"Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself."

“Please tell me you're not one of Toulouse's oh so talented, charmingly bohemian, tragically impoverished writers?” Satine, Moulin Rouge

I did it. I got my butt in gear yesterday and did some writing. Mostly I transcribed from my notebook, but then I added a bit more and ended up with a word count of 627. Nothing awe-inspiring, I admit, but a heck of a lot better than nothing at all. I’ve got about 3,500 more words to go by this weekend so that I can turn in a decent submission for the Writer’s Group so Jayne doesn’t get mad at me. She said she would have a submission this month, too. I hope she doesn’t wimp out on me, then I’d have to give her a lot of grief.

Speaking of Jayne…Jayne (not my friend) is a character from the show Firefly. He’s an uncouth mercenary type who is designed to always do the wrong/inappropriate thing and who people immediately love because of it.

Jayne: "Well I don't like the idea of someone hearing what I'm thinking."

Inara: "No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking."

Last night my guy called me and said that on the game GuildWars there is a special baddie named Jayne who drops a unique item, a hammer named Vera. How do ya like that, Browncoats?

Movie Review: This post definitely has a prostitution theme. I promise, it wasn’t intentional. Adding to it, the movie I watched yesterday, Dangerous Beauty. It’s about a courtesan named Veronica Franco (played by Catherine McCormack), a real woman who lived in Venice from 1546-1591. The plot starts with introducing the love interest, a senator named Marco Venier (Rufus Sewell). She’s not rich enough to marry him, so her mom suggests another way of having him. The setting is gorgeous, the costuming well-done, the acting is good, and there are wonderful lines, like when Maffio Venier (Oliver Platt) says to Veronica, “It must be interesting to be in a room full of men, most of whom you've seen with their pants down.” The big climax gets a bit cheesy, but they earned a bit of melodrama there. The historical details are interesting, as are the bits of Franco’s poetry they use as voiceover.