Last night I dreamed about: hostages, my teeth, Jessica, Quentin Tarantino, pregnant women, picnics in the park, British gangster movies, staying at a hotel, and Robert Rodriguez. And maybe some other stuff too. Boy sometimes I wake up and it's like a hand grenade went off in my brain. I had steak and Lost last night. Might have been the hand grenade in question.

I do enjoy that Desmond fellow very much. He might be my favourite. We'll see, pending his action figure. And last night certainly seemed to confirm my Standing Theory on the Kate/Jack/Sawyer Triangle (Kate loves Jack but thinks she's too damaged to be worthy of Jack's Tremendous Awesomeness) while still leaving room for some hot Kate/Sawyer tent-humping. And the mix tape line? If that's not a Brian K. Vaughan, I shall eat my red converse.

Literary pet peeve #1: when a (bad) author learns a new word or phrase at some point in the writing of the book (usually near the middle) and then uses it over and over again because it's new and they can't control themselves. I think this falls under "bad editor," too, because if an editor isn't there to catch stuff like this, who is? The book I'm re-reading right now, Down and Dirty Pictures, was the book that first alerted me to this issue. Biskind decides he likes "buttonhole" as a verb about halfway through the book, and proceeds to use it literally every other page for the remainder of the thing. It drives me out of my tree. The pirate book I read a couple of weeks ago was also rife with this. There should be some kind of literary equivalent of "locking the code" (which you do on a visual effects project so that the last effects shot you create is rendered at the same level of quality as the first, instead of having improved through various technological leaps undergone during the production process) so that the lexicon you have when you start writing a book is the only one you're allowed to use throughout. That would be fair.

While we're on the subject, Literary Pet Peeve #2: The following phrase: "Harry realized Malfoy was going to do something and that he, Harry, would have to stop it." (Emphasis mine.) As you can probably infer, J.K. Rowling is the empress offender on this one. Yes, I know it's grammatically correct. It's still annoying as fuck. I'm capable of keeping track of sentence structure well enough to figure out who your pronouns are referring to, without having to have each one tagged with a name. As far as I'm concerned, this one should be illegal. We'll see how many pages into Hallows she gets before she trots this fucker out on us one last time.

It's interesting when I stumble across a review that I clearly wrote while stoned. Today it's Ocean's 12. Good review overall but... man, slippery!