Ho Hum - Typical Sunay Night

Not much going on today. I tried to clean up the house a bit, but anyone who's ever been over to my place knows what a futile thing that is. Other than that, our new roommate took us to Cici's Pizza. A free meal is always welcome, and I love their buffalo chicken pizza. This evening I didn't do much other than do some much-needed updates to Marble Stage's database. It's information I'm going to need for the party I am organizing.

I hate Sunday nights. I always say this, but it's always true. I'm just not willing to give up on my weekend. At least this week I have my birthday to look forward to. Which reminds me: A belated happy birthday to Nicki, and an early happy birthday to Crispy. I believe there are some other birthdays coming up, but I'm forgetting them at the moment. I'm sure it will come up sometime.

I've also got "True Blood" to look forward to this week. It's actually shown at this point, but I don't have that channel anymore, so I'll have to obtain a copy through alternative means. Thanks to my friend Anita, I've read the second book in the series, so I know a bit about what's going to go on, but they don't stick 100% to the books, so there will be plenty of surprises for me. I may pick up the third book in the series. I'm not sure yet. I'm actually in the mood for something "Dresden," but since I've read all of that, it would mean backtracking or getting the graphic novels, and I haven't priced those yet. I've got some "Farscape" comics to catch up on as well, and quite frankly, I've been in the mood for a good ol' HOMOSEXUAL novel. Now, if I could have the best of BOTH worlds - a GOOD sci fi novel with gay themes - I think I'd probably faint. GAY GEEKS UNITE!!!! (Okay, I'm done.)

I've also got a friend in Seattle who has mentioned having me come and visit, but there are many things to be arranged in something like that, and as you probably know, dear reader, I am not much of a traveler. Still, it could be nice.

Anyway, that's a brief update. Sort of.

Yeah.

Star Trek

It may very well be that I'm the last person on Earth to have seen the latest "Star Trek" movie.

So why didn't someone warn me it would SUCK?!?!?

What sucks most is that it would have been a good movie if it hadn't been a "Star Trek" movie. The effects and sets were true enough to the old series yet modern enough to be impressive. The characters were good, though I didn't think they were very true to the original characters. Spock was way too emotional, Uhura was way too slutty, and Kirk was never that cool. I've heard that McCoy was the worst, but of everyone, I enjoyed him the most. Chekov and Sulu were okay, but McCoy was definitely my favorite. I thought he was the one who stayed most true to the original series.

The major problem I had with the movie, though, was that they completely departed from the original series - ALL OF THEM. Spock's mother appears in "Next Generation," not to mention the whole planet of Vulcan. They've gone and nullified three series and every other movie that was made, and I think that's so disrespectful of all of the people who worked on those stories and series and movies.

When a series has been going on as long as "Star Trek" has, you just don't do stuff like that.

I'm not a big fan of the old series, but I really found this movie insulting to all of that.

There's my two cents.