Scooter Chronicles

For our anniversary yesterday, Marcia and I headed out to the movies and saw “Stardust”, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman.

From Fandango’s site, here is a description of the plot:

To win the heart of Victoria (Sienna Miller), a beautiful but cold object of his desire, a young man named Tristan (Charlie Cox) ventures into the realm of fairies to retrieve a fallen star. What Tristan finds, however, is not a chunk of space rock, but a striking girl named Yvaine (Claire Danes). However, Tristan is not the only one seeking the star. A king’s four sons need the star as they vie for the throne....

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While on vacation in Virginia, I read “Martin Sloane” by Michael Redhill.

From Publishers Weekly via Amazon.Com, here is this plot description:

Martin Sloane, the protagonist of Redhill’s elegant debut, is an Irish-born Canadian who makes dioramas from “found objects.” Among these chanced-upon entities is the book’s narrator herself, Jolene Iolas, a Bard undergrad who happens upon Martin’s work and falls in love with the artist. Their affair lasts several years, until one day Martin purposefully and inexplicably vanishes. Achingly sweet in its execution,...

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One of the good things about the place we stayed at on vacation compared to the place the previous two times was the having a DVD player. So while there, Marcia and I watched “A Scanner Darkly” (thanks to her sister Paula bringing it), based on the Philip K. Dick’s novel of the same name, and starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, and Rory Cochrane.

From Amazon.Com, here is a description of the movie plot:

The drug war’s been lost, citizens are kept under rigid surveillance by holographic scanning recorders, and a schizoid addict...

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