Movie Trailers and Odd Things in the Sky

So, I've been watching the trailers for Watchmen and Star Trek and had myself a bit of a nerdgasm. I've never been a huge Star Trek fan but I dug it. I'll stop what I'm doing and catch a rerun of The Next Generation whenever I catch it on. I liked the original series but I only watched it in bits and pieces. I'd like to get caught up on it, though. From what I see in the trailer it looks like they took that and mixed in a little bit of Starship Troopers, which can't be a bad thing. At least not on paper.

Point is, while I like Star Trek, I'm not enough of a fan to go apeshit if the flick ends up being poorly executed. I'm not that fanatical about anything I didn't create myself, though. If you think you can do a better job by all means write a script and shop it around. See what happens.

Now Watchmen, that's different. Watchmen is the Great Gatsby of the comic geek world. One of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th Century. Absolutely brilliant work. One of the reasons I started writing in the first place. You don't fuck with that to make something acceptable to your focus group. That would be like turning Of Mice and Men into a musical. However, I get a boner just watching the trailer. Not to mention, coming on the heels of the Dark Knight, the bar for superhero movies has been raised like it's never been. Comic book movies have to actually be good now.

Man I've used a lot of italics in this post.

Earlier tonight I was looking up at the moon, Jupiter, and Venus making a triangle formation. Sort of like they were on a gigantic wizard hat. Anyhow a little above them I saw an airplane, and above that was what I thought at first was a satellite moving slowly North. Anyhow this little light that was very high up went behind a cloud and didn't come out again. I'm not sure if I just lost track or what but I couldn't find it. I'm not saying I saw a UFO or anything but it was pretty weird.

That's my blog for tonight, folks. Be excellent.