Art of the Odd

…and I missed so much awesome stuff because of it.

My friend Oslowe pointed out today that the first of the month is when Netflix lists its new Watch Instantly films, so of course I wandered over to look.

“Ooh!” I said. And “Ooh” again. And then I realized something. Some of the films I was “oohing” over were films I’d tried to watch when I was a kid, and turned off because the effects were terrible. Stop-motion? Oh, ick. Giant matte paintings with thick black lines around the actors in front of them? Spare me. Guy in a rubber monster suit? Oh, God no. (Unless it was that one Italian horror flick where all you ever saw of the suit was a clawed, scaly hand, accompanied by a red flash and some heavy breathing. I was okay with that.)

In short, I missed out on a whole wonderful world of dreck, and another wonderful world of imaginative adventure, because I couldn’t get past the bad effects.

Flash forward a couple of decades or so, and I’m married to an Emmy-award winning visual effects technical supervisor, and I can’t wait to cozy up with Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing.

Go figure.

I just looked up from my knitting and saw it was after midnight. “I haven’t blogged today!” I said to NovySan. “And it’s after midnight!”

“Not in Hawai’i,” he said.

So consider this my Hawaiian post.

Also, I have no pants on.

Though I am wearing socks.

Macaroni and cheese.

With Italian sausage.

And organic veggies.

And chipotle peppers in adobo sauce.

All baked with a crust of breadcrumbs and shredded cheese.

Hey, I didn’t say it was good for you.

I just said it was good.