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Mediawitterings

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K and I watched The Woman in Black on Friday night–it was creepy, decently written and just a bit tame, I thought. The effect of some of the visuals would have been more intense in a theater. Daniel Radcliffe was quite good as an all-grown-up mopey human, and it was nice to see Ciaran Hinds too, the more so because I am loving him in the mini-series Political Animals. (He’s Bill Clinton, basically, complete with southern U.S. accent. It’s riveting.)

Has anyone seen the new Bourne film? Don’t spoil me, but I’d love to know if you thought it was any good.

In unrelated news, I really want to go back to Sicily today, and maybe wander the markets in Palermo.
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Telewitterings – Lewis, Season Six

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I am pretty much devoted to the crimefighting duo of Lewis and Hathaway, so the fact that their new season totally snuck up on me is something of a boggler. It also reflects the fact that despite my unending devotion, the scripts on the last series of new Lewis episodes had serious deficits in the areas of sense, character development, storytelling or even coherence.

They still had Laurence Fox, a.k.a. Mr. Rose Tyler–so don’t get me wrong. I watched them, oh yes, I did. Every blithering, nonsensical frame.

Anyway, I was pleasantly surprised when Series VI opened with a mystery that while, okay, a little grandiose and yes, too, not so big on series continuity in that over the summer James has become even more of a girlphobic horny dork. Will this be the year we get a whole season of not bad out of these scripts? I’ll know more tonight.

New Squid Story, My Favorite Bit, and a Buffy rewatch!

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Today my story “The Sweet Spot” is live at Lightspeed Magazine. I hope you enjoy it, and the rest of the issue, too.

I am also the featured My Favorite Bit author at Mary Robinette Kowal‘s blog today. What does that mean? Basically, it means I talk a little about my love for the much-beleaguered Juanita Corazon of Blue Magic.

The Buffy rewatch this week covers “Bad Girls” and “Consequences.” It’s called: Want. Take. Have. Pay. Pay. Pay.

She’s got personal (post) ity

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Bird Nerd Report! I was very excited when I saw an owl this week in Strathcona. It wasn’t wild and I didn’t have my camera, hence the lack of picture. In fact, some biologists from SFU were using a tethered owl to try to lure down a Cooper’s Hawk whose blood they wanted to take.

In other bird nerdage, I reported a local convenience store to the Humane Society because they are selling local wild birds in friggin’ cages. At least, I’m pretty sure finches and twohees don’t come in domesticated varieties.

My corner of East Vancouver had a power outage on Monday night, when we were three quarters of the way through the penultimate episode of a dour little crime drama called The Killing. So little happens in an episode of The Killing and it all happens so very grimly that we usually have to pair it with an episode of Leverage, a program which nobody, I suspect, will ever accuse of taking itself seriously.

We call this recurring Killing/Leverage TV Event at Chez Dua “The Stupid Double Feature.”

I would also like to point out that wherever you are, Anathema, it’s almost certainly your turn to make a Scrabble move. Although I’m having trouble getting our game to load, so maybe I’m wrong about that.