I Left My Heart in World Eight
Feb. 15th, 2015 02:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatHow was everyone's Valentine's Day? Mine was mostly uneventful, but ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bethje and I did go out to eat at a fancy romantic restaurant. Well, the restaurant part is true, anyway. I'm really not that good at the romance thing. We ate at the Denny's in Manhattan, near the Brooklyn Bridge. It's still fairly new, and different from other Denny's in that it has a liquor license and a bar. There's some deal you can have where you get two Grand Slams and an expensive bottle of wine, or something like that. We didn't get any alcohol, but it's weird to even see it available. For that matter, New York is the first state I've lived in where they sold beer and wine at grocery stores. Anyway, I like Denny's, but sometimes I wish they had a regular system for substitutions. I've had several waiters who were willing to give me a fruit cup instead of hash browns, while the waitress today originally wasn't going to let me have anything else but then said I could have French fries. Not that I blame her, as I'd probably have said the same thing in her situation. As it turned out, I ended up getting both French fries AND hash browns, and I didn't finish either of them. I had plenty to eat with blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon, however. I'm just not really big on potatoes, you know?
I gave Beth a subscription to Serial Killer Quarterly, which she'd asked for. She used to be really easy to shop for, but since she rarely listens to music or plays video games anymore and has a huge backlog of books already, I'm kind of running out of ideas. And our anniversary is coming up, too. She gave me the last two Koopalings, Larry and Lemmy. Well, okay, I don't have Bowser Jr., but he's not one of the original seven. The two I received most recently were purchased online instead of at Nintendo World, but I think they're part of the same set. It's hard to tell, because they're two of the smallest ones anyway. I have them all up on my bookshelf along with their father, although with the angle you can't really see much of dear old Dad except for his mouth.
Fifty Shades of Grey is cleaning up at the box office, but does it really have any competition? I had considered seeing the last Hobbit movie at the theater, but I must have missed it. I actually still haven't seen the extended editions of either of the first two. It's weird, because I think they're more than long enough as it is, yet I want to see what other elements of this world have been filmed. Even if The Battle of Five Armies were still in theaters, though, I doubt it would be attracting the same audiences. Or would it?
Beth saw somewhere on the Internet a question about whether Fifty Shades could be considered escapist entertainment, and hence not as harmful as critics claim. How many people actually see it that way, though? It seems to me the reactions are all either "it's terrible" or "I want my own Christian Grey!", with no middle ground. I've heard of people reading the series' antecedent Twilight and enjoying it while still realizing that the relationship portrayed was not a healthy or desirable one and the characters weren't all that likeable. Is that the case for anyone with this repurposed Twilight fanfiction?
bethje and I did go out to eat at a fancy romantic restaurant. Well, the restaurant part is true, anyway. I'm really not that good at the romance thing. We ate at the Denny's in Manhattan, near the Brooklyn Bridge. It's still fairly new, and different from other Denny's in that it has a liquor license and a bar. There's some deal you can have where you get two Grand Slams and an expensive bottle of wine, or something like that. We didn't get any alcohol, but it's weird to even see it available. For that matter, New York is the first state I've lived in where they sold beer and wine at grocery stores. Anyway, I like Denny's, but sometimes I wish they had a regular system for substitutions. I've had several waiters who were willing to give me a fruit cup instead of hash browns, while the waitress today originally wasn't going to let me have anything else but then said I could have French fries. Not that I blame her, as I'd probably have said the same thing in her situation. As it turned out, I ended up getting both French fries AND hash browns, and I didn't finish either of them. I had plenty to eat with blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, and bacon, however. I'm just not really big on potatoes, you know?I gave Beth a subscription to Serial Killer Quarterly, which she'd asked for. She used to be really easy to shop for, but since she rarely listens to music or plays video games anymore and has a huge backlog of books already, I'm kind of running out of ideas. And our anniversary is coming up, too. She gave me the last two Koopalings, Larry and Lemmy. Well, okay, I don't have Bowser Jr., but he's not one of the original seven. The two I received most recently were purchased online instead of at Nintendo World, but I think they're part of the same set. It's hard to tell, because they're two of the smallest ones anyway. I have them all up on my bookshelf along with their father, although with the angle you can't really see much of dear old Dad except for his mouth.
Fifty Shades of Grey is cleaning up at the box office, but does it really have any competition? I had considered seeing the last Hobbit movie at the theater, but I must have missed it. I actually still haven't seen the extended editions of either of the first two. It's weird, because I think they're more than long enough as it is, yet I want to see what other elements of this world have been filmed. Even if The Battle of Five Armies were still in theaters, though, I doubt it would be attracting the same audiences. Or would it?
Beth saw somewhere on the Internet a question about whether Fifty Shades could be considered escapist entertainment, and hence not as harmful as critics claim. How many people actually see it that way, though? It seems to me the reactions are all either "it's terrible" or "I want my own Christian Grey!", with no middle ground. I've heard of people reading the series' antecedent Twilight and enjoying it while still realizing that the relationship portrayed was not a healthy or desirable one and the characters weren't all that likeable. Is that the case for anyone with this repurposed Twilight fanfiction?
