Quick rec and a question

[trinityvixen]

For ivy03, jethrien, anomilygrace, and any other Hornblower fans: a fantastic entry about Archie Kennedy at the 1character challenge. It reads well for both period and character, and makes me absolutely ache for Archie (not because of any one line, but just, you know, in general).

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For everyone Would anyone want to play dodgeball?

I've been thinking about what to do for my belated birthday festivities. I would love to go out to dinner with all and sundry, per the usual, but I was thinking about what group activity to do, and I came up with dodgeball. I haven't played it in years--years!--and I figure, hey, why not? I know a basketball court or two we might take over in Riverside Park, and I can pick up a few red balls. All I need are some players!

Athletic skillz are not required--I'm probably in the worst shape of my life (I'm the reverse Bo-flex guy!), but I'm going to play if people are interested. The only rules I'll impose are upon some of the stronger folk to ask that they be very careful about tossing balls at people.

What say ye lj folk? I was thinking I might do it the weekend of the May Movie, so May 6th? (Exactly one month from my birthday, so yay relevance!)

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I cannot believe it's two weeks to the annual MAY MOVIE outing and I haven't so much as pestered one person about it. I've talked to theKathy and xannoside about the movie choice, but otherwise, not so much.

Oh, the MAY MOVIE this year will be Mission: Impossible III. Yes, I am as sick to death of Tom Cruise as the rest of you, but the Mission: Impossible movies have always been sorta fun in spite of him. I liked the first one a lot as a good crazy mystery/action thriller, and the second one is always good for Dougray Scott constantly mocking Tom Cruise--oh, excuse me, Tom Cruise's character ::cough cough'Ethan'sstupidtendencytogrinallthedamntimecough cough::--if nothing else.

If you've no interest, I understand, but I'm not going to pester this year. I'll just invite who'd like to go for the fun of it, who'll come for the friends involved, and who might want to chill at a cafe/diner afterward.

Come on, it can't be worse than Van Helsing. That one actually made feiran cry, it was so bad. And some of us still had a good time because when it's that bad, it's that good as fodder.

Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Gah. I may actually skip the MM this year, if it's THAT.

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

As long as we're talking horrible movies that shouldn't have been made, let's go see DaVinci Code, with the intent to openly and loudly mock it on opening night.

That would be more fun than watching an arthritic midget play spy.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

The book shouldn't have been written, or at least it shouldn't have become as popular as it is. The movie looks perfectly serviceable. The plot and pacing lend itself well to a film, so it will probably be good--and if the screenwriter did his job, it should be better than the book. Because how could it not be? Tom Hanks can usually make any movie just a little bit better.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

And I hope you were just kidding about openly mocking it in the theater, because if you want to do that, you should just stay at home and wait for the DVD...

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

watching an arthritic midget play spy.

If you were trying to convince me not to see MI:3, you undid your effort there with that sentence. That sounds awesome for the hilarity.

Plus, I'm still meh to The Da Vinci Code, book or movie. I've heard some of what the book entails and I'm sorta not pleased at the concepts. It offends part of what's left of my faith, and I just don't feel like indulging it. Also, ho-hum, another "the Catholics are really run by a secret society that's possibly eeeeeeevil or hiding a biiiiiiiig seeeeeecret" plot. Oh yeah, haven't seen that before...