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[deckardcanine]

I was sick all Monday with a bug that's been going around. Glaceau's vitamin water specializing in focus enhancement didn't work on me. I should have searched for a drug store near the office, but I was probably too feverish to think of that. Good think work was light that day.

When I took Tuesday off to recuperate -- and by that morning I was mostly well -- I felt guilty, as I often have without actual guilt. This is the third week in a row that I didn't spend 40 hours in the office. I'm afraid someone's going to suspect me of grabbing at excuses.

At the risk of relapse into sickness, I watched Plan 9 from Outer Space with my dad. It's certainly a stinker, but after all the hype, might I say that it was a...reverse letdown.

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[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

I knew from Hardy's poetry that he was a miserable soul, and I hear TOTD is a bummer.

After the rather popular Happy Gilmore, the only Sandler movie I might want to see is The Wedding Singer. I hear it's kind of endearing.

I've seen 11 Bond films, including the non-canon NSNA. It's not one of the finer ones, but at least it didn't annoy me like Diamonds are Forever or Live and Let Die. I still want to see Moonraker.

[billis.livejournal.com]

I still want to see Moonraker.

Prepare to be annoyed.

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Heh. I had taken a Bond film selector quiz. It seemed to do a good job, judging from the order of films I had seen. Moonraker was at the top.

But I put more faith in another human than in a program.

[billis.livejournal.com]

If you can see the particular version "science fiction" employed as ironic, it's kind of a spectacle, but somehow "James Bond coolness" and "space laser fights" kind of negate eachother.

I like the James Bond movies for their sense of fun, conversely, I'm always saddened by all the henchmen who meet their presumably-deserved dooms; Moonraker seemed to have more doom and less fun.

Without making it short choppy sentences, what's the correct punctuation for the sentence above?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Well, you can tell from my previous response that I don't mind a series of short(ish) sentences, but I'll help you anyway. The only actual error in your sentence is the first comma, which should be either a semicolon or a period. I would suggest you make it a semicolon and change the other semicolon to a period.

I'm most likely to be bothered by a henchman's death when it's at the hands of someone with whom he has cooperated. Usually that's a villain who no longer has a use for him, but sometimes Bond threatens them with death and then kills them when they comply. Double-O Seven, that is not cricket.

[-fairest.livejournal.com]

The Wedding Singer really is endearing. I own a copy. And now, I'm considering buying a copy of 50 Fist Dates (it is set in Hawaii and I just love Hawaii!)

I've read several of Hardy's novels, but TOTD was my favorite. Hmm...a favorite among sad tales? I think I was more of a sad sack when I read his stuff. He was 75 years ahead of society in terms of his views on relationships. Well, maybe not. Maybe the things he wrote of (men & women living together w/o marriage, women seeking higher education, seduction/rape and illegitimate children) were all happening (duh, of course they were) but scorned by society at the time. In any case, I know I won't be returning to that sort of reading.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is another author I'll never go back to again. I read all of his stuff when I was a teen (including some biographies on him and his wife Zelda) and I determined that he was just a drunken, raving idiot (Zelda's idiocy compounded by mental illness). I bring him up now because one of his titles was The Beautiful and the Damned. In Hardy's stories, the Beautiful are the Damned. *shrug*

So, being through with romantic guck and through with true crime (I can't even finish the one I've been toting around for months now!), I plan to dig deeper into the Bible. A good plan :)

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

If you're thru with romance for a while, hold off on the Song of Songs. :) I used to wonder what a steamy few pages of that was doing in the Bible, but I now get the gist of the metaphor.