Old Dragons Lose Their Teeth

Dragons don't scare me anymore. At least not the old ones that I'm seeing again. These figures used to be titanic gods that trembled the very ground that they proudly walked upon. Their utterances were received as blessings from on high. A glance would smite the undeserving.

Get the gist?

Not anymore. Now they are just embittered old fools. Rehashing outdated concepts and applying a new veneer to old crap. Cackling to the old used jokes.

Perhaps I've become disillusioned to the process. Perhaps these dragons should still be worshiped. Perhaps I should stop complaining and accept my fate linked to these beasts.

Beasts of burden now. Old dragons lose their teeth.

I should weep for them. But I don't care anymore. Just give me a fucking A.

Ethics

I laughed so hard after reading this Girl Genius. The final panel did it for me. No wonder I enjoy the company of cats so much.

Cookie coma

Wow these cookies are good...

And since I care about everyone else, here's the recipe off the back of the butterscotch chips.

Oatmeal Scotchies
1 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup butter
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract of grated peel of 1 orange
3 cups quick of old-fashioned oats
1 2/3 cups (11 oz pkg) nestle toll house butterscotch flavored morsels

Preheat oven to 375

Combine flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in small bowl. Beat butter, granulated suger, brown sugar, eggs and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Stir in oats and morsels. Drop by rounded tablespoon onto ungreased baking sheets.

Bake for 7 to 8 minutes for chewy cookies; 9 to 10 minutes for crisp cookies. Cool on baking sheets for 2 minutes; remove to wire racks to cool completely.

Makes about 4 dozen cookies (that you will really enjoy).

Dead in here

Think I just saw a tumbleweed.

I hope to start posting entries soon. School is on week 9, 11 weeks per quarter, so things are kinda moving along now.

Tivo and TCM have been nice to me lately, there was a Sean Connery marathon. So I was able to watch a bunch of his older work while I was drawing/shading: Shalako, The Great Train Robbery, A Fine Madness, The Wind and the Lion, and others.

That's all I have for now. Back to the grind. I'll write more later.

Movie Review 01

I hate reviews, let me just say that. I can't write them either because, well, I don't want to sound like a pretentious douche bag. So let's get to it.

Night Watch turned out to be almost as good as I was hoping it would be. And if I ever can locate a copy of it in town, I'll probably buy it, though I might just order all 3 books (Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch) from amazon and be done with it. My only complaint with the movie was the dubbing being off a couple of times. So if you can find a version with Russian language track and English subtitles, go for that. Or just torrent a subbed one. Otherwise, I really enjoyed it.

Perfect Creature looked promising, but then I watched it. Watched the whole thing. Wish I hadn't. I don't know quite what I was expecting from the movie, since it had vampires protecting society. I think I was hoping for another Equilibrium, but it wasn't. It was crap. Please avoid this movie. I could go on as to why you should, but I'm not going to. Just save yourself that slice of time and do something worthwhile instead. Maybe grow a cactus. Something like that.

Children of Men was very good. Really wish I had seen this movie in the theater. Watching it at home was great too, I wasn't missing out on anything by not seeing it in the theater. Sometimes things just deserve to be bigger, and this is a big movie in scope. I actually had decent thoughts about my fellow humanity after watching this movie. Until I went to class the next day and was forced to deal with putzes. Oh well, good will lasted for eight hours or so, what more can you hope for.

Arrested Development: Season 2

Well, the three discs that comprise Arrested Development: Season 2 arrived yesterday. I held off watching them until today, where I did them all in one sitting...

As outlandish as the characters are, they are also some of the most human that I've seen on tv in a long time. Of course, most of my favorite shows have a sci-fi/action bent to them, so I can't voice much on "human" characters.

There's just one more season to watch and it's only two discs long. So I'm kinda bummed about that, but am still really looking forward to completing the series. Which I suspect I'll do in another sitting.

Yeah, I need help.

Then my netflix queue goes back to anime. Might need to rethink that. Spend some more time exploring tv shows that I meant to watch but never got around to.

Netflix movies!

There are three movies on their way to my mailbox for this Tuesday: Children of Men, Night Watch, and Perfect Creature. Needless to say I'm looking forward to watching them all.

Really wanted to see Children of Men when it hit the theater, but I never made it. I've heard great things about Night Watch from my friends who bit torrented it prior to the US theatrical release. The trailers for Night Watch, Perfect Creature, and the upcoming Day Watch, sold me on at least wanting to watch the movies.

Here's what I know so far about the movies:

• Children of Men, somehow nobody can have children anymore. Interesting.
• Night Watch, the struggle between Good and Evil in Russia. More interesting.
• Perfect Creature, vampires are humanity's protectors, then one goes rogue and munches on flu victims. I was mostly sold by the visuals and vampires. I loves me some vampires.

If I like Night Watch, I'll probably end up buying the three books: Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch. I've heard good things about them all. We'll see if the screen adaptation of the novel is compelling enough to sell me the book.