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Needle in the Camel's Eye
May. 16th, 2010 10:45 amHey, we had a day off!
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rarelylynne decided that the Thomas family should have some fun on Saturday.
1- We saw Iron Man 2. It delivered on our expectations. My inner 12-year-old loved it. In my youth, my comics of choice all involved the Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, the West Coast Avengers). I had no interest in the Mutant titles. Many years later, I'm very happy to see the essence of what I enjoyed transformed into amazing action films. Caitlin loved the fights and explosions, and Lynne shipped Tony and Pepper like Fed Ex. Good times. The only thing that sucked was the theater eliminated its free-pass program for people in wheelchairs. Since they collect money for the Children's Miracle Network (which includes Children's Memorial Hospital), I momentarily considered asking the manager for Caitlin's cut instead.
2- The rest of the day involved eating, reading, lounging around, and watching Season 1 of Buffy. Caitlin really enjoyed the whole Buffy/Angel thing in the episode "Angel." I think Cait wants to be a Slayer when she grows up.
3- Since we live in THE FUTURE, Lynne and I kicked back with some wine and the live stream from the Nebula Awards after we put Cait to bed. We really wanted to be there, but this was almost as good. We realized how embedded we are in the community last night. The very first thing we saw wasshsilver working his tux. For some reason, the cam stayed on justbeast and yuki_onna for most of the banquet. Lynne and Cat exchanged a couple of OMG texts, prompting Cat and Dmitri to wave at us and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
tobiasbuckell who was doing the same thing with Cat on Twitter (yes, we are all tech goobers in the Gen X/Y SF scene).
It was a lovely ceremony. It seemed like every couple of minutes we would get excited because one of our peeps showed up on camera. It's Mary! It's David! It's Jack! Kathleen's there!
We were ecstatic that Cat and Kage won. Our only regret was, of course, that Kage didn't live long enough to finally get the major award she so deserved.
4- Remember all of those blogs a couple of years ago about how women, PoC,and Gen Xers weren't winning the major SF awards? It's probably too early to dub this a sea change, but it's certainly a promising trend.
rarelylynne decided that the Thomas family should have some fun on Saturday. 1- We saw Iron Man 2. It delivered on our expectations. My inner 12-year-old loved it. In my youth, my comics of choice all involved the Avengers (Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hawkeye, the West Coast Avengers). I had no interest in the Mutant titles. Many years later, I'm very happy to see the essence of what I enjoyed transformed into amazing action films. Caitlin loved the fights and explosions, and Lynne shipped Tony and Pepper like Fed Ex. Good times. The only thing that sucked was the theater eliminated its free-pass program for people in wheelchairs. Since they collect money for the Children's Miracle Network (which includes Children's Memorial Hospital), I momentarily considered asking the manager for Caitlin's cut instead.
2- The rest of the day involved eating, reading, lounging around, and watching Season 1 of Buffy. Caitlin really enjoyed the whole Buffy/Angel thing in the episode "Angel." I think Cait wants to be a Slayer when she grows up.
3- Since we live in THE FUTURE, Lynne and I kicked back with some wine and the live stream from the Nebula Awards after we put Cait to bed. We really wanted to be there, but this was almost as good. We realized how embedded we are in the community last night. The very first thing we saw was
shsilver working his tux. For some reason, the cam stayed on justbeast and yuki_onna for most of the banquet. Lynne and Cat exchanged a couple of OMG texts, prompting Cat and Dmitri to wave at us and tobiasbuckell who was doing the same thing with Cat on Twitter (yes, we are all tech goobers in the Gen X/Y SF scene).It was a lovely ceremony. It seemed like every couple of minutes we would get excited because one of our peeps showed up on camera. It's Mary! It's David! It's Jack! Kathleen's there!
We were ecstatic that Cat and Kage won. Our only regret was, of course, that Kage didn't live long enough to finally get the major award she so deserved.
4- Remember all of those blogs a couple of years ago about how women, PoC,and Gen Xers weren't winning the major SF awards? It's probably too early to dub this a sea change, but it's certainly a promising trend.
