Wednesday
Middle of the week and all is well.

I was working online this morning and got tired. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I didn’t go to bed until nearly 4:00 this morning. Naaaaah, that couldn’t be it. So, around noon, I decided to take a short nap. Forty-five minutes of inner eyelid studying bliss. The twins even came upstairs and napped next to me. All-in-all, this was a great idea.

Two hours later, I woke up.

I woke up after the original forty-five minutes… long enough to shut off the alarm and stretch back out. I woke up a couple of other times because of some odd dreams. I don’t remember the content, but I remember being disturbed by them at the time.

The rest of the afternoon was pretty run-of the mill.

Traffic from 22nd West to 27th West between 45th South and 54th South is of the devil. And the Devil is bad… What should take five minutes, at most, took me nearly twenty this evening. And someone at Fuckin’ UDoT needs to get the hint that the intersection of 22nd West and 45th South needs turn signals for north-south traffic. Ass-ninjas.

Jess, and I went to ‘s house to watch the third debate. And eat pizza. And drink beer. Ah, tasty malt beverage… It wasn’t as bad as I feared it would be, but there wasn’t a lot of new ground covered. I was very impressed with some of the off-the-cuff questions that Bob Schieffer asked the candidates, though. There were a couple of good zingers that seemed to catch them off-guard. I liked that. After the debate, introduced us to the home version of DDR. She’s good. Very good.

NPR and Other News
Morning Edition – Viva Las VFW Hall
Talk of the Nation – iPod Radio Owners Create Pirate Stations
All Things Considered – Musicians In Their Own Words: Hillary Hahn
Talk of the Nation – Celebrating New York’s Subway in Film and Song

Stray Toasters

  • My new Lego® catalog arrived today…
  • I’m craving a snack, but not sure what yet. Possibly ice cream. Although popcorn wouldn’t be bad, either. Or gummy worms.
  • brought this gem of human interaction to my attention. Opinions are a good thing. Usually. Differences of opinions can be good, as well. This is basically a train wreck.
  • Wombat doom.
  • Today’s vocabulary word comes from : Whacktarts.
  • She’s the younger sister of Basil Flint, P.I.… and she’s a secret agent.

  • Gleaned from Usenet:

    Subject: Top 10 Least Successful Legionnaires (pre V4)
    From: Jim Davis
    Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.dc.lsh

    10. Bouncing Boy
    Reason: Power too weak for Legion, silliness factor. Consigned to supporting role very early on. Returned to lineup a few times but never for very long.

    Revival Prospects: Fairly low as Legionnaire but a well liked supporting character.

    9. Supergirl
    Reason: Superboy. For whatever reason Supergirl could only flourish in the absence of Superboy. Interestingly, this same dynamic applied in V4. Laurel Gand/Andromeda worked as long as there was no Mon-El/Valor/M’onel around.

    Revival Prospects: High as long as there is no male counterpart to overshadow her.

    8. Quislet
    Reason: Non-humanoid. Non-Humanoid characters are very difficult to do well as human readers have a tough time identifying with them. Gates is the only really successful non-humanoid Legionnaire. The “small spaceship” appearance was also a minus.

    Revival Prospects: Fair. Perhaps in a Wildfire type containment suit to avoid the disadvantages of a non-humanoid appearance.

    7. Blok
    Reason: Non-humanoid. Bland personality.

    Revival Prospects: Poor. Subsequent writers have not seen fit to try. Works better as a villain.

    6. White Witch
    Reason: Magic characters are difficult to do well because it’s difficult to portray their powers consistently. Bland personality.

    Revival Prospects: Fair. Needs a writer who can handle magic well.

    5. Tellus
    Reason: Non-humanoid. Was also handicapped by being Saturn Girl’s replacement. Bland personality.

    Revival Prospects: Very Low. Saturn Girl is the Legion’s “mental” member; no one else need apply.

    4. Magnetic Kid
    Reason: Cosmic Boy. The original is almost invariably preferred to the substitute. Magno in the reboot had the same issue.

    Revival Prospects: Poor. Returned briefly as a Darkseid henchman in V4’s “Quiet Darkness” but that was it.

    3. Matter-Eater Lad
    Reason: Weak and silly power. Bland personality.

    Revival Prospects: I would have bet heavily against it but it has been done quite successfully due in large part to a major personality infusion. I think he works better as a supporting character though.

    2. Chemical King
    Reason: Only his creator, Shooter, understood exactly what his power was. No subsequent writer did. He also joined the Legion at a time when the membership was at its greatest (26) and when it was about to head into the back pages of Action and a couple of years of oblivion. Never really had a shot to establish himself.

    Revival Prospects: Fairly high but no one seems to want to. I’m hoping that he might be the unidentified 20th Legionnaire in Waid’s reboot.

    1. Tyroc
    Reason: Ill-defined power. Anachronistic. We all know this story.

    Revival Prospects: Poor. I was astonished when TMK tried it but then I was astonished at a lot of the things TMK tried.

  • “How do you eat a guy with no teeth?”
    “Pretty much the same way you eat a guy who does have teeth, I guess.”

Quote of the Day

: You can graduate from high school with your thumb up your ass and your eyes poked out.

Namaste.