Trying to blog in summertime, especially with weather that entices a person outdoors, is difficult. Winters around here are long and cold. Huddling by the computer, appreciating the warm air its fan exhausts on my feet, works much better for me. Today, it's windy and cloudy and damp from all the rain of the past few days so indoors at the computer works for me. As a matter of fact, it's a very Irish sort of a day.
In the meantime, though, I haven't quit reading, nor watching tv or dvd's. As a matter of fact MCFLS came through with the 2nd season of Torchwood and the 4th of Doctor Who. Just before that I watched the 3 seasons of a marvelous Canadian series called Slings and Arrows which starred Paul Gross. Seeing an older, but still gorgeous, Paul Gross reminded me of one the funniest and most charming (sounds like an oxymoron, but if you haven't seen it, please do) police procedurals ever made - Due South. MCFLS has the complete televised series so I borrowed the set of Season One. Alas, it contained way more episodes than I could watch in a week, so back it wait and I'm on the waiting list to borrow it again.
I'm finally seeing Lord of the Rings in the Special Extended DVD Edition. I resisted seeing the movie in the theaters -- 90 minutes is about my limit to sit in a seat in a large roomful of strangers. It's nice watching it at home where pause and scan back are options when I miss something on the first viewing. My spouse and son, both of whom saw the trilogy in the initial theatrical releases, are very knowledgeable about the Tolkien universe, not to mention the Peter Jackson version of that universe, so I can ask questions.
One of my friends in high school introduced our little group of friends to The Hobbit freshman year. Our homeroom was in the Physics Lab and we sat in the last row, behind taller classmates. Back there we passed books, notes and low-voiced comments along our row of seats (actually they were more like bar stools.) I waited my turn to read The Hobbit and, as soon as I was finished, I gathered together my baby-sitting money and allowance for doing chores at home and headed off to the nearest bookstore on one of the cross-streets off Broad St. and bought the trilogy. Wish I could remember the name of the bookstore but I do remember it was cozy, had a big picture window, and a small rental library of bestsellers, in addition to books on shelves from floor to ceiling. Next to the Eisner Memorial Library and the big record store on Broad, it was my favorite hangout during h.s. years.
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