Some Random Facts

I have now watched War of the Worlds, March of the Penguins and Domino, in that order. Of them all, it was the Penguins that was actually the coolest.

Tomb Raider Legend is shaping up to be a very good game, and a long awaited worthy successor to the original Playstation phenomenon. Since I’m not doing the review for GameAxis, I can post a capsule review of my own thoughts here, which I’ll do once I’ve finished it.

The Wife and I just this rainy afternoon went down to a part of the neighborhood we never suspected held a small gallery of replica arms, including period firearms, blades from actual historical periods, and fantasy weapons which are either of original design, or inspired by various sources, such as The Lord of the Rings. Since the Wife is doing comics and other illustrations now, and since I’m writing Nowhere which involves the use of katanas (That is to say, the traditional blade used by Japanese Samurai) we now have something like this in the house.

I have already chased the cats around with it while muttering things like “YOU HAVE NO HONOR! DIE! HAAAAI!” and “EVIL SHALL PERISH BY MY BLADE!” and it’s more fun that I had suspected. There is something incredibly cool about having a sword in your house…