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Date: 2004-05-18 08:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-18 09:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-18 09:32 am (UTC)And don't you just LOVE Eugene?
-G. Gentile
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Date: 2004-05-18 09:40 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-18 10:23 am (UTC)I can say that I am starting to use my rowing machine again. I can't say it's fun.
One of the cool things in the works is my filk CD, which you already helped me immensely with by providing SuperJam. There's something else you could do to help if you wanted to, but I'll email you about that.
Good thing or bad thing?
Re: Good thing or bad thing?
Date: 2004-05-18 10:51 am (UTC)Re: Good thing or bad thing?
Date: 2004-05-18 01:02 pm (UTC)Re: Good thing or bad thing?
Re: Good thing or bad thing?
Date: 2004-05-18 01:09 pm (UTC)Re: Good thing or bad thing?
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Date: 2004-05-18 06:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-18 01:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-05-19 06:27 am (UTC)AAAGGHH!! HELP!! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CARROTS!!
Date: 2004-05-18 01:32 pm (UTC)How 'bout yourself?
Re: AAAGGHH!! HELP!! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH CARROTS!!
Date: 2004-05-19 02:35 am (UTC)C'mere, giant snail! C'mere!
Date: 2004-05-19 10:10 am (UTC)Hmmm
Date: 2004-05-18 06:39 pm (UTC)Re: Hmmm
Date: 2004-05-19 02:33 am (UTC)Badger badger badger badger
Poke Spoon, Poke Spoon
Badger badger badger badger
Badger badger badger badger
Poke Spoon, Poke Spoon
Cica-a-a-a-a-a-ada....
Re: Hmmm
Date: 2004-05-22 08:31 pm (UTC)And if you've not the first clue what we're on about, rent Eddie Izzard's "Dress to Kill" (though if you rent the DVD, skip the first chapter, which is a fairly unfunny SF travelogue of sorts, and go directly to "City of Snakes" where the show begins).
A tour through Chernobyl
Date: 2004-05-18 11:13 pm (UTC)A young woman on a motorcycle, who's father is a nuc physicist arranged permission for her to enter Chernobyl area and tour about.
she got pictures and everything.
take a look here: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm
Re: A tour through Chernobyl
Date: 2004-05-19 02:24 am (UTC)Re: A tour through Chernobyl
Date: 2004-05-19 11:02 am (UTC)These pics really brought to mind me and the wife's recent visit to Centralia, PA (a ghost town on a still-burning mine fire that started in 1961,) only on a dramatically larger scale.
Those are some damned loud photos...
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:47 am (UTC)1) I just added you to my friendslist, because it seemed like a fun thing to do. Am at large a great fan (no pun intended - hey, wait...) of filkers with livejournals.
2) Do you have any idea why Warren Ellis should be writing Ultimate Fantastic Four? I thought maybe you'll know. Everyone else I asked is at a loss. That by way of completely random fannish things.
Here endth ze comment *bows**disappears*.
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Date: 2004-05-19 02:32 am (UTC)2. Dunno. Having been completely reenergized on FF by Mark Waid, I picked up the first four issues of UFF... and dropped it in disgust. Victor Van Damme? Interdimensional "waves" or whatever rather than cosmic rays? Hapless bystanders rather than explorers of the unknown? There's "reinventing" or "reimagining", and then there's making, or goofing, shit up.
In the same vein, who told Chuck Austen that Superman should sound and act like Hawkeye? Or that any/i> news organization would demote a writer who's won as many awards as Kent supposedly has? (There may be some cogent explanation in Austen's second issue. I have no idea, because the first issue so put me off.)
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:06 am (UTC)2. Amen to that! I mean, heck, the entire Ultimate concept grinds on my nerves, but this one tops everything. Isn't Ellis supposed to be one of the industry good guys? He's better off getting Planetary released faster. It's like he's taken every fun thing about that comic and botched it (come on, can you picture "VAN DAMME" in a huge fear-me speech buble?)
3. From what I hear, Chuck Austen failed to deliver on Avengers (which I dropped after Busiek, so I wouldn't reallt know), so I'm a bit wary about any of his stuff. But having never read Superman, I fear I can't really comment. Maybe they're trying to make Supes hip and cool for the new generation of readers. You know, the ones who want bad girls for fanboys *grumble*.
... sorry if this turned into a rant. Exchanging comics tidbits with Tom Smith just goes pretty high on my awesome-things-to-do list *sheepish*.
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Date: 2004-05-19 04:31 am (UTC)2. I actually do like Ultimate Spider-Man and The Ultimates, although one issue of Ultimate Adventures was enough to make me bang my head against the wall -- "Hey! Let's do a really lame Batman rip-off, using the same gimmick as the MST3K movie Prince of Space!" -- but I thought the idea was to update, not change all the rationale.
3. Haven't read Avengers in a long, long time. (Thought Busiek did very good work with Perez on JLA/Avengers, though.) Austen has always been hit-or-miss, and this is from someone who remembers the flamewars and temper tantrums that he had in his letter columns in Strips.
