I have no idea what I'm doing - but I'm shooting stuff, and that's what counts!

[alexsarll]

It's amazing how much more productive time spent on computer games feels now the technology's so much better. The social element definitely helps too, but I genuinely feel that an evening spent machinegunning giant insects and doing deeply suggestive violence as Venom was an evening spent well.

Have also finished the second season of The Wire, about which I hesitate to say more than: Wow. In part because I know some of my readers will be watching it soon, but also because I know that once I start I'll never stop, and given how much praise the series has already had from pretty much everyone, I'm bound to be repeating someone. So I'll confine myself to this - like Shakespeare, such elements of genre convention as The Wire does use, it uses so well that they almost make one forgive the existence of the rest of the genre simply because it culminates here, and that justifies everything. (And, to offer a rare criticism of Google, if you image search Omar American Dream it pulls up loads of American Dream stuff with no Omar component whatsoever, and no sign of him in that perfect top.

This morning I thought I saw a monkey in a tree, but it was just a pigeon sat near a flower, with a wind-caught branch serving as the tail.

Comments

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes! I can certainly believe that; it's a habit I'd more or less lost until earlier this year, but like all one's old ways, all you need is the push and you learn that the know-how and the impulse is only lurking, not gone.