Are we still on for this Saturday, the 6th? I believe Oxy and Billdo said they’d like to join us, and Oxy promised he can actually lead y’all out to the Wilds of New Jersey—though I of couse will be happy to come ingto the city and pick you up.
Any other Dopers up for a day of admiring my lovely apartment and making fun of my housekeeping (cat-fur dust bunnies the size of Pam Grier’s afro)? We’ll have lunch at an actual 1930s railroad-car diner a few blocks for my apt., and I can introduce you to The Loveliest Gal in the Graveyard (they put photos on the tombstones in these here parts).
Sounds good, and I’m bringing the Spare Computer Of Eve, because I have one I built in my spare time. If we need it, then we have it. If we don’t need it… then it goes home and returns to being Spare Computer That I Load Random Operating Systems On, when Exceedingly Bored.
(Current stats: Office XP, WinXP, Norton 2003, all patched and updated. Athlon 750, 128 megs of ram (The 256 chip appears to be dead.), 3Com nic, Aopen modem, 20 gb hard drive, generic video card. May be a GeForce2 MX, I’d have to check. I think it’s just generic, though.)
Things that I must do in the city: Make quick dashes past Compleat Strategist, my gaming store, the comic book store opposite the Empire State Building, and a wander into the import anime store down on 27th to see if a model or two came in. Can be accomplished before or after we link up.
After that, maybe three hours of good computer time to fix everything, provided it is fixable. If it is not fixable, then Gort shall be emplaced and the Toshiba shall go off to the shop. Yes, I named it Gort. It’s a good name.
Hm. Well, we’re going to be spending a lot of time sitting around on our collective bums, aren’t we?
So… Sabbath Goes To The Movies!
Let’s see. Eve, do you have a DVD player besides the one in the computer, or shall I be bringing my PS2 along?
There’s two or three ways that I can contribute to it… for one, how many people have seen a good old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serial, or Things to Come?
Secondly, I’m highly tempted to see what Eve thinks of something a bit more modern. It’s a hard-boiled tale, of two PIs. One’s an ex-cop, fired because of the case where he was right about the crook… and wrong about the politics. Gruff and experienced, he’s seen it all. The other’s a man of means by no means, a drifter with a mysterious background, a laid-back attitude, and a mean left hook.
There’s a dame. Always, there’s a dame. She’s got a body for sin and an eye for vengance, she’d kill you as soon as kiss you. And that’s what she does when she meets our heroes later.
There’s a kid. And a dog. But they don’t take over the story too much, and they do serve to move things along more than just be cute.
The visuals are amazing, the sound even more so. And the music would have won grammys. If, of course, it was american.
DVDs? Those are men’s underwear, yes? I’m afraid all I have is my old VCR-ola. Lots and lots of videos, though, including the naughty 1903 Airy Fairy Lillian Tries On Her New Corsets.
