suppose i accidentally got my shit together

saw "gosford park" last night. i liked it. it was a quiet fairly slow, fairly restrained (very restrained for a hollywood film, not really that restrained for *actual* british upstairs/downstairs sorts of stuff) film. i don't think it's worthy of the best picture oscar on its own, but i can't think of anything else that should be nominated in its place (especially considering the "no animation, no comedy" bias of the academy, so "shrek" is right out)

okay, i just got back from vericon (http://www.vericon.org - it's a sf con from the kids at hrsfa, the harvard/radcliffe science fiction association). i got to chat with terry moore, i got to listen to him and scott mcloud and henry jenkins (prof at MIT) talk about comics and such, i played some games and learned some new games. generally, i had fun. it was very low key and very small.

that was friday night thru sunday afternoon - i didn't get home since claudia is closer so we just stayed at her place friday and saturday nights. then sunday night we went out to dinner with some hrsfa folks and went to see "donnie darko" which is the most peculiar film i've seen in a while. it's dark and fucked up and really very cool and i enjoyed it and i'm still thinking about it.