Fueled by coffee (which I rarely drink, being a tea wuss), I just spent the evening not working on the Paladin book and am now about to get back to those almost-final polishings.<\/p>\n
Meantime I enjoyed an excellent noir thriller which is as much a meditation on love, loss, regret, memory, and obsession as it is a murder mystery. The Secret in Their Eyes<\/i><\/a>. It won this year’s Best Foreign-Language Picture Oscar — one of the few times I think I might agree with the Academy voters on a foreign film (they usually vote too politically correct or two just-plain-sappy for me in that category). A good evening. A good break.<\/p>\n Speaking of good. If you didn’t follow the link that -S left in last night’s comments section, you really gotta see this strange, precise, and hysterically doggy music video<\/a> by the group Ok Go. Out two days and nearly 2,000,000 views. Whoo. Never heard of ’em until -S posted the link. Now I’m hooked. Almost as good — though lacking the crucial element of dogs — is this one<\/a>. Fifty-two million views. <\/p>\n And some stuff I collected while That’s it. I’m tired. Back to work since the coffee sez no sleeping for the next couple of hours. But it is so<\/i> past my bedtime …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fueled by coffee (which I rarely drink, being a tea wuss), I just spent the evening not working on the Paladin book and am now about to get back to those almost-final polishings. Meantime I enjoyed an excellent noir thriller which is as much a meditation on love, loss, regret, memory, and obsession as it is a murder mystery. The Secret in Their Eyes. It won this year’s Best Foreign-Language Picture Oscar — one of the few times I think I might agree with the Academy voters on a foreign film (they usually vote too politically correct or two just-plain-sappy…<\/p>\ngoofing off<\/s> avoiding work<\/s> deeply pondering the editing and writing tasks ahead of me:<\/p>\n\n