About Fred

Well, apparently the Friday Five is back:

1. How often do you do laundry? When I start to run out of clean clothes. I sometimes think it would be simpler just to keep buying new socks.

2. What’s in a typical wash load? Typically, I mix clothes and detergent and water and let the machine take it from there. It’s more qualified than I am.

3. Front or top loader? Powder or liquid detergent? When will this inquisition end?! But seriously, top-loading washer because that’s what my apartment complex has. Liquid detergent because…um…well, just because.

4. Do you use fabric softener in the rinse cycle? That would require that I be in the laundry room when the rinse cycle starts, so no. I typically ignore my laundry until it’s done.

5. Dryer or clothesline? Dryer. Because I have no back yard and besides, what would you do if it rained?

I’m having a lot of fun being a part of 600 seconds thanks to my friend Sharon, who came up with the idea in the first place — or at least had the good sense to steal it from her friend Ben. It’s a collaborative weblog, ten minutes each weekday on a given topic, and so far I’m really pleased with the results and looking foward to seeing where this goes. Why not check it out and let us know what you think.

In his periodic e-mail newsletter, bad signal, Warren Ellis writes:

In the excellent book on 60’s/70’s Hollywood, EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS, a conversation with the EXORCIST director William Friedkin is reported, that took place immediately after he saw STAR WARS. Friedkin, who had just completed the difficult SORCERER, turned to Jeanne Moreau and said, “I dunno, sweet little robots and stuff, maybe we’re on the wrong horse.”

Elsewhere in the film world, I discover that apparently Morgan Freeman is at work on an adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s novel Rendezvous With Rama. David Fincher, who is slated to direct, describes it as “what it would be like if five satellite repairmen rather than scientists had first contact with extraterrestrial intelligence.”

Now I guess I finally have to read it.