There are a couple of ideas floating around the old cabeza for something to replace The Asylum, but nebulous as they are, I’m loath to disclose them at this point. SimStories will continue on in much the same vein as it is now, with a few tweaks, and there may eventually be future sub-sites for some of my other creative pursuits.

Anyway, that’s a brief update on my headspace. Changes are coming. I can’t predict exactly when, but they’re coming.

Just sayin’.

Her name is Priyanka Chopra, she hails from India, and she was Miss World 2000. And some sources are reporting that she’s “in negotiations” to star in Joss Whedon’s upcoming Wonder Woman movie. She has ties to Boston; seems she spent some of her high school years out thisaway, and in an interview last year, when her father was being treated for a tumor on his liver in Boston, said she comes here every year, and that her best friends are here. Which pretty much concludes my knowledge of the lovely Ms. Chopra.

I don’t know how well she can handle a lasso, but at least she’s got some experience wearing a tiara.

QED. First time out, I want to see the whole movie. Technical limitations with IMAX equipment limit the running time of the films they can play, and a quick check of the listed running times for both my preferred Showcase (Revere) and IMAX (Reading) theaters shows the IMAX running time coming in at 9 minutes under the Showcase (148 minutes vs 157 minutes)… although I’ve been told by someone that he’s heard the IMAX version has had 34 minutes trimmed out.

So, tomorrow, opening day, I’ll be at the Showcase. Then (sometime next week, I expect), I’ll head out to the IMAX to check out the 3D sequences.

In any event… welcome back, Kal-El! 

My short list? I’m thinking Ben McKenzie or Kevin Connolly could do decent jobs of playing Baker as straight man, with a touch of humor, or if they decide to go the full slapstick Starsky and Hutch route, Bret Harrison might work out.

Of course, this still leaves open the questions of who’ll play Sergeant Getraer, Barry Baricza, Artie Grossman, Sindy Cahill, Bonnie Clark, Jeb Turner, and of course, Harlan Arliss? Any suggestions?

Homefront. Murder One. Misfits of Science. Grosse Pointe. Freaks & Geeks. Undeclared. Firefly. Wonderfalls. Arrested Development. Justice League Unlimited. And now we can add Invasion and Everwood to the charnel heap.

TV… it was fun while it lasted. But more and more, it seems you’re actively doing your best to drive me away. It’s working.

On the upside… I guess I’ll have more time to read.

*TANJ: an acronym coined by Larry Niven in his Known Space books, meaning There Ain’t No Justice, a phrase appearing numerous times in the works of Robert A. Heinlein.

There are times, like today, when I think about my mother, and I feel guilty, because I’m certain to about fifteen decimal places that I’m not the person I think she hoped I would be. In fact, I don’t even know what I’d have to say to that person if I ever met him. I just don’t think we’d have very much in common.

After my mother died, I found myself thinking — a lot — about my own mortality. By the time I reached high school, I was fairly convinced that I wouldn’t live to see the year 2000. I’d be 36 by then… surely my time would be up long before that. Then, from the time I hit 25, I started looking at those five-year milestones. By the time 30 rolled around, not only was I unsure I would make it to the next milestone… I wasn’t sure I wanted to. On final approach to 40, I was pretty certain that I didn’t want to survive to that marker.

Which brings us to today… May 10, 2006. 32 years since my mother’s passing, and just about midway between the 40 and 45 milestones. My aunt (father’s youngest sister) called today, to tell me that my grandmother has some old coins that she wants to give to me, and during the conversation, my aunt said that she and my grandmother were just looking at some old pictures of my mother yesterday, and that there’s a lot of my mother in me. I’m sure it was meant to be comforting, but in actuality, it just made me feel about ten times more hollow than I already did.

So… what do I do with that? All I know right now is that 45’s on the way, and I have no particular desire to get there.

And BTW, trackback spammers: bite me.

It’s here. Subdomain and everything. Have a look, if you dare. MUAH-HA-HA-oh, wait. It’s not sinister.

Well, not yet, anyway.