The trailer for Casshern looks pretty fucking amazing. Thankfully welcomerain over on LJ produced a translation of some of the web site for the movie.

While I was showing that trailer to a friend, he pointed me at one for a french film called Immortal that has that same kind of look. Hopefully both of these will get some kind of release in the US.

As I mentioned earlier, my grandmother died a week ago last Saturday. Since these things don’t stay live on the web forever I decided to reproduce it here.

Evelyn Mary (Czapkowski) Wehrly

WEHRLY, Evelyn Mary (Czapkowski): Evelyn Mary (Czapkowski) Wehrly, 84, died Saturday, (February 21, 2004) at Avery Heights. She was the widow of James Herman Wehrly. Born in Hartford, August 24, 1919 daughter of the late Vincent and Agnes (Stolarz) Czapkowski. Evelyn grew up in Hartford, graduating in the Class of 1937 from Hartford Public High School. Trained as a secretary, she held several positions, beginning with her first job at the Department of Labor, and going on to serve as a legal secretary to Walter Downes and Albert Nevins. She retired after working as an executive secretary at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. For many years Evelyn and Jim lived in Hartford and Glastonbury, moving to Norfolk, VA in 1973. A devout Roman Catholic, she was a parishioner of Holy Trinity Church in Norfolk, and was also a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW and the Polish American Society of Tidewater. Evelyn is survived by her daughter, Eleanor Blake and her husband, Dale of Hartford; her son, James Wehrly of Sunset Beach, CA; a grandson, Gregory Blake of Cambridge, MA; two granddaughters, Rebecca Blake of Kennar, LA and Megan Wehrly of Seal Beach, CA; a great grandson, Cameron Casso of Kennar, LA; a sister, Helen McGee of Wethersfield; and a brother, Raymond Czapkowski of Rochester, NY. She was predeceased by a son, Joseph; and a brother, Henry. Evelyn will be remembered for her zest for life, the warmth with which she and Jim welcomed all who entered their home and the wonderful meals that she prepared for them. Her family would like to thank all of her friends from Virginia and Connecticut who have helped out so much during the past few years, and the staff at Avery Heights and The Hospice and Palliative Care of Connecticut VNA sponsored by Masonic Care for the special care provided to her. Friends may call at the Ahern Funeral Home, 180 Farmington Ave., Hartford, TODAY, Feb. 23 from 4-8 p.m. Funeral Procession from the Ahern Funeral Home will be Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 9:15 a.m. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. at the Church of St. Patrick and St. Anthony. Burial will be in Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery, Bloomfield. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Hartford Public High School Alumni Scholarship Association, c/o John Gale, 363 Main St., Hartford, CT 06106.

Published in the Hartford Courant on 2/23/2004.

First off. Rabbit Rabbit. I actually remembered to say it this morning (well, mumble it in a half asleep state). This past weekend I packed up my stuff and moved it to my parent’s place in CT. It’s been a pretty emotionally draining experience, especially since it was combined with my grandmother dying a week before I moved. I want to send a big thank you out to my friends who were able to give me help during the month last month. If it wasn’t for Emily, Brian, Sean, and Chris I wouldn’t have been able to do it. Extra thanks to Chris for helping in the final stretch. I think by the time she left I had lost the ability to be able to think in more two word sentences.

Sunday was a recovery day. I wanted to do a bit more organizing of all my crap, but just couldn’t handle it. So I decided that I’d be starting off fresh with the new month. It feels like I’ve gone through a major spring cleaning of both my stuff and my brain. Now it is time for the spring scrubbing. I’ve started going through my stuff and organizing it by things I’ll need right away when I move again and things that either will stay in storage or just go away. I’d done a bit of it while moving, but it was all pretty overwhelming.

So far I’ve gotten my computer set up in the room I’ll be using when in CT and working on making it a bit of my own place. Next will be to set up a bag of stuff to keep in the car for when I’m up in MA. You folks up in the Boston area won’t be able to get rid of me, because I’ll be up there a lot and am still looking for work up there (and am still maintaining an address too).

Hopefully I’ll be back to posting a little bit more regularly now that this is taken care of. Look forward to some posts of me rediscovering the Hartford area some. At the moment I’m on the lookout for a nice cafe that has wifi access. Hopefully the tea shop down the street from my parents has it.