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Guy Fawkes Day
Nov. 6th, 2005 10:33 amYesterday was pleasant, if low-key. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rufinia and russkay both came over. We watched the Season 3 Buffy finale, which features a government building being destroyed by explosives, Then got some Chinese food and, at Rufinia's request, watched the first episode of Babylon 5. Not 100% on-theme, but did feature explosions and conspiracies, at least :-)
Seeing that B5 ep right after one of the finest Buffy episodes was actually kinda disappointing. It's really rather a clumsy piece of work, with lots of dead air and hokey line deliveries. After thinking about it some, I have to blame the director, Richard Compton. Hmmm... [googles] Yup, he's he same guy that made such a hash of the first version of the pilot movie. Good actors can overcome poor direction (Londo was a delight from the beginning), but much of the cast is not up to that level, sadly. Either they must have gotten better directors later, or I'm going to be very disappointed when I finally get around to re-watching the show...
After that, we trooped over to the Buttery for the bonfire, arriving just as it was starting to catch. They didn't actually have a Guy, but they did have a Jack-o-Lantern at the summit, which was eerily underlit by the flames. It wasn't particularly *stable*, however, and made several attempts to roll off and attackkestrell (all unsuccessful, thankfully). Eventually it got wedged in sufficiently to stop that. Pumpkins don't actually burn, as it turns out, though they will char and blacken.
There were beuatiful showers of sparks, rising up into the heavens. Well, *we* thought they were beautiful. Someone in the neighborhood thought they were *dangerous*, and actually called the fire department. So two fire trucks pulled up outside, and about a half-dozen firemen came wandering into the backyard. Marian, old radical that she is, set the proper tone immediately, by offering them pumpkin pie :-) They still insisted that the fire be put out, but were reasonably friendly about the whole thing. Strangely, they had never heard of Guy Fawkes' Day. I know most Americans haven't, but you'd think that firemen would know about that sort of thing.
kestrell was fading by then, so we came home. She went to bed, and I played some more Katamari. No explosions, but I did get to roll up the Houses of Parliament :-) I've now gotten up past 2200 meters on the biggest map, but there's clearly further to be gone. For instance, I still haven't managed to roll up either the largets volcano or The King Of All Cosmos. They shall be mine...
rufinia and russkay both came over. We watched the Season 3 Buffy finale, which features a government building being destroyed by explosives, Then got some Chinese food and, at Rufinia's request, watched the first episode of Babylon 5. Not 100% on-theme, but did feature explosions and conspiracies, at least :-)Seeing that B5 ep right after one of the finest Buffy episodes was actually kinda disappointing. It's really rather a clumsy piece of work, with lots of dead air and hokey line deliveries. After thinking about it some, I have to blame the director, Richard Compton. Hmmm... [googles] Yup, he's he same guy that made such a hash of the first version of the pilot movie. Good actors can overcome poor direction (Londo was a delight from the beginning), but much of the cast is not up to that level, sadly. Either they must have gotten better directors later, or I'm going to be very disappointed when I finally get around to re-watching the show...
After that, we trooped over to the Buttery for the bonfire, arriving just as it was starting to catch. They didn't actually have a Guy, but they did have a Jack-o-Lantern at the summit, which was eerily underlit by the flames. It wasn't particularly *stable*, however, and made several attempts to roll off and attack
kestrell (all unsuccessful, thankfully). Eventually it got wedged in sufficiently to stop that. Pumpkins don't actually burn, as it turns out, though they will char and blacken.There were beuatiful showers of sparks, rising up into the heavens. Well, *we* thought they were beautiful. Someone in the neighborhood thought they were *dangerous*, and actually called the fire department. So two fire trucks pulled up outside, and about a half-dozen firemen came wandering into the backyard. Marian, old radical that she is, set the proper tone immediately, by offering them pumpkin pie :-) They still insisted that the fire be put out, but were reasonably friendly about the whole thing. Strangely, they had never heard of Guy Fawkes' Day. I know most Americans haven't, but you'd think that firemen would know about that sort of thing.
kestrell was fading by then, so we came home. She went to bed, and I played some more Katamari. No explosions, but I did get to roll up the Houses of Parliament :-) I've now gotten up past 2200 meters on the biggest map, but there's clearly further to be gone. For instance, I still haven't managed to roll up either the largets volcano or The King Of All Cosmos. They shall be mine...