Thursday
I went to Chris’ this afternoon and sated my plastic crack addiction. We played a 300-point game; it was only the second time that I’ve played the actual game. And he cleaned my clock. Handily. But I had fun. We also wound up trading a few pieces; he gave me an Invisible Woman (veteran) figure from the “Clobbering Time” release… which is no longer in production. (Her rookie and experienced figures.)

Then it was off to pick up , run a couple of errands, and back home for dinner and CSI. Tonight was an “encore presentation” of the episode where the classic CSI team was broken up; I hadn’t seen it before. It explains a lot. Then I watched the new Law & Order: Trial By Jury. I like the concept; it was decidedly different than the other L&O shows.

News
Morning Edition: San Francisco Considers Cable Car Price Hike
    (Not what I want to hear three weeks before I go there…)
Morning Edition: Amputee Wounded in Iraq to Return to Active Duty
Morning Edition: Senate Ponders Increase in Minimum Wage
Morning Edition: Reconsidering the ‘Broken Windows’ Theory
Day to Day: How Death Valley Got Its Name
Day to Day: Is There Life After Reality TV?
All Things Considered: Performing Arts: How We Got Here

Stray Toasters

  • We saw a flying Green Lantern toy while we were out this evening. It was oddly fascinating. It’s not quite a “covet,” but it would make a nice addition to the collection.
  • : Waid and Kitson’s Dream Girl… and Cinescape’s review of LSH #3
  • Speaking of Waid, Kitson and Issue #3, they have managed to bring together two of my favorite things: The Legion and Schoolhouse Rock!
  • I stumbled across this afternoon. I’m wasn’t sure whether to laugh, cry or both… but I couldn’t stop looking. It was like a bizarre trainweck.
  • Atari Force. It started as an insert in … I can’t remember which game, but I think that it was Yar’s Revenge and subsequent issues of the insert/comic appeared in other games. A couple of years later, Atari Force, the DC comic was released. And I collected it for about 2 years, if I remember correctly.
  • *** COVET ***
  • By way of boingboing.net: The coming crackdown on blogging
  • The Joker’s boner.
    I don’t have a joke here. No. Really, I don’t.
    But, you can find more out-of-context comics panels here.

  • : Click here and here.
  • Humping Robodogs. Um… yeah.
  • To quote : “Sweet zombie Jesus!” The “Legacy” expansion of DC Heroclix is out… and there are more Legionnaires in it: Kid Quantum and Wildfire. I still need to get a Saturn Girl from “Cosmic Justice” to go with my other Legionnaires.
  • What happens when you cross George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie? Other than “a mess,” you get something that looks like this. Broadband recommended. You can thank (or blame) for this one.
  • : Click here. I don’t think that you’ll need much, if any, direction past that.

Namaste.