Thank you, Susan!

Rixosous has a marvelous recent entry, musing on the potentially poor choice of metaphors chosen by an overly-expensive SFFH writing workshop.  It is snarkily scholarly, and anyone who has attempted to write science fiction, fantasy or horror, or studied the Odyssey, will enjoy both the entry and the comments.

Nine (the movie of a musical of a movie)

One of the nice things about having been on vacation for the last several days has been the opportunity to see a couple of movies while they're still in the theaters.  On Wednesday, we saw Nine; we'd wanted to see it anyway, and the showtime made it a quite acceptable substitution for The Princess and The Frog, which was - astonishingly - sold out.  We then caught Princess and Frog on Friday.  While I have thoughts about Princess and Frogl, I've written sufficiently about Nine to call this an entry on its own.  (It's rather longer than jab2 's concise summary of the film, I'm afraid.)

( About Nine )