Lights Out for the Holidays (and some thoughts on Philip K. Dick)
Ths will be my last blog entry until Januaray. Kai and Maria left yesterday for Denver, and I’m following them tomorrow. We’ll be staying with her folks for the holidays. I’m looking forward to skiing again for the first time in at least 10 years! I think we’ll end up having to rent a freight truck to bring back all the presents they’ll give Kai 
My reading material for the flight is Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, which is currently being adapted into a film. This will be the 8th story of his that has been made into a movie (I believe the list should include a 9th - it’s my guess that The Truman Show was “inspired by” Time Out of Joint). The movie adaptations generally steal the concepts of his stories and use them as hooks, and then just layer standard action/thriller storylines on top. But I’m not a purist - most of them have been enjoyable films, even if they’re not faithful to the source material - and it’s good to see my favorite author getting some recognition. A Scanner Darkly is being hyped as faithful to the book, so I’m particularly intrigued to see how it turns out (after I finish the book, of course!).
