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Another lazy day...

Was too apathetic to get up, so stayed in bed until around one. Then I had to do mundane stuff like shop for food and do obscene amounts of Laundry. Oh, what fun. Added a few new pics to my LiveJournal and noticed that a couple more people have friended me (waves). After that, I got down to doing some more writing - had to forcibly restrain one of my characaters from referring to himself as a t00b (whatever that means), so have clearly been reading too much LJ. Watched WarGames while I ate tea - another surprisingly good movie which I haven't watched for years. More CD ripping and writing and writing after that - noticed that have just passed 15,000 words, so about 1/5 done. Unfortunately, expect to run out of plot ideas in about 5-10,000 words time. Darn. Wrote LiveJournal entry. Went to bed. (OK, that last part is still in the future).
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Re: War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

addedentry

October 7 2002, 01:41:38 UTC 18 years ago

Is it just that WarGames was released (or rather, screened on BBC) when we were particularly impressionable? Or is this, so soon after watching Ferris Bueller, evidence that Mark is stalking Matthew Broderick?

Personally I identified not with Broderick's sassy kid but with the reclusive Falken. And I was eight.

Chris, I have a VHS copy; the DVD doesn't seem to have any extras. Next time you visit London, how about a nice game of chess suitably themed partay? For added authenticity, WW3 might well have started in real life...

Re: War, Games, what is it good for? Quite a lot, actually

jiggery_pokery

October 7 2002, 13:31:42 UTC 18 years ago

First sentence: absolutely correct. Well spotted. I dread to think how many times the BBC have shown it, but I must have seen most of them.

Paragraph three: this from the man who wrote "I hate parties (except political parties)" to a man who feels the same way? That said, the thought of a local nice party for local nice people is rather a different proposition. Themed parties are particularly vexing because it's difficult to know how far to take the theming metaphor. (Also, I have no independent concept of costuming.) That said, the thought of a gathering of nice people for party-type activities is a very fine one, if you felt minded to so host.

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