Thoreauvian Flash Fiction

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
--Henry David Thoreau

I'm starting a new writing project. It's a collection of flash fiction stories, all inspired by Thoreau quotes. I've written five already. They will go here once I revise and type them. For now, the website has the quotes which inspired the stories, but not yet the stories themselves. So you can read the quotes and wonder to yourself what inspiration came from that.

A couple timey-wimey reviews

First off, I recommend Source Code, directed by Duncan Jones. It's not time travel exactly, but still "timey-wimey" as Time Out NY called it. It's more to do with quantum mechanics--the mind and alternate universes and whatnot. It's basically 12 Monkeys meets Groundhog Day. It was better than I thought it would be. I was worried it would be too much like an action film, but it's more psychological and about character interaction than it is an action movie (which is good). There's a fair amount of refrigerator logic. Not that anything was wrong with the plot, but there are things that you realize later on. Definitely something to watch twice, not because it was confusing the first time, but it was enjoyable and you'll probably pick up a lot the second time.






And now to the Doctor Who series 6 premier. Didn't get anything done all day (except the doodle on the left) because BBC America correctly predicted we needed a series 5 marathon all day. Well actually I was at church for 2 hours setting up for Easter brunch, but the rest was just watching TV.

As River would say "Spoilers":

First off, the monsters: quite a scary, monsters that you forget about when you can't see them. So they've always been here on Earth and people just forget they've seen them? It's a bit like the quantum mechanics idea that your brain will not perceive anything it can't understand even if it's right in front of you, so there could be aliens all around you and you don't know it. It's also a bit of the weeping angels gimick where you have to keep looking at them, which makes them scarier because they look scary.

Second, Mark Sheppard is awesome, and it's really cool that he has a big role in these episodes. I wasn't expecting him to have an American accent since he's British and it's a British show. Oh, and how cool is it that his own father plays his older self? But, does Mark Sheppard only do TV shows that have both cowboys and space travel? Sorry, Firefly joke.

Third, nice new spin that it's not just that the Doctor and River meet each other out of order, but in opposite orders. I didn't really think much of the fact that the first time the Doctor saw River, it was the last time that River saw the Doctor. Now we know that the first time River saw the Doctor was the last time the Doctor saw River. So, that probably means that she's going to kill him, right? Hard days ahead, in prison for killing the most extraordinary man she's ever met. I hope they'll be a little more surprising than that.

I just read that there's going to be a movie called "Them" and I don't know who will be in it, but I do know the crew:

Written by Mike White (who wrote School of Rock)
Produced by Mike White and Jack Black
Directed by Edgar Wright (who directed Shaun of the Dead, etc.)
Based on a book by Jon Ronson (who wrote Men Who Stare at Goats)
Wow, that is amazing waiting to happen.

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