The Librarian

I ended up on TNT’s marketing list, I guess, because out of the blue a couple of weeks ago I received a press kit for their upcoming original movie The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines, which airs in early December, along with a screener DVD of the movie. I remembered seeing most of the first Librarian movie while working out at the gym several months ago. It stars Noah Wyle as an Indiana Jones-style character who has 22 degrees and saves the world on a regular basis. My wife and I finally found some time to watch the DVD a couple of nights ago.

The movies are good, clean, light fun, mildly on the campy side, but they have Bob Newhart in them, which is always a plus. Jane Curtain, too. If you’re looking for something totally inane to while away an evening, check it out. Thinking back on Raiders of the Lost Ark, it’s astonishing how far SFX have come since then, to the extent that things that were gee-whiz in that movie are now fodder for a made-for-TV film.

I started from scratch on my Storytellers Unplugged essay, which will go live at 5:30 am tomorrow (Central, 6:30 Eastern, 7:30 Atlantic¹). Came up with something this morning that seems more pertinent to the month and more focused than the meandering ramble I’d been working on previously. I’ll save the ramble for another day. Hope you check it out.

I finished the “Friday” section of the novel in progress and got a start on “Saturday” this morning. I’m now exactly at NaNoWriMo pace and hope to get ahead of the game in the next several days so that I can coast without doing much over the upcoming long weekend.