My first four string units for Talkin' Turkey
I managed to whip out four red string squares yesterday for the Talking Turkey quilt. But today, nothing so far. I got the kitchen cleaned and my bed made--and that's about all. Oh, and the dogs and Jesse fed.
Jesse has a new job starting in a few days. So he went back to the doctor today to have his ankle ex-rayed to make sure he's fit to work. He's walking good now and can drive. So I'm hoping when he returns from the doctor, that he'll have good news of a healing ankle.
One of my favorite things to do in October is watch scary movies. I'm sort of tired of my old standards--"The Shining," "Hocus Pocus" (which is more funny than scary), etc. But last night I found a new-one-to-me called "The Box"--not scary in the sense of monsters, ghosts, vampires, werewolves, etc. I guess you would call it more disturbing than scary. It is based on a 1970 Richard Matheson short story entitled "Button, Button."
Both the story and the movie center around a mysterious stranger and a box he delivers to a young couple, promising they'll receive a large sum of money if they push the button on top of the box. The bad news is, if they push the button, someone somewhere that they don't know will die. Up until the point where the box is delivered the only striking difference in the story and movie is the amount of money promised: $50,000 in the story that was first published in Playboy in 1970, and $1 million in the movie which was released in 2009. I supposed $50,000 was not deemed enough in '09 to temp someone to commit indirect murder.
After the stranger leaves the box and makes the offer, the plots of the two diverge significantly. The story follows a simple, almost Hitchcockian plot, and is very short--too short on which to base an entire movie. So the film maker added something about Martians and getting struck by lightning and space/time portals, and this, that, and the other. Quite complicated, much of which I didn't completely follow. But still a good movie. However, if I had to pick a version as my favorite, it would be Matheson's short story. Check it out if you like weird fiction.
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On 10/27/2016, Jane said ...
Love your red string units. This is the method I used to make my very first quilt (while living in Tehran in 1976 and attending a quilting group sponsored by the American Embassy---yes, THAT American Embassy).
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