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altivoSo Gary brought home a DVD last week. Remaindered, probably at Walmart, for $5. He picked it up because of the steam-punkish picture on the front, of a dirigible carrying a metal ship's hull aloft.
The picture is called Stardust and neither of us had heard of it. He wanted to watch it, so we did, tonight. While unwrapping it, my librarian's eagle eyes (cataloging DVDs is bad for your eyesight, you have to read all that teensy-eensy print and it becomes a habit) noticed that it was... produced by Neil Gaiman, from the book by Neil Gaiman... Wait! What? I never heard of this book by Neil Gaiman.
So we watched it. And you should too. It's clever, of course, and witty, and hilarious. Turns out that the "book" was actually four comics, or a graphic novel, illustrated by Charles Vesa. The original will be in my hands by Monday so I can see what it was like. But this film gets at least 4 apples from us.
Oh, and the bandwidth controls on my new router setup passed the preliminary tests today. One more thing to do, and that's set up a caching web proxy on it. Should be ready to go live next week.
The picture is called Stardust and neither of us had heard of it. He wanted to watch it, so we did, tonight. While unwrapping it, my librarian's eagle eyes (cataloging DVDs is bad for your eyesight, you have to read all that teensy-eensy print and it becomes a habit) noticed that it was... produced by Neil Gaiman, from the book by Neil Gaiman... Wait! What? I never heard of this book by Neil Gaiman.
So we watched it. And you should too. It's clever, of course, and witty, and hilarious. Turns out that the "book" was actually four comics, or a graphic novel, illustrated by Charles Vesa. The original will be in my hands by Monday so I can see what it was like. But this film gets at least 4 apples from us.
Oh, and the bandwidth controls on my new router setup passed the preliminary tests today. One more thing to do, and that's set up a caching web proxy on it. Should be ready to go live next week.