... Nothing to apologize for. That's why we have open threads. :) And I'm delighted to twitch over comics -- I don't get many chances these days.
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Date: 2004-05-19 09:20 am (UTC)Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 10:25 am (UTC)Anyhoo, Ultimate titles = I haven't gotten into any of them except Ultimate Spider-Man. I was hesitant to pick up #1 because Byrne (Shoebox pauses to puke) had just completed a horrendous update of Spidey's origin a few months before and I didn't really see the need for yet another update. But I was very glad I checked it out. I guess it pissed off some people who just wanted to see Peter in the gawddanged suit, but I thought it was incredibly well done and added depth to characters that were thoroughly one-dimensional in the original story and most re-tellings. I actually gave a crap this time when Uncle Ben was killed. Aunt May actually reacted to it. And Peter's interactions at high school (a high point of the original series and one of the things that made it so easy to relate to Spider-Man in the first place) have just been fantastic. The series slips here and there...you can almost tell when Bendis has been told to rush things, and the Team-Up series was massive overkill. But I look forward to this book more than most every month.
Oh, and it's a lot easier to appreciate Bagley's art this time around, since he's not just "the replacement for the replacement for Todd McFarlane. :)
Gawd. I just realized that I never talk about comics any more, despite the fact that I still collect religiously. This is actually the first time I've typed anything about USM in any manner of forum. Odd.
Re: Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 10:56 am (UTC)Nowadays, I'm getting a few mainstream comics -- JMS's Amazing Spider-Man Waid's Fantastic Four now and then Ultimate Spider-Man -- but mostly picking up select indys: PVP Online and Liberty Meadows, the occasional Tom Strong and The League, Linsner's Dawn (hell, yeah, for the art, whaddaya think), Phil Foglio's Girl Genius, and (whenever he comes out with it) Judd Winick's The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius. I thought Gaiman's 1602 was interesting, but I'm not sure about it -- perhaps if I reread it all at once. But it seemed much more a "paycheck" project than I'm used to from Gaiman. DC's Elseworlds stretch much, much more (although I wish they'd do more with characters besides Superman, Batman, and to an extent Wonder Woman; they've done a few Green Lantern, and some with the teams, but think of what they could do with Green Arrow or Doctor Fate). Who knows, maybe Marvel will start doing something Elseworldish -- What If was a love-hate thing, but when it was good it was very, very good.
Re: Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 11:56 am (UTC)One of my favorite comics memories is the issue of What If...? where a radioactive Peter Parker bit a poor little spider.
One of my least favorite comics memories is the What If...? where Chris Claremont is desperately trying to rationalize killing off Jean Grey/Dark Phoenix. [Yes, I know it was really Jim Shooter's fault, but then he gets blamed for so much.] It seemed like every few years, his conscience would collapse under all the flak, and he'd write yet another alt-universe story proving how "inevitable" it all was - "Jean's nobler side led to her punishment" or some such rot. My one consolation with the whole resurrection of Jean was how it totally invalidated his "greatest" storyline. So of _course_ Claremont had a vendetta against Storm - he had to continually resist the urge to kill her off to further justify himself. ;)
The Imperfect Storm
Date: 2004-05-19 12:14 pm (UTC)With no apparent effect on the character.
And then she spends one night carousing with Wolverine's ex Yukio, and goes punk. Boy, that Yukio is a bad influence. Or Claremont, left to his own devices (this was all after Byrne had left), is a bad writer.
Re: The Imperfect Storm
Date: 2004-05-19 07:52 pm (UTC)You know, I was doing just fine until you mentioned "impregnated by a cheap Alien ripoff". *shudder*
Re: Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 01:10 pm (UTC)On an unrelated note, I miss Marvel's New Universe (particularly D.P.7) and I don't care who knows it. :)
Re: Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 01:25 pm (UTC)It might also have to do with the fact that I stopped reading titles and started reading specific writers instead. The X-trauma got me off following any series properly forever. With one or two exceptions. I shall now pimp one excepton like there's no tomorrow, because it's one I think you'll really appreciate: it being Warren Ellis' Planetary.
By the by, I keep seeing TPs of Mage and wondering if I should get one... mostly I can't get past the World of Darkness vibe of the title and the, err, baseball bat, but it's probably my bad. Yes, no, hm?
Re: Hehe
Date: 2004-05-19 01:46 pm (UTC)And, trust us on the baseball bat. It's worth it all.
(World of Darkness? This predates White Wolf by years. Think Joseph Campbell, maybe filtered through Will Eisner.)
Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh, Heh
Date: 2004-05-19 10:58 am (UTC)WTF...?
Date: 2004-05-19 01:05 pm (UTC)Andy Kaufman Returns After 20 Years (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040519/234/726q1.html)
Re: WTF...?
Date: 2004-05-19 01:21 pm (UTC)Where are Penn, Teller, and The Amazing Randi when you need 'em?
Re: WTF...?
Date: 2004-05-20 06:03 am (UTC)http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp
Not to go off on a rant, but...
Date: 2004-05-19 02:07 pm (UTC)God Bless America!