A Day that Turned out Better
Apr. 1st, 2005 01:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matrixrefugeeI am not going to mention the News Item That Nearly Killed Me. I don't want to start any arguments, and I'm putting it behind me. It wasn't my battle, but I hope to God that I never get in the middle of something like that.
But... I had a great day other than that. I went into Lowell: printed out some stuff, collected a few needed pictures and things. I nipped into the Barnes and Noble downtown and got the "Star Wars Episode III" comic book tie-in (A friend of mine online did some of the artwork on it ::Waves:: Hi, Laurie!!) and one of the "Hellblazer" collections, "Rare Cuts".
My folks and I went up to the Northshore Mall, partly to poke around the Carmelite Gift Shop and partly to bring Mark his Easter basket/present; he works nights at the Carmelites' shop. I got Gabriel Amorth's "An Exorcist: More Stories", a follow-up to his "An Exorcist Tells His Story"; the author is the Chief Exorcist of Rome, in case you were wondering. I re-read his first book after seeing "Constantine" earlier in March. Mark and I nipped into the *large* B&N up there: I was looking for Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" short story collection, as well as any of the "Sandman" books. I got the follow-up to the main comics "The Dream Hunters", and when I went to pay for it and "Smoke and Mirrors", Mark suprised me by paying for the latter: he kinda hijacked the book from me. He had a gift card he hadn't used, so he made me an Easter present of that book. Ain't he sweet!
Then, we went to the IMAX theatre at Jordan's Furniture in Woburn, where we saw "Robots". The plot is a bit thin: a young robot with big dreams ventures to the big city to fulfill that dream, only to find that he has to help that city save itself, as part of making his dream come true. But the sight gags and the visuals and the characters and the voice talents are what really make the movie work, like a colorful, giant Rube Goldberg contraption.
But... I had a great day other than that. I went into Lowell: printed out some stuff, collected a few needed pictures and things. I nipped into the Barnes and Noble downtown and got the "Star Wars Episode III" comic book tie-in (A friend of mine online did some of the artwork on it ::Waves:: Hi, Laurie!!) and one of the "Hellblazer" collections, "Rare Cuts".
My folks and I went up to the Northshore Mall, partly to poke around the Carmelite Gift Shop and partly to bring Mark his Easter basket/present; he works nights at the Carmelites' shop. I got Gabriel Amorth's "An Exorcist: More Stories", a follow-up to his "An Exorcist Tells His Story"; the author is the Chief Exorcist of Rome, in case you were wondering. I re-read his first book after seeing "Constantine" earlier in March. Mark and I nipped into the *large* B&N up there: I was looking for Neil Gaiman's "Smoke and Mirrors" short story collection, as well as any of the "Sandman" books. I got the follow-up to the main comics "The Dream Hunters", and when I went to pay for it and "Smoke and Mirrors", Mark suprised me by paying for the latter: he kinda hijacked the book from me. He had a gift card he hadn't used, so he made me an Easter present of that book. Ain't he sweet!
Then, we went to the IMAX theatre at Jordan's Furniture in Woburn, where we saw "Robots". The plot is a bit thin: a young robot with big dreams ventures to the big city to fulfill that dream, only to find that he has to help that city save itself, as part of making his dream come true. But the sight gags and the visuals and the characters and the voice talents are what really make the movie work, like a colorful, giant Rube Goldberg contraption.
