Chores

[randy_byers]

Another fairly productive weekend. Most importantly, I've finished my piece for Chunga. It's another fanzine review column, and I managed to shave 400 words off it by consolidating and rearranging and reframing. It's still not as rigorous as I'd like on the theoretical front, but theory has never been my strong suit. I'm a diarist at heart, I suppose.

Yesterday I took advantage of the glorious weather to edge the parking strip out front. Didn't do it last year, so it was pretty sprawling. Bee central (i.e., the ceanothus hedge) was humming. I've actually seen a couple-few honeybees around this year, but for the most part it's still a heaving masses of bumblebees all over the damned place. The mailman even remarked, "The bees like this thing, eh?"

Today I did some more writing and then mopped the kitchen floor. Lots more of that kind of thing in the days ahead, as we use the prospect of the party for Christina and Doug next Saturday as an excuse to do some (last-minute) Spring cleaning. It's rainy today, but I'm hoping to slip down to the Sunday Market to see what's cooking at some point. Could it be ... tacos?

It's a huge relief to have my writing responsibilities taken care of for the moment, although I want to get cracking on a piece about Lemuria for another fanzine next. Can't just keep muttering about it to myself here on LJ. And I've got editorial work to do, too, now that I don't have to feel hypocritical about cracking the deadline whip.

Oh, and I watched Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle (Kung fu, 2004) for the second time last night. There was one long sequence involving knives and snakes that had me laughing so hard I could hardly breathe. The fight scenes probably use CGI better than any other martial arts movie I've seen, perhaps because Yuen Woo Ping's wirework style fits with CGI more naturally than most. I'm not sure how Chow could top this movie, and it seems from this distance that maybe he isn't either.

Comments

[janetl.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it is about ceanothus -- specially tasty pollen? The combination of flowers and heavy rain has mine folding over, and I briefly thought about pruning it, until I remembered the 4.37 billion bees on it.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't know. The blossoms certainly are fragrant. Somebody once told me that bees are particularly attracted to blue and purple flowers, but I have no idea if that's true. They do like lavender too.

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

Did you ever write the article you were planning about fanzine reviewing?

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it ran in the last Chunga. I guess that was my stab at a theoretical approach. As I say, not my strong suit.

[kim-huett.livejournal.com]

I think I may not of realised that was the article because I was expecting something specifically about fanzine reviewing rather than fanzine reviews with added theory.