I’m not sure which cat it was – most likely Sissy – but one of them hopped up on the bed at 8:57 this morning. I exited The Dreaming long enough to acknowledge the following:

  • I was no longer asleep.
  • It was bright outside (and, to a lesser degree, inside the room).
  • There was a cat standing on the bed next to my legs.

…and then I rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up around 11:30 and decided to get the day going. I played around on the computer for a bit and then got ready to go out.

I went to Borders and did some drawing. met me there and we sat, chatted and looked through books and magazines. After a conversation with a few days ago, I’ve wanted to do a picture featuring a Serra Angel (1, 2, 3) and/or a pic with Dawnstar (1, 2, 3), from the Legion of Super Heroes. I found a reference that I liked and started work on the Serra pic. It needs work. I’m going to use this as a base, but I’m probably going to wind up starting over – that’s fine with me. It’s good training and it builds character.

, , , , Larry, Mycah and I saw Day After Tomorrow for our Sunday fare. It was fun. Not a “great” movie, but I liked the effects. Roland Emmerich really has an eye for blowing things up… or in this case: “freezing things over.” The special effects were good. The dialogue was way over the top in spots , but you make allowances for some things. And they tried a few means of tugging at the audience’s heartstrings, too. *sniff* It’s a mid- to upper-“Cool World-Long Kiss Goodnight Scale” movie, but it wasn’t too painful to watch. There were a few interesting trailers that preceded the movie, as well: Hero, I, Robot and Collateral.

We followed up the movie with dinner at Cafè Med and after-dinner coffee at Greenhouse Effect. There was a group at Greenhouse who were answering random Trivial Pursuit questions; we started chiming in answers sporadically. They didn’t seem to mind too much. And, and : Stop giving me shit for knowing that tomatoes are not part of a Big Mac and that the Care Bears live in Care-a-Lot.

Stray Toasters

  • : The Legion Movie That Might Have Been!
  • The Single Man’s Guide to TV Dinners
  • TechTV is no more.
    Now, it’s G4TechTV.
    While a few TechTV shows seemed to have survived the transition (they could have dumped Unscrewed and I wouldn’t have cared), there seems to be more of an emphasis on gaming. I’ll give the “new” channel a chance before I write it off completely.

  • 100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know
  • g0t emulators?
    By way of Backwash: Download Any Emulator for Any OS

  • Were you a fan of Joust, Defender or Spy Hunter? You can now play these games, and seven others, on the Midway Games website. Just click on the “Play Classic Games” link (on the left side of the screen).
  • As I mentioned a while back, there’s a new Firestorm in the DCU. And by “new,” I don’t just mean they brought the title back. I mean that the protagonist is not Ronnie Raymond, the first teenager (along with Professor Martin Stein) to be brought into the Firestorm matrix. In fact, there’s no mention of Raymond or Stein, so far; Dan Jolley, the title’s author, says that the changes will be explained in a few months. I’m hoping that this doesn’t fan another “Who’s Better…?” rift among DC Comics fans in the same manner as the Kyle Rayner/Hal Jordan debate among Green Lantern fans.

And, as it is after midnight:


Happy Memorial Day

Time to go peruse my new issue of GamePro and call it a night.

Namaste.