Well, I was going to post a lot more today, but then Phil suggested that we go see Big Fish instead.
Since I’m slacking off and not providing you with links to follow, I suggest that you go visit Wampum’s post listing the 2003 Koufax Awards Best Post Nominations. Every nomination includes a link to the post in question, and man, there’s a lot of great reading there. (I’m happy to say that four Alas posts – one each by Bean and PinkDreamPoppies and two by me – are included on the list).
(The other thing that kept me from posting more today was water on the floor seeping out from the furnace room, which turned out to be due to frozen water in the water-dumping tube attached to the smaller furnace. I know I’m a homeowner because my first thought, on finding out where the water was coming from, was: “Great! That’s under warrenty!”).
How was Big Fish? Looks like a good movie, I love Tim Burton’s stuff.
I thought it was great. Amp, you’ll be back by now, so I’ll say one detail I liked was in all the dad’s stories, nobody moved faster than a walk, and some stories took years. The son tells one story, a great sequence, and it’s all about the speed. Man, could literary critics write pages about that whole bit.