{"id":7646,"date":"2011-10-29T23:11:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T03:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2011-10-29T23:11:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T03:11:17","slug":"snow-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=7646","title":{"rendered":"Snow? In October?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It snowed today, the first time this season, and supposedly the snowiest October on record in New York. We had no real accumulation, just a heavy white dusting on the lawn and disgusting and cold slush in the streets. It really did turn brutishly nasty almost overnight, right from very early fall — or even late summer; most of the trees still have green leaves on them — straight into winter.<\/p>\n

I spent the day almost entirely inside. I finished reading Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile<\/i>, which was okay, I guess, although I don’t think it’s her best work. Maybe her best character development; she spends an awful long time introducing us to people before anything really nefarious gets underway. But as a fun whodunit? I guessed who the killer was relatively early — well, as early as you can when the murder doesn’t happen until halfway through the book — but I didn’t do so on any evidence in the book. And, in the end, it seemed like that’s how Hercule Poirot solved the mystery too, unfortunately. Still, it was entertaining enough.<\/p>\n

I also re-watched The Silence of the Lambs<\/i>, which a recent episode of Judge John Hodgman<\/a> (and last night’s brief capping of it<\/a>) made me want to see again. It really holds up remarkably well for a twenty-year-old thriller I’ve seen more than once. (The book’s not terrible either, although Red Dragon<\/i> is better. I never made it more than a couple of chapters into Hannibal<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

I watched a few episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise<\/i> and the most recent episode of The Walking Dead<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I updated the Kaleidotrope website<\/a>. Check it out: the cover art for the new fall issue, the last one in print, is up now, along with a quick taste of each of the twenty — count ’em, twenty! — stories contained within.<\/p>\n

And this evening, I watched the 1972 horror anthology Asylum<\/a>. It’s got a great cast, that includes such stars as Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, and Britt Ekland. And some of the stories — written by horror legend Robert Bloch — aren’t bad. But ultimately the movie’s more than a little silly. Some good fun, but not remotely scary.<\/p>\n

Well, that more or less was my Saturday, such as it was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It snowed today, the first time this season, and supposedly the snowiest October on record in New York. We had no real accumulation, just a heavy white dusting on the lawn and disgusting and cold slush in the streets. It really did turn brutishly nasty almost overnight, right from very early fall — or even … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[16,13,4,14,28,17,114],"class_list":["post-7646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-books","tag-capping","tag-kaleidotrope","tag-movies","tag-personal","tag-tv","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}