Monday, March 17, 2003
It's raining today, but warmer. The sun came out yesterday and the afternoon was very pleasant, after all.
This morning, I forsook my usual breakfast (a can of Campbell's condensed soup) for a shamefully decadent meal of bacon, sauteed baby portabella mushrooms, grilled cheese sandwiches (made with Swiss cheese), and slices of fresh tomato. Spooky and I pigged. It was a proper hobbit's breakfast, and one that I shall not make a habit of, as large morning meals leave me feeling a big weighted and dull.
Yesterday I wrote a first draft of the afterword for the Subterranean Press edition of Low Red Moon. It turned out pretty well, I think. It's a short, rambly, going-nowhere-in-particular sort of an afterword. I'll go over it again today before sending it along to Bill Schafer. Also, today I need to write the very short piece that I've agreed to do for the Camelot Records "chapette" book. I'm planning to get three chapters of Murder of Angels written in April. It won't make up for letting myself get behind, but it'll put me a lot closer to the finished ms. I should still have it done by August.
Though it irked me to give the Sci-Fi Channel the time, I watched the first part of The Children of Dune last night, and was generally pleased with it. I think it comes off a bit better than their version of Dune did (which was a monumental improvement over David Lynch's). And I'm also very happy to see that Alex Proyas has done Farmer's Riverworld for Sci-Fi. I can't forgive them for cancelling Farscape, but I will admit that I'm glad to see these adaptations. A shame that their remaining original programming is such tripe. It's unthinkable that Farscape is actually to be replaced with Tremors: The Series. Sci-Fi holds the rights to rerun the existing episodes of Farscape for the next two years and they'll begin airing them, starting with Season One, Episode One, at midnight on March 31st, Monday thru Thursday, through the end of Season Three (presumably). Yes, midnight. But what's even more absurd, Season Four will be rerun, beginning, I think, April 4th, each Friday morning at 5 a.m.! It's difficult not to see this action as spiteful. Sci-Fi knows that potential buyers (and Henson is still seeking a new network for the series) will take into account how the reruns are performing in the ratings. I only hope that those potential buyers also take into account that Sci-Fi is doing it's damnedest to insure low ratings. I was under the impression that the network only aired infomercials at that ungodly hour. I'll watch the midnight airings, and urge others to do likewise (here's your chance to see the series from the start), but even I'm not game for 5 a.m.
Oh, and Happy St. Patrick's Day. Celebrate by checking out the Cat Dentures Auction on eBay (Jennifer apologizes for all the out-of-date info. on the page, by the way). I'll be adding some new items soon, including copies of the Study for "Estate" chapbook, ARCs of From Weird and Distant Shores, and the last of the Salammbo t-shirts.
Time to work . . .
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