The African Queen

Last night was pretty quiet. I was reading my new comic-books that I bought yesterday afternoon. One that was interesting that I had got kind of at random was Li'l Depressed Boy, about a human-sized living ragdoll who behaves like a kind of teenage hipster and his attempts to date a kind of punk girl (all the other characters in the book are human, and the act that the main character is a living ragdoll is never commented on and seems to be seen as neither unusual or surprising). The humour and style is very similar to the Scott Pilgrim books.

Today I had a quiet morning, and in the afternoon I went out to see a re-release of the 1951 movie The African Queen, directed by John Huston. The film is set in German East Africa in 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, and involves an English missionary (played by Katherine Hepburn) whose brother died after a German raid on the village where they were working. The very prim and proper missionary teams up with a tough, rough-and-ready captain (played by Humphrey Bogart), who captains a small run-down boat called the "African Queen". She demands that they sail down a long and extremely dangerous river in order to sabotage an enemy gunboat. It's a really fun film and very entertaining. It was one of my Gran's favourite movies. She pretty much loved anything to do with Humphrey Bogart. The movie is reviewed over at Permanently Weird.

The national census forms came this evening, so I filled them out on the internet. It saves time that way.