Saturday, October 15, 2016

Saturday: In hindsight, my plan of "sleep later than expected and then still don't get out of bed" wasn't the best.

I mean, it did mean I got to see this really stupid ad for Coke on twitter.  You don't need Coke to make a banh mi delicious.  You just need to not put cilantro on it.
Eventually I decided on getting chicken.
It is very good chicken.
And I took these too-close shots of their pictures of the old Pali highway to maximize the camera distortion effects.
 I took the long way home, and saw a very nice full moon over the ocean in Waimanalo.
Here it is over Koko Head.

TldrL:
  • Title:  The Shadow over Innsmouth
  • Date:  1931
  • Summary:  A guy goes to Innsmouth to explore, but Innsmouth is filled with half-human/half-sea monster people.  They try to kill him by not running the bus out of town, and then ambushing him in his hotel room, but he gets away from them and has a daring escape from town.  He calls the government, and they go in and kill/imprison the population and bomb the reef where the sea monsters live.  This would be a great place to stop the story, but instead, we learn that the guy has ancestors from Innsmouth, and he's actually turning into a half-human/half-sea monster person as well.  He plans to kill himself, but instead writes the last four paragraphs describing how he's going to go live with the sea monsters and it's just a really odd way to end the story.
  • Real Villain:  Accidentally having sea monsters as ancestors.
  • Last line in italics?  No.
  • Writer writes instead of fleeing?  Yes.  I mean, not technically, but highlighting how you're going to go live with monsters is just so weird.
  • Rating:  6/10.
  • Read it:  Here.
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