I couldn’t make it to the end of Frankenstein. Too … predictable? And cruel. This past weekend, Friday perhaps, we watched Son of Frankenstein, and i enjoyed that.

“Loot” is prescient. “Karma” is fascinating, stories of return at a number of different levels, stories looking into the differences of people and yet…

Some odd muscle pain in my shoulder yesterday, but i made it to work. This book was on the “please take” table, so when i finally had to go home, I took it with me. I’d read “Inheritor” last year (B46), picked up at the used book store in the RDU airport. I realized I would be getting the back story here. The book cover claims, “A novel of First Contact,” so when it opened with the Phoenix crew overshooting the destination, i thought, “Ah, really deep back story,” then the novel jumps ahead to the landing on the planet. “Ah, yay, back story on—maybe the war,” but then it jumps ahead to … the same character in “Inheritor.”

A bit of a surprise, but enjoyable. Certainly took my mind off the pain.

Watched “Dancers in Mourning” Sunday night (2006-03-05) while L visiting. Rather nonsensical resolution, we thought.

Slowly getting episodes disks through Netflix. Finished the disk with episodes 85-88 on Feb 28. Yet another cliff hanger with “Babel One;” a nice homage to TOS. I have to admit that the long story lines with multiple story arcs carried across episodes - contemporary TV story-telling - is far more engaging than TOS. I really like Enterprise.

And “Babel One,” with yet another with Trip & Reed stuck in a dire straits, makes reference to a brief bit of dialogue from several seasons previous - just after Christine and i mutter about that dialogue - ah, the scriptwriters write for us!

I guess that’s why it’s gone now.

Picked up The Case of the Late Pig at the library, watched it on 2006-02-18.

It’s a lovely soft yarn, which means it’s not twisted tightly. That means i keep sending the hook thorough the ply, snagging a thread here, a couple threads there.

Worth watching as an interesting pop culture archeology expedition and mildly diverting viewing in the MSTK3000 vein.