Status report

[robotech_master]

I'm ensconced in the medical study center at BioKinetics, with my computer on a table, listening to tunes via noise cancelling earphones and doing my best to ignore the movie Running Scared that's showing on the bigscreen TV. I've just finished owning the TV for three movies in a row, so it's really time someone else had a chance anyway. Early this afternoon, when most of the study participants were napping due to the too-short length of time between lights-out and lights-on, I threw Transformers: The Movie (the animated one) in, and a couple people watched and seemed to enjoy it. Then, since most everyone was still napping and nobody else wanted to bogart the set, I threw in Big Trouble in Little China. After that, I took a chance and threw in The Accidental Spy. I was a little surprised at how well it went over—in fact, during dinner, when someone tried to take it out and put another movie in, a couple of the other people who were watching it protested and got it put back in.

I've been kind of lax at updating this thing lately. You know how it is, you just kind of get out of the habit of writing and suddenly you can't force yourself to write to save your life. It's pointless to try to update everything that's gone on, so I'll just touch on high points of the last couple weeks.

A week ago tomorrow, I went to the Moxie and watched American Scary, a documentary film my friend Sandy Clark made (well, co-made anyway) about America's late-night horror movie hosts. It was quite interesting, and I briefly got to meet Sandy's friend Lowell Cunningham, the author of the original comic book series Men in Black that got turned into the movies and cartoons of the same name. It was an interesting experience, and I learned a number of things about horror movie hosts that I hadn't known before. I highly recommend seeing the movie when and if you have any way to do so.

This last week has seen a slightly startling surge of activity on the Superguy Mailing List, which had been all but dead until a couple of people posted things at once, leading other people to succumb to the temptation to post things themselves, and others to follow, and so on. There's even been some talk on the associated chat lists of creating some updated websites to make the list easier to access for new readers, and doing other things like that, and a livejournal community, superguy_list, has been set up. I'll have to wait and see how well it all shakes out. My great fear is that it'll just be a passing phase for people and the list will die back to its former dead state within a few weeks. I've got an arc of my own to be working on, probably got it about halfway done already before I lost interest. Now I have to pick up the threads again and see how far I can take them. I want to get it completed before I post any of it, for fear that I might end up leaving it unfinished.

Last night, after I got to the study center, I did an episode of my podcast, Space Station Liberty, and Sandy showed up. We talked about the impending writer strike, and about his original introduction to Robotech, and things like that; a good time was had by all. I've already described the movie situation today. Tomorrow, after I try another show in the morning to see if I get any more participants, Sandy will come by during the afternoon and we'll go shopping for bookshelves. I want to see if I can make my room a bit neater through having more space in which to keep books and things.

And that's about all I feel up to writing for this journal entry. Maybe in another one, I'll talk about my plans for getting a new computer sometime soon—or at least most of one.

Comments

[thandrak.livejournal.com]

Hey, you told Kobold about this movie thing? He likes this sort of thing, you know, does the comic about 'em and all.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Who?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

kobold, aka Nee, aka Randy Milholland.

[dramaticblunder.livejournal.com]

Are you by chance there at BioKinetics with a guy named Nathan? I'm not sure how small the study is and how well you will have gotten to know the other participants...but I'm having an "It's a small world" moment.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

I suck at remembering (or getting) people's names. You'd do better to ask Nathan if he was in a study with me. He'd probably recognize me even by description ("the guy who brought his own computer, and who showed 'Transformers: The Movie' and a Jackie Chan film on the TV") if so.

Of course, there are four separate dormitories, so it's only a one in four chance I was in the same one with him. But it's possible.

[dramaticblunder.livejournal.com]

Just curious. I don't really talk to Nathan...in fact, my girlfriends and I are all pissed at him right now because he chose to do the study instead of come to his sister's wedding.