Babbling Point

~ In approximately 25 hours, I'll be on a plane heading towards San Francisco. It's been almost a decade since I've last been there. Brandie lived there for a year, so he'll be our tour guide. We'll be gone for a month... which is the longest time we'll be away from work. I'm sure this will do me good. :) Godspeed. "We shall not cease from explorations. And the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." T.S. ELLIOT

~ Since I am now in headless-chicken mode, trying to prepare for our trip and still finish copy, I'm cutting-and-pasting this blog entry from an email sent to me by Nessa, who now works in Singapore and tries to not feel homesick by watching lots of 80s TV shows. Dear Budj: Watching V: The Final Battle was a weekend highlight. It was so much fun to watch because it only makes sense if you remember the context in which it was filmed. So unlike Star Wars, a re-master of this won't help make it palatable to Gen Y. But that's what makes it wonderful. It something that I could claim as my own generation's and no one else's. Hahaha. FUN STUFF: 1. Since it was shot before NYPD Blue and Saving Private Ryan, no one, not a single member of the cast knows how to hold a gun. The aliens were holding laser guns so holding it ala-Han Solo is fine. But the earthlings were using uzis so that's just inexcusable. The main character, Donovan, was holding his gun