Why we didn't run into you at Word on the Street

[moon_custafer]

So as some of you know, green_trilobite’s balance has been worse than usual of late, and last Saturday he started complaining of double vision, so Sunday morning I put my foot down and took him to emergency – note to any Americans reading this – if a fortysomething patient gets brought in with these symptoms there’s no waiting; thank you Canadian healthcare system. OTOH, the looked-rather-amusingly-like-a-tv-doctor resident couldn’t actually find anything on the tox screen or the ct scan, so we’re left with the knowledge that it’s probably nothing serious, we’re just not sure what. Will try lowering meds slightly.


In other news, watched Edward G. Robinson in The Red House, which was pretty atmospheric and probably deserves a remake, although they might need to add a few more plot twists for a modern audience

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Best of luck to you both with finding the right combination/level of medication, guys.

Yeah, The Red House--if I'm thinking of the right film--is an interesting little fairytale, similar in tone to things like Curse of the Cat People (which isn't really about monsters, so much, as loneliness and the failure to adjust to societal standards of "normalcy"), The Reflecting Skin or even Night of the Hunter. You don't see a lot of those anymore, maybe because there are so many horrible things your neighbors might actually be guilty of at any given time that the whole "child misconstrues cues due to imagination/need" is a trope which has fallen by the wayside. Or that kids and adults are now only supposed to ever interact with each other inside of really restricted parameters, anyhow.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

One thing that got me was that, intentionally or not, the so-called normal kid's relationship with his mother struck me as a bit weird and incestuous too, although less so in that he was encouraging her to marry the guy who'd been courting her for years.

Also, Rory Calhoun approaching Julie London in a remote place and asking her to...buy a government bond for him.
; )

[benet.livejournal.com]

Glad nothing appears to be seriously wrong!

By the way, I should get you guys' snail-mail address, in case of coming across interesting Derleth/Roy Chapman Andrews tchotchkes, as they are both Local Boys Made Good.