Wordplay, baking, ficcing

[wordplay]

I woke up in a FOUL mood today, ready to lose my patience at the slightest provocation. That's no fun, is it? M. took the kids and got the hell out of the house, a wise move on his part I feel, and I've baked cookies and biscuits and may well go for bread here in a little bit - baking always helps calm me down.

Last night I went to see Wordplay with ellen_fremedon because, as she said, this was one movie that I of all people needed to see. My favorite puzzler and yours, jiggery_pokery, clued me in months and months ago that this was coming, but it's still been odd seeing my username-only-not pop up all over LJ and it gives me pause every time. I've only had this name since October, and it's surprising how personally identified I am with it. Anyway, I VERY much enjoyed the movie, and we agreed that in many ways it captures the feel of fandom (particularly the warmth of conspace) better than many others. She's also a fan of "Galaxy Quest", but I saw it prefandom and my memory is that it's unduly harsh on fannishness, so now that's up for reviewing in our household. And, you know, it's absolutely not coincidence that I came home and bought a subscription to the NYT crossword online - the movie is very well put together and they put a considerable amount of thought into how best to make watching people do crossword puzzles interesting. Definitely recommend, especially for fannish types. Good music, too. (And! kaalee! There's a bit of footage of an Indigo Girls concert and Ty and Doris are playing with them and I was very OMG GIRLYMAN!!! It was such a happy surprise to see them!)

The one other little bit of news that has cheered me right up and made me feel really all warm & fuzzy inside is that someone contacted me to ask if she could do commentary for my Weir/Zelenka story for seperis's DVD commentary challenge thingy. I have such insecurity about fanwriting (so see, I am one of those delicate flowers who would be easily crushed - in fact, I AM one of those delicate flowers who WAS crushed by H/D) and the idea that somebody liked something I wrote enough that they wanted to think about it more than once is just immensely flattering. It's doing a great job toward lifting my mood, at any rate. :D

I rented the first bit of "Slings & Arrows" and hope to watch that this weekend. I have a lot of reading to do and my family is calling a couple of times per day so I can give baby advice and I'm trying not to think about the job situation and yeah, it's all a very lowkey kind of busy. VA is having their tax-free weekend, so we may brave back to school shopping. And here's something else to think about - there's a "Superpower" challenge over at sga_flashfic, and I'm thinking about writing from a "oh, I wish I had X superpower" perspective. The problem is that every desire to have a superpower ends up coming out a little bit creepy and I'm finding it hard to write about without feeling like, wow, Zelenka isn't really this much of a little creep, is he? And yet it doesn't FEEL creepy when we're playing "which superpower would you have" over ice cream. (Just totally geeky, which is way different. :D) Is that a matter of perspective, or do you think that wishing to have a superpower, wishing for just that much more of an unfair edge over everybody else, is always kinda creepy?

Comments

[vertigo66.livejournal.com]

I thought Galaxy Quest made fun of fandom a little, but mostly good-naturedly. Far more good-natured than Shatner's "Get A Life" speech a few years back. I loved it a lot but I'm actually coming from Star Trek fandom so I know there's a ton of stuff to make fun of there! ;)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think people know that advantages are disadvantages.

I don't see a music meme here. *taps foot*

About these sorts of things I, too, am a delicate flower.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I am doing the Saturday crossword RIGHT NOW. (And have been, on and off, since 11-- it's a toughie. One of Trip Payne's.)

movie star fanboy usericon

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind your recent comments about fandom and movie-based fandoms, would it be too, too freaky if I were to point you to rpipuzzleguy (and dankatz) who posts about having been in the movie, attending the Sundance festival and so on?

Glad you enjoyed it and I dearly look forward to seeing it myself! I read the book based on the movie last time I was in the US - fun reading, but I'm sure it'll be more fun once I've seen the film... :-)

[sundancekid.livejournal.com]

I think Galaxy Quest is equally hard on actors who don't appreciate that fans mean they have jobs, and in the end, the fans are crucial to saving the day. It's pretty cute, and it has Enrico Colatoni, so, you know, not a total waste of time.

[didi75.livejournal.com]

I think of you every time I see an advertisement for Wordplay. I want to see it, but it's in a long line of movies that I also want to see.

You are so awesome with the baking. I wish I had a big kitchen and shiny appliances so I could bake with glee!

[locumtenens.livejournal.com]

I've only had this name since October, and it's surprising how personally identified I am with it.

Hee. Monkey has one of those Leap Frog Touch Pad books. And whenever I turn it on it says, "Level Two: WordPlay", and I always think of you!

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

eeeee!! really?? girlyman with the indigo girls. *happy sigh*

plus. I wanted to see it anyway.

*lovelove*

[momma-geek.livejournal.com]

And this site makes me think of you.