Wherever you go... there you are.

Back home. Worst thing we saw on the road (besides the expected 837 cars-in-ditches, since it snowed an inch) was a Hummer pulled over by the State Patrol. I didn't even know those things could GO fast enough on level ground to get arrested for speeding...

Und now, a quiz.
( Does this make sense to you? )

When did my brain fire that?

Oddly detailed dream about test-firing different handguns, and eventually being very impressed with the "Walther that Scully shot", since it was made for smaller hands. No such gun exists, of course, but that doesn't stop me from having enough detail in my dream to describe the safety mechanism, breech, magazine configuration, materials, shape, trigger pull, and HUD (yeah, I mentioned it was a dream, right?).

Oh, and it fired AA batteries, if you so desired.

It's a very Weinstein Thanksgiving...

Had a chance to get away from people and into a scary movie this afternoon, so I took it. Seemed like such a good idea, I did it twice, actually.

First up was Halloween at the $2 theater. I have to give Rob Zombie credit, he did a good job with this one; it's very coherent and psychological. Be warned, if you've wanted to see the original/original series but haven't, you should see those first, as this reverses the order in which a major plot point is revealed. Malcolm McDowell does a creditable Dr. Loomis, and Scout Taylor-Compton does a good job of differentiating herself from Jamie Lee Curtis, while staying frighteningly close to form. The less said about the ending ahead of time, the better (not because it's bad, but because it's different from the originals)

Then, to the regular theater for opening weekend of The Mist. This has always been one of my favorite King short stories, and seeing Roland in the opening scene was worth the price of admission right there. Then: Giant. Fuckoff. Bugs. &*%^(*&%&*$#^#3. Excellent effects, nicely blended with the actual footage (good choice to use film, not digital, on this one), and the adapted ending is different but good in its own right. Again, if you haven't read the original, you'll probably want to do that first (it's in Skeleton Crew IIRC).

In between the two, I ducked into the previews and first few minutes of Hitman. No link here, as it truly is not worth the price I paid to get into it. Terrible ...though what can you expect from a movie based on a video game of an assassin with a barcode on the back of his shaved head?