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A productive day, leavened by some bad news. I've also caught up another episode and a half of Ashes to Ashes, which seems to be hinting at the it's-all-a-spaceship solution, and thus more "Major Tom" than "Life on Mars".
I watched - probably rewatched - the first two Omen movies, which would be on the very edge of sf, but for the presumably 1982 (or maybe 1989) setting of Damien: Omen II.
LXXIII: Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
Pastiche of Vonnegut's Sturgeon-like alter ego Kilgore Trout, a distinctly episodic, Candide, saga of Simon the Wanderer, exiled from Earth afternoon a flood, in search of the answer to the Ultimate Question of why humanity was created only to suffer and die. Douglas Adams must have read this. Lots of ideas, but too much sex.
And now the bad news: Tom the Cheese Man is to retire. I shall have to go to Whitstable more to use the cheese shop there, or Faversham market. I am not happy, but unsurprised.
I watched - probably rewatched - the first two Omen movies, which would be on the very edge of sf, but for the presumably 1982 (or maybe 1989) setting of Damien: Omen II.
LXXIII: Kilgore Trout, Venus on the Half-Shell (1975)
Pastiche of Vonnegut's Sturgeon-like alter ego Kilgore Trout, a distinctly episodic, Candide, saga of Simon the Wanderer, exiled from Earth afternoon a flood, in search of the answer to the Ultimate Question of why humanity was created only to suffer and die. Douglas Adams must have read this. Lots of ideas, but too much sex.
And now the bad news: Tom the Cheese Man is to retire. I shall have to go to Whitstable more to use the cheese shop there, or Faversham market. I am not happy, but unsurprised.
