Thursday
It’s been raining and snowing today. Ordinarily, I’d complain about this. But, if it helps to clear the otherwise smog-laden air, then I’m all for it. Aside from last week when we headed up the canyon, I don’t think that I’ve seen the in about a week-and-a-half. It’s getting old.

The morning started with a visit from Kate, Max and Perry. Kate needed to use our connection for an online course that she needed for work. While she did the coursework, Max watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Perry and I delved into game-related geekiness. Perry also brought me a nifty carrying case for my Heroclix paraphernalia… and it’s also just big enough to store the folder in which I keep my tabletop game supplies.

It looks as though all systems are “Go” for and I to see Mirrormask in Park City on Friday. I’m looking forward to it. If I’m not mistaken, this is the first time that I’ve attended a Sundance function since January 1998.

News
Morning Edition: Paris Combo’s Multicultural Motifs
Morning Edition: Student Takes Homework to Court
Day to Day: David Was: Legal Music Downloads on the Web
All Things Considered: Japanese Panel Weighs Possibility of Female Monarch
All Things Considered: Wiggle While You Work: Fidgeting May Fight Fat
(I’m sorry, But I think that would have to be a LOT of wiggling.)
All Things Considered: Oklahoma Lawmaker Eyes Legal Cockfighting
( made a post about this last night. It didn’t make sense then, either.)

BBC News: US staff sacked over smoking ban

Stray Toasters

  • I want a snack… but I’m not sure what I have a taste for.
  • Kudos to for the link to Cows With Guns.
  • DC on Film – a site about upcoming big and small screen adaptations of DC Comics characters.
  • found this on a Bollywood/Hindi music site she frequents. In Nyx’ words: “A few people made a really good point when they said that if anyone had ever made a song in this vein about 9/11, we would have kicked their butts.”

    I’m not advocating The Tsunami Song, which plays in the last couple of minutes of this clip; I find it more than “a tad” offensive. I do, however, support the DJs’ rights to make the song. I also support “Miss Info” ‘s right to opt out of the song. The on-air in-fighting, however, I could have done without.

  • I’m not a fan of Avatar Press, but I will admit that the premise of the upcoming Unholy mini-series is interesting:

    Set in the crummy under-crust of modern day Detroit, Unholy is the story of Penny, a stoner, rebel, teen who is a non-believer in God. After a fatal accident, she’s drafted by God to be His assassin, a God she doesn’t even believe in. As a fallen angel, she is caught in a shadow war waged on city streets, in plain clothes, between Heaven and Hell. With her new found allies, a dominatrix, an ex-mob hit man and an alcoholic priest, she is dumped into the front lines of the war for salvation. But can she even survive her first twenty fours hours as a newborn fallen?

         

  • I am stuck on Band-Aid…
    Cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me!
    Well they hold on tight in the bathtub
    And they cling in soapy suds!
    I am stuck on Band-Aid…
    Cause Band-Aid’s stuck on me!

    I just realized that this jingle could apply to both the adhesive strip and to groupies.

  • suggested that I try the following meme:
    1. Comment with any subject about which you would like to see me rant.
    2. Watch my journal for your rant.
    3. Post this in your own journal, so that you may rant for others.
  • Seeing this article reminded me of the following:

    The Dead Collector: Bring out yer dead.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Here’s one.
    The Dead Collector: That’ll be ninepence.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
    The Dead Collector: What?
    Large Man with Dead Body: Nothing. There’s your ninepence.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not dead.
    The Dead Collector: ‘Ere, he says he’s not dead.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Yes he is.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m not.
    The Dead Collector: He isn’t.
    Large Man with Dead Body: Well, he will be soon, he’s very ill.
    The Dead Body That Claims It Isn’t: I’m getting better.

  • Are you trying to find a special Valentine’s Day (also known as “Loneliness Awareness Day”) gift for your significant other? Well, look no further. This is just the thing for that hard-to-shop-for person.
  • In a comment to yesterday’s post, mentioned that Dr. Seuss wrote erotica. In response to her comment, I wrote this.
  • From howstuffworks.com: Head Trips: How Dreams Work
  • For :

Quote of the Day
I watched “Wake the Dead,” the JLU episode that featured the return of Solomon Grundy… and Hawkgirl. It was interesting to see the dynamic between Shayera and her former teammates. And Vixen, Green Lantern’s new girlfriend.

Grundy was “resurrected” as a mindless engine of destruction through the machinations of some college kids casting a summoning spell. Watching him battle the League to a standstill reminded me of Marvel’s Incredible Hulk: There was no malice in his attack, it was an outlet of simple, primal rage.

As I’ve mentioned many times before, I think that JLU is one of the best-written shows out there. This episode was no exception. A couple of key motifs in this episode were loyalty and sacrifice; they used Hawkgirl’s loyalty to both Grundy and to the League and the sacrifices that she made to/because of both as the foci. And, they were handled very well.

Green Lantern and Vixen, heading to the disaster area that is downtown:

Green Lantern: Dr. Fate called it: Solomon Grundy’s back.
Vixen: The zombie guy? A heavy-hitter; I read about him in the files.
Green Lantern: Yeah, he’s tough, but we can take him. Funny thing is: He’s supposed to be dead.
Vixen: Aren’t all zombies, by definition, dead?
Green Lantern: Umm….

After Hawkgirl, piledrives Grundy into the sewer system with her mace, the Leaguers gather around the impact crater:

Green Lantern: I don’t see him.
Superman: Neither do I. There must be lead in those old sewer pipes.
Vixen: Guy tends to leave a trail. We’ll find him. And then, Pretty Polly can bash him with her magic mace.
Hawkgirl: Why does it hurt him?
Dr. Fate: It’s made of Nth metal. Your people’s technology was developed specifically to repel magical creatures. It disrupts the magic that animates him. The creature knows only rage and seeks only oblivion. Your mace may be the one object on Earth that can grant him peace.
Green Lantern: What are you saying?
Hawkgirl: Your favorite movie’s Old Yeller, you know exactly what he’s saying. Is this my destiny: To be a destroyer? To betray yet another friend?
Dr. Fate: It’s not that simple. It never was.
Vixen: Hey… how about we discuss this for another couple hours? That way, he’s sure to escape.
Aquaman: *to Hawkgirl* Only you have the power to put that creature out of its misery and to stop it before it hurts anyone else.
Green Lantern: You don’t have to, Shayera. I’ll do it for you. Give me the mace.
Hawkgirl: Forget it, John. He was my friend. It’s my responsibility. I’ll do it myself. *flies into the hole*

Namaste.