Today’s post is at Romancing the Blog. Go read it. It’s not as dirty as my last one, but still fun.
In other news, Lancelot the Laptop and I had a tearful, intimate reunion on Friday night. Very intense. I have pictures. (Not pictures I’d put on the internet…) Just kidding, Sailor Boy. You know I love you best.
I attended an RWA chapter meeting, did some reading (more on that later), and had a movie night with Max, who, to my horror, admitted she’d never seen The Matrix. we remedied that situation ASAP. I think that there might be a certain statute of limitations on clasic film. After a while it’s so ripped-off that the viewer doesn’t have the correct responses. It’s like when I showed Casablanca to Sailor Boy and he made all those comments like, “he’s standing there, at the train station, in the rain, waiting for her? That’s so cliche” and “Wow, did he really just say, ‘Here’s looking at you, kid?’”
Urgh. That’s why it’s a cliche, meathead.
Sunday night I went to a dinner party, where I was inexplicably drawn into a conversation about theology with a girl I’d just met. Everyone else was talking about Firefly and prostitution. Why does this always happen to me at dinner parties? Then they watched Grey’s Anatomy with the same amount of enthusiasm and audience feedback as Monday Night Football. I haven’t really seen that show except for the pilot, so I didn’t have a clue what was going on, except for one of the characters was really mean and had sex with this sweet, cute, (doctor!) guy who was in love with her and broke his little heart. Everyone both in the show and in the room with me seemed to think this was a bitch move on her part. Inclined to agree. They also might be the best looking hospital staff I’ve ever seen. Like, even prettier than E.R. Well, maybe not George Clooney E.R., but any E.R. that doesn’t have George Clooney. Patrick Dempsey, in particular, just keeps getting better with age.
I’ve only seen a few episodes of House, but I did appreciate the fact that House actually came out and said that his crack team of genius scientists were way too hot to be working there. Honesty in TV Land is a good thing.
February 27th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Diana - I feel your pain. I hate it when I get stuck at a dinner party having a boring conversation when there are other - much better - conversations going on around me. I hate it even more when I’m actively listening to one of those better conversations and someone thinks that because I’m quiet I need engaging and thus forces me into a boring conversation.
February 27th, 2006 at 10:40 am
Oh, it wasn’t boring! It was fascinating! I just didn’t ken how I’d gotten into deep topics on a Sunday night. (Neither did the other girl, to be fair. We were like… um, let’s talk about Buffy instead!)
February 27th, 2006 at 10:42 am
I haven’t seen Grey’s Anatomy yet, but hear all the raves about it. I very much agree about Patrick Dempsey, though. I watched a lot of his teen movies as a kid. My teen heart wasn’t attracted, then whoa, what happens later in life?
And that page break thing you mentioned on the YA loop? Makes my life so much easier. ;D
February 27th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Diana - so glad it was fascinating. I don’t know why I assumed it would be boring. I absolutely love the deep topics! However, I live in the South and find that often talking religion is more akin to the person sitting opposite me trying to “save me” and hearing nothing of what I say (I often feel the same way when talking politics). I have no problem talking to someone with a different POV, just don’t like it when they won’t listen to *my* POV.
(btw, funny that you use the word ‘ken.’ For weeks after reading a Gabaldon book I’m constantly using that word.)
February 27th, 2006 at 11:08 am
I’m in DC. It’s all politics, religion and politics, science and politics, science AND religion AND politics, popular culture and politics, and Panda bears.
Never read gabaldon. Don’t know if I should admit that in the hearing of Bantam Dell.
February 27th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Great to see you this weekend girlfriend! Glad to know that Lancelot is well. And yeah, I’m with you on THE MATRIX. It’s on my Top Three Movies To Watch Over and Over If Stranded On a Desert Island With a DVD Player.
February 27th, 2006 at 5:51 pm
Having worked in health care and rehab hospitals for years- allow me to echo your comment that no one that good looking actually works in this field. If they were that good looking they would be models or actors. Now, if they had their skirt tucked into their pantyhose and were too tired to notice, had bad cafeteria food stuck in their teeth or a pencil jammed in their hair they had forgotten- then I could believe it.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Eek, politics makes for the most boring topic. Even if you can rant about it without offending half of the party. Or maybe offending them could add a bit fun.
If you´can be sure you’ll never meet the lot again. *grin*
Interesting post about sequels. I hope I’ll never get to write one, it’s not the way I develop my characters. They have their interesting arch in one book, and a sequel would only be a repetition.
But then, I’ve the bad habit of killing some MC off, that should save me from sequels. *evil grin*
February 27th, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Your discussion about sequels, specifically the fact that most romance sequels don’t “start” the same couple as the first book, fascinated me. I didn’t know that.
I don’t write romance, and I can only name three romances novels I’ve read in the last decade (all three in the last three months), and I had no idea about that. All my ideas are for series. And they’re all much heavier on suspense/mystery than on romance, so I never have to worry about repeating the love story arc in two different books.
Now I finally understand what my friends (romance writers, all) meant about having the “best friend” star in the sequel. For the longest time, that made no sense at all to me.
Thanks.