Updatery things

Kiva has broken the internetz at my apt complex. The moral of this story is, if you need to get in touch with me, it's probably better to call rather than email, at least until the internetz is fixed.

What else?

I've been working hard on job applications this week. OMG time. I think I need to take some time off though, so if you're up for hanging out, let me know.

I slept very little this past week. I spent Friday recovering. I have since been amusing myself by:

1) Watching Project Runway. (I'm glad the person who won, won, although I loved the 2nd place finisher's dresses. Kenley may have good construction skills, but I've seen better designs from people on this f-list, frankly. Loved that feather wedding dress though.)

2) Meeting new SF writers

3) Watching s1 of Mad Men (so far so good! love the theme music.)

4) Reading the new year's best Fantasy & Horror anthology. I've spotted some familiar names on the Honorable Mentions list (congrats guys!) and was pleased to see "The White Isle" got an intro mention. Now if I can only break in to the actual anthology...

5) Playing Portal. The cake is apparently a lie...

6) Getting around to checking out random linkage. I want the villain chair. Maybe also the terrorist tea cosy. And I like the Taylor the Latte Boy song too.

While I still have internet, here's an entertainment roundup:

Warner Bros. Pictures is planning on turning Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey" into a futuristic space epic reports Variety. Brad Pitt and "Mad Max" helmer George Miller are tied to this new adaptation the property which they hope Pitt will star in and produce while Miller will direct.

Hands off my epic literature! Hands off Mad Max 4! And hands off Bra... No wait. You can have him.

You know who else is making a sci fi movie? Kevin Smith.

Meanwhile, the following sounds like a movie I'd be interested in seeing, even if it does also sound like what happns when someone takes Season 5 of The Wire too far...

Warner Bros. Pictures has acquired John Leake's non-fiction book "Entering Hades" says Variety. The story follows Jack Unterweger, a journalist who led a double life strangling prostitutes in Vienna and Los Angeles, and covering his own crimes in the early 1990s.

In other plots I've kinda seen before on TV: Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci have joined the cast of Plum Pictures psychological thriller "After.Life" says The Hollywood Reporter. Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo's feature debut centers on a young woman (Ricci) caught between life and death. A funeral director (Neeson) appears to have the gift of transitioning the dead, but may be intent on burying her alive.

I bet you anything it also involves pies.