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And it's not because i'm afraid to see what happens after Elizabeth planted a stack of 7 Redcoat and at least 13 Cavalry units (i say "at least" because the stack ends in an ellipsis) just outside a city i took from her some turns ago (which, in a strange coincidence, is named "Teoihuacan"; i am playing the Aztecs, so how did she end up founding a city with an Aztec name? way i see it, she was asking me to capture it!); i presume that after she's done with that, she'll probably go on to fully remove the rest of my presence from the continent she inhabits. I hope i can delay her, sue for peace, and get on with maybe shooting for Alpha Centauri before time ends.

Anyway, the real reason i'm not playing is that i want to get a hold of my free time so i can get back to writing (both e&tg and the proto-novel) and reading (since i came back from Las Vegas and finished Pratchett's Thud! and James Rollins's Sandstorm, i've started reading a few pages of the following books but then stopped: Sideways, The Name of the Rose, A Fire Upon the Deep, A Confederacy of Dunces [reread]).

In other news, Kim and i saw Murderball last night and it was quite good. Tonight we met vito_excalibur and had dinner with her and palecur and amywithani at the local Colombian joint (they were out of Colombian beer! WTF!).

But no writing tonight. Now, bed.

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I think the ACoD movie project died well before the hurricane. I heard for a while that Jack Black was in the running to play Ignatius Reilly, but Will Ferrell eventually got the part (which I don't think would have been right, but never mind), then the whole thing fell through.

I thinking that Jon Lovitz would've been perfect as Ignatius. Or a younger (and alive) Oliver Reed, maybe.

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Re: A Confederacy of Dunces

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