Random DVD stuff

Just in from Blockbuster, using the other of the free rental cards my mother ended up giving to me: I rented "Osama" yesterday -- have yet to watch it, though it's one I've been wanting to see -- and I got "Vanity Fair" today. They've been pulling some of their rarely-rented DVDs and putting them up for sale; lo and behold, but "Man of the Century" (aka. the movie that might as well be about Frank Sweitz the Jazz-Age Heroic Reporter) was one of them, so I snapped that up.

Thursday night (actually early Friday morning), I finally watched the deleted scenes on the "Constantine" DVD; pretty good stuff, though if you've read the movie novelization, it's pretty familiar ground (*very* familiar ground for me, actually, since I've kept the book within reach while I've been writing "The Smoke of Satan..." and "Changing of the Guard").

( Houseparty Hijinks: The Demon Hunter's 2 cents on the Cut Scenes )

And only ten days more till "Sahara" comes out on DVD. Let's hope "Deleted Scenes" translates to "more Lambert".

31_days Flash fic: "A.I." RPG

A present for a dear friend...

Title: Alhambra Night
Day/Theme: August 20: Alhambra
Series: "A.I.: Artificial Intelligence" RPG -- "Le Faune et L'Empereur"
Character/Pairing: Original Male Character/Original Male character
Rating: PG-13 (slash overtones, nothing explicit)

Note: Ilia Sarkozi belongs to my dear friend Ruby T. O'Neill: I'm just borrowing him... Also, the best soundtrack for this fic is "The Pines of the Janiculum" from Ottorino Respighi's The Pines of Rome.

( Alhambra Night )

"Whatever gets you through the night..."

Boring night at work... Aside from dodging the mentally challenged creep/our town's village idiot who seems to think women exist to be ogled, insulted and to make rude comments at. Kudos to the young clerk who told the Village Idiot to stop talking to the girls like that. If he was a little older, I'd have asked him out for supper, to reward our young knight for fending off that maddening ogre...

But this was worth coming home to. Apparantly, some diocese made it up as a kind of vocational recruitment poster:

http://www.catholic.org/images/ins_news/2005070550.jpg

What's next? "Constantine" parody posters to encourage Catholics to get dead serious about spiritual warfare? ;8^D