Tuesday
Just another day in the neighborhood.

Song of the Day

  • She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult
  • Sanctified by Nine Inch Nails

Stray Toasters

  • Thanks to the lovely , I woke up to this link. That is NOT the first thing that I had expected to see after getting out of bed. It wasn’t in the Top 13,683,729,650 things, either.
  • The following comments were culled from Comic Book Resources. They interviewed members of the comic book community about some of the things that their teachers/professors had said and done to inspire them, I found this one to be amusing :

    BRAD MELTZER – Green Arrow writer and real-world novelist

    Ms. Morris – eighth grade English teacher – Highland Oaks Junior High School, Florida (1983) to a young, fresh-from-New-York smart-assed know-it-all Brad Meltzer:
    “What the hell are you talking about?” Brad asks.
    “What’d you just say?” Ms. Morris shoots back.
    “What the hell are you–” Brad begins.
    “Did you just swear in my class?” she interrupts
    Brad looks around, not realizing “hell” is a “swear.”     (C’mon, in Brooklyn it wasn’t).
    “What the hell–”
    “What’d I tell you about swearing?”
    Brad’s still dumbfounded. “What…the…[beat…beat…beat]… Is hell a swear?”

    She despised my ass. And thus, a writer was born.

    …and this, about the highly successful…

    ROB LIEFELD – writer/artist and Image Comics co-founder

    Mr. Genberg – Art 3 teacher – Whittier Christian high school (1985)
    “Needs to expand his interests outside of comic books, explore advertising and design work. Questionable future in comic illustration.”

    I wonder if these people ever have the urge to go back to their old alma maters, track down their former teachers and say (in what ever manner appeals to them): “Now, what was this that you said about me lacking focus and wanting to write/draw comics for a living…?”

  • Thanks to for passing this along.
  • They have made a TV movie about Three’s Company; it airs on NBC on Friday. One question comes to mind: WHY?! From the looks of the teaser/commercial, it’s a look “behind the scenes” at all of the angst-ridden moments about which the viewing public was unaware. I think that I’ll take my chances and remain unaware. Blissfully.
  • : Just glad to be able to help. And now, I have a good story to share with the rest of the cape-and-cowl crowd when next we gather to foil our archenemies’ next nefarious scheme!
  • Suicidal mocha story. Hmm. That might make an interesting band name, too.
  • posted a link that worried me. It worried me because the writer wrote about how cool it was that the Trojan Horse worked just as well as the “Trojan Rabbit” in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. *boggle* Ancient Greek history vs. a fictionalized account of a mythic/legendary English king. And, unless there was a retraction that I missed, he seemed to think that the Rabbit really did precede the horse (which is not the same as putting the cart before the horse… or even Descartes before the horse, although it WOULD impress me if a horse was able to grasp Calculus). It speaks poorly of the state of public education in America. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy Monty Python as much as the next person (maybe every third person, I don’t have the statistics in front of me)… but has “classical history” been relegated to mythology? I truly hope not, although the song History Will Teach Us Nothing, by Sting, does come to mind.
  • Lady Godiva. Not the song; nor the chocolatier.

And that’s all the news from Lake Wobegon Lake Saline for tonight.

Namaste.