Basking

In the light of a fairly successful diversion around the narrative block of 'The Glove', and a much welcome haircut, it's time to bask in the ever so welcome feeling of being free and a bit tired. Tired? Well, I made a deal with myself that every time I went to the job centre to sign the accursed piece of paper I would cycle to town and back instead of getting the bus. It's a beautiful idea, and there's a cycle track at the top of the hill to get me there, but it has one horrible disadvantage: The trip back is uphill all the way, sometimes cruelly so. That's doubly terrible when you're hauling groceries! As a result of that uphill return leg, you get the welcome tiredness, and as a result of the haircut a sense of freedom. It's a potent mix, like coal and herring.

Tonight, to plug the other endeavour, we're recording a fan commentary for Disney's 'Hunchback of Notre Dame'. In all likelihood, that movie will get its own entry here on 'The Quirky Muffin', but let us say for now that it provides a lot of scope for conversation, much more than my following choice of 'Condorman' in a few fortnights. Oh, 'Condorman', you're great but my sister is already complaining about you...

The landmark event of the week should have been getting the feedback for the required revisions to the mythical paper submitted in May, which is good, but in actuality it's the landmark of nearing the end of 'Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea', which is a ridiculous accomplishment. Ridiculous! In a week or so I'll attempt a massive 'Voyage' versus 'Star Trek' debate followed by a grand re-evaluation of this much-maligned and frequently daft and budget-starved show. So far, with only seven episodes left, the show has entered into the latest of the budgetary crunches that plagued its later seasons. We're seeing the big-eyed monster again, huzzah, for that old stock footage feeling! It's weird how it would ever be so acceptable for a show to so many sequences where the interiors are never matching the motion, position, or even sense of what's happening outside, but apparently that's how the 1960s worked.

The clock is ticking down toward recording time, and so this Quirky Muffin will have to be put to some kind of bed. The strange days continue but at least the burden of needing a haircut is gone, and now some creativity is seeping in to relieve the depravity for a while. In a post that is surely going to seem television references heavy, it's also nice to think that 'The Mentalist' season six DVDs will finally come out on Monday. It's been a long wait to see what happens, excepting the fact that I read all about it on ReviewBrain's blog, which focuses heavily on 'The Mentalist' when it's airing. Hence there will be no surprises at all except for everything I've forgotten. Blast!

That's a wrap! The four hundreds are going pretty well so far...

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