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Mar. 16th, 2011 10:12 amI was away for four days, and not in much yesterday either. Has anything happened? Other than the nuclear disaster in Japan that I didn't know about till Sunday, because of excessive SF convention work during the weekend.
It was just a one-day event but quite a lot of work all the same. 20 ppl showed up to be turkified. We served turkey, watched turkey movies (oh boy were they bad), even had a turkey mascot. Only one person vomited in the bathrooms. And we concluded that the core of a future galactic empire probably won't be the EU but rather IKEA -- based on the flatpack rocketship Gordon.
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I've just re-watched the 1987 "Little Dorrit" which I first saw at the Film Festival here all those years ago. It was awesome then, and it still is today, despite very iffy sound and no subtitling. The sets, the clothes, the milling humanity! No, not humanity, they're all very much individuals, living whole lives in the background, which every so often becomes the foreground. And above all, Alec Guinness. Absolutely wonderful! I was quite disappointed with the new version because Mr Dorrit was nothing like Guinness' marvellous creation.
Next: "Frankenstein". Thrilling!
It was just a one-day event but quite a lot of work all the same. 20 ppl showed up to be turkified. We served turkey, watched turkey movies (oh boy were they bad), even had a turkey mascot. Only one person vomited in the bathrooms. And we concluded that the core of a future galactic empire probably won't be the EU but rather IKEA -- based on the flatpack rocketship Gordon.
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I've just re-watched the 1987 "Little Dorrit" which I first saw at the Film Festival here all those years ago. It was awesome then, and it still is today, despite very iffy sound and no subtitling. The sets, the clothes, the milling humanity! No, not humanity, they're all very much individuals, living whole lives in the background, which every so often becomes the foreground. And above all, Alec Guinness. Absolutely wonderful! I was quite disappointed with the new version because Mr Dorrit was nothing like Guinness' marvellous creation.
Next: "Frankenstein". Thrilling!
