This is a quick, on the fly update. This is mostly because I’m having entirely too much (feline) assistance in trying to type.

Cacöethes Publishing has a description up for Amaranth. There is also a release date: December 15, 2008. Eyes on the prize.

Many thanks to Danny for jerry-rigging the iBook G4 back into working for now. I’m doubt it’ll keep working forever, but it does seem to be working for now. I still want to start putting money back for a MacBook (not a Pro or Air) though. Just to be safe.

D. Marie and I are actually just coming back from seeing The Happening, the newest M. Night Shyamalan film. Personally, I’d give it about an 8 out of 10. Tomorrow, the two of us and our friend Christopher are going to go see The Incredible Hulk. Now that’s one we’re all really excited about.

I’m less than 200 words from being caught back from last weekend. This will be a relief. Maybe then I can have a few nights that end before 1 or 2 a.m.

And now to watch The Sixth Sense and maybe even Signs, before we both settle back in to write some.

So, we went to see Iron Man yesterday — and I have to say that I actually like Movie!Tony better than Comic!Tony, especially better than Ultimates-verse Tony. Overall, I would even go so far as to say it was one of the best comic book movies in the last few years.

So, my roommate, muse, and reluctant commenter, D. Marie, now has her own blog: Ink to Page! Okay, I set it up and all, but the rest is all D. Marie. (Wow, look at all the differences in layout and colors!)

And that’s about it. I’ve been working on this post the better part of the morning — and it’s now afternoon. Therefore, it’s time to leave off.

Somehow 2008 has been a new sort of movie year for D. Marie and me. Until this year, I had never seen a single chick flick in the theater. Not a single one. In fact, until this year, I could count on my hands just how many chick flicks I had seen — and that is counting the so-called genre “romantic comedies”.

Suddenly, we’ve been to see three in the theater: 27 Dresses, Definitely Maybe, and yesterday, Made of Honor. Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus of Rome) might have impacted my reasons for Made of Honor; I’m a dork like that. I will follow an actor’s movies, especially if they make an action or horror movie/series I enjoy. That’s why I’ve seen most of Keanu Reeves movies (I liked Speed), as well as Kiefer Sutherland’s (that one is thanks to Lost Boys, definitely not 24 — the more I hear about that, the more I want to scream).

However, this weekend, we’re tempering the chick flick with blowing things up: going to see Iron Man. Now granted, even in the original Marvel universe, I didn’t care for Tony Stark, but I have to admire the chuztpah of the casting director, getting Robert Downey, Jr (an alcoholic) to play Stark (also an alcoholic). Plus I heard a rumor of what was supposed to be playing after the credits.

Anyway, our movie is at 10 a.m., so I need to start getting ready now.