Lathany

Bank holiday weekends - there should be more.

• Cause Celeb - Being something of a Bridget Jones fan (the books, not the films) for light reading (I read BJ and sequel on an aeroplane to Vancouver) I started this as something to ease back into reading on the train again. It's fun and very eighties (although first published in the early nineties). The two themes are celebrity relationships and stopping a (famine) crisis in Africa. The result is very readable, less humorous than BJ, but with lines that you can really relate to the author. For example "Funny how at twenty-five you worry about not being taken seriously and take being a sex object for granted. Later you take being taken seriously for granted, and worry about being a sex object." Turns out it was Fielding's debut novel and I think it's worth getting (or borrowing - happy to lend out!) if you like this sort of thing.
• Amelie - We watched this on Friday night and I would seriously recommend it. I love it for being funny - particularly the gnome stuff - and for showing someone going to a lot of trouble on behalf of other people, but in an imaginative way. It's also one of the few films without a plot that I really liked.
• From the Cellars of Xanadu / aka We're not in Kansas anymore - The players turned up (well, except the one that managed to bulls-eye the worst "miss a session" moment ever) expecting to continue to take on marines in the Anigath universe in 2231 and then found themselves back in 2011 as university students playing a computer game. ao_lai has theorised that 2231 is the part that's "real" and I'm not yet going to comment.
• How to spend the Friday evening before a bank holiday weekend - Stomping towards the local pub with a colleague and getting a bottle of chilled white wine to share. I'm mostly a red wine drinker these days, but the first sign of summery weather and I'm somewhat wistfully craving a chilled glass of white wine. We had a great late afternoon/early evening and talked shop and kids and (a little) computer games. Then I trogged home to a Chinese takeaway, dessert wine and Amelie. A truly perfect evening.

Finally - I'm probably going to make good on my threat/promise and write up Heroes season one more fully episode by episode. The question is - does anyone else care? I'm quite happy to lock my posts to me only, 'cos they're my record of what I think, or to leave them open, or to filter for anyone who is screaming "no more Heroes-worship please" and sobbing into their keyboard. I'll take nil feedback as an invitation to do whatever I feel like on an episode by episode basis. Cheers.