Wednesday: Coda
After work, I came home to see if my Dark Phoenix had arrived. It hadn’t.

Forlorn and dejected, I left to run some errands. When the errands were done, I headed to Dr. Volt’s for a little Wednesday afternoon retail therapy. Exerting near-Green Lantern-like willpower, I managed to avoid buying yet another brick. Actually, it wasn’t even that much of a challenge – I looked at the brick, shrugged and just walked on. But that doesn’t sound nearly as dramatic.

Before heading home, I stopped in to see SaraRules’ family. We talked about movies. And the upcoming camping trip. And laptops. And how to install RAM into Pegasus. And stuff.

Coming around I-215, I had an apostrophe epiphany as to what I wanted for dinner: Pizza. When I got home, I dialed up the local Papa Johns and ordered some bring-it-to-me goodness.

Stray Toasters

  • I have started listing my extra HeroClix lots. Finally. We’ll see how they fare.
  • Because it continues to make me laugh:

    What’s a Nubian?

  • Both Dwim and sent me links to pictures and videos of Janos Baranyai’s unfortunate accident at the Beijing Olympics. They are NOT pretty. I asked if this qualified Mr. Baranyai to be the new face of “The Agony of Defeat.” He said that it did not:

    : no way
    : this is too short of an OW OW OW moment
    : the agony of defeat was more strung out and lasted a while as he plummeted
    me: Couldn’t they just show it over and over in replay?
    : think about it tho
    : have you ever thought “OW!!!” when watching the former? this one made me cringe
    : can’t have people cringing
    me: I don’t know that I thought “OW” for AoD.
    me: Definitely “Daaaaaaaaamn”
    me: And no cringing.
    me: http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/gif/omnomnombleeahchav.gif
    : see now that guy just deserved it
    me: So, this is a case of “Double dumb-ass on you.”
    me: The lifter is… just “Oh, damn. Sorry, guy?”
    : on the first, yes, i agree with the colorful metaphor
    : on the second, it’s more of a DAAAAYUM…

    I then asked him about the lip-synching and George Lucas-esque “enhancement” of the opening ceremony fireworks display. He wasn’t surprised. He said that “…EVERYTHING is about image. It’s all about the collective face… everything has its base in ‘how will this look.’ And the thing is, they don’t care collectively how their own people view them, it’s all about everyone else.”

  • CCI: Legion of Super-Heroes 50th Anniversary
  • MarknTyme: Check this out. My friend, , just got back from the Level II course. I thought it looked like something that might interested you.

Namaste.