i wrote blue lava in the receptacles of giants this morning around 3 and just posted it. sometimes i write the title to the story first. not often, but i do. that’s what happened with this one. i drew this picture:

and came up with the title after looking at it. i made it my msn screen name for a while. i didn’t know that it was because i was planning on writing a story with that title, but in hindsight i guess it was. i’ve had the name since the end of march.

we saw Troy the other day. i liked it. in the fight scenes things actually looked real. i don’t know how they did it. the sword thrusting into the guy’s shoulder actually looks like a sword thrusting into the guy’s shoulder. the spear going through the guy’s neck, the half decapitation(s). ahh, beautiful. but what i liked best was there wasn’t a definite evil side and a definite good side, so you weren’t really sure when you were happy and when you were sad.

i wanted a sprite during the movie but all they had was sierra mist. so i got it. if the correct measurement for soda pop is one part soda syrup one part carbonated water, my sierra mist was at about 10 parts soda syrup one part carbonated water. perverse sweetness mixed with popcorn topped with delicious yellow chemical sludge is not a good mix.

Laura said she doesn’t like going to movies with old people (of which there were a lot at Troy). they often get their wife or husband to repeat lines in the movie because they can’t hear, and they don’t attempt to whisper at all. i don’t mind so much, but that’s just because i’m looking forward to being old and doing this very same thing at movie theatres and annoying younger people like me. i also want to carry around mace and spray them for fun

[i was going to put the mace quote from Kill Bill Volume II here but i couldn’t find it and i didn’t remember it.]