, I've never actually watched any of it.)
5. Yesterday's most surprising discovery was that the author of Sam Tim's Ugly Day was Meicha Maarilex. (Which is doubly surprising, in the sense that the fact that it was a surprise was a surprise, since I made this discovery while reading something that I know for a fact I've read before, and which I remember quite clearly. I even remember that very sentence, except that somehow the author's name didn't register with me the first time I read it.) I wonder if I ought to be embarrassed about the squeaky gleeful noises I made; they're not uncommon, I gather, when discovering an unsuspected new book by a favoured author -- but for a fictional book by a fictional author?
