Random Access

Thursday – 23 July 2009
Welcome to NBN Thursday/Technical Friday.

Last night, SaraRules and I watched High Noon. Both of us enjoy Westerns, but neither of us had seen it. (My father was even surprised when I mentioned that I hadn’t seen it.) After dinner, we settled in to watch it. The story revolved around Will Kane, Marshall of a small town named Hadleyville. On his last day as Marshall – and the day of his wedding – he learns that Frank Miller, the man who ruined The Spirit he sent to prison five years earlier, has been freed… and is coming back to town for vengeance. Marshall Kane has to decide between leaving town with his bride or staying to take on Miller and his cronies. Both SaraRules and I agree that it was an excellent film.

I also picked up yesterday’s four-color shwag. I’m planning on writing up a comprehensive Four-Color Coverage tomorrow – it will cover the last four or five weeks – but let me just synopsize as follows:

• Green Lantern #44 – Wow.
• Legion of 3 Worlds #5 (of 5) – Also “wow.” I’m looking forward to the restart of Adventure Comics next month.
• Power Girl #3 – Fun.

Stray Toasters

• I don’t think that I mentioned that my JLU: Legion figures showed up a couple of days ago. This, of course, means that I need to rearrange shelves in the display cases.
• Obama: Police who arrested professor ‘acted stupidly’
• ‘Do the Right Thing’ still has something to say
• I’ll be getting my Mac pony from Stephanie tonight.
• Speaking of Stephanie, she has mentioned that she thinks that making ponies for other Corps sounds interesting. I told her that if she were to make them, I’d find them a good home.
• By way of MarknTyme: Another Brick in the Wall-E? Pixar meets Pink Floyd
• posted a link to this. So true, so true…

  

• Think about the reasons you’re here now
  Think about the choices you can’t explain
  Think about the reasons you’re here now
  Think about the reasons you like the rain…
• Blunt force trauma. It works.
• Maxwell Takes Soul Back to Basics
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: Brit photographer who shot demolition of flyover arrested for terrorism
• Name that TV show: “I want to build a spaceship, go to the moon, salvage all the junk that’s up there, bring it back, sell it.”
• Mariachis covering unlikely songs

Right on to the friction of the day…

Namaste.