“Gorgons. Why did it have to be gorgons…?”
comics and animation, everyday glory, family and friends, games, geekery, human of the day, movies and TV, news and info, office antics July 23rd, 2008Wednesday – 23 July 2008
After getting home from work, I took a relaxing – and somewhat necessary – shower. The last thing I wanted while gaming last night was B.O. It would have just been embarrassing.
Last night’s Scion session was good, if less than entirely productive. We were given our marching orders and set out to act upon them. Maybe we were a little headstrong. Maybe we were a little rash. Maybe it was Maybelline. Whatever it was, we almost got our collective recta handed to us. Fortunately, we all survived long enough to escape and try to come up with something that resembles “a plan” for next time.
I slept rather well last night. I was hoping that would be the case, given the all-day workout I had. I even indulged in a little sleeping in this morning.
Human of the Day
In what I believe to be a first, I am nominating someone under the age of five for Human of the Day. At last night’s game,
The reason that Josh gets the nod for today’s HotD is not only because he was as rapt by the movie as I usually am (although, I have apparently seen the movie enough times to be able to glance at the screen and do dialogue…), but because he would get so excited by the movie that he’d leap out of
As a counterpoint, Nox, ever the Lex Luthor fan, kept reminding Josh and me: “You know that the good guy doesn’t win at the end of this movie, right?”
Stray Toasters
- Adam just called… because he was bored and didn’t feel like doing any work. I’m not sure if I mentioned it previously, but he and Chelsea are expecting a baby this fall/winter; they will find out the baby’s sex this afternoon.
- Church minister shames congregation by dressing as a tramp
- From Broken Frontier: Uncanny X-Memories – this round has a couple of fond remembrances of issues #153 (“Kitty’s Fairy Tale”) and #186 (“LifeDeath: A Love Story”).
- Batman Then and Now: The Cost of Being Bruce Wayne
- More DC Universe Online news… including screenshots
- Tyranist: I know you hate “thriller” as a genre title, but… DC to launch thriller imprint, Vertigo Crime
- Sandman 20th Anniversary Poster
- And tomorrow is Mormon Christmas, as some of us like to call it.
Time to dive in to Storage Room: Day 2.
Namaste.
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