Nice weekend
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thebitterguyLazy one, too. Yesterday, Cynra and I lollygaged about getting out of bed. Eventually we get ourselves down to the kitchen for breakfast, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
atomiks rang up to say he would be by to work on Cynra's iMac. This, of course, was news to us, but anything to get the old girl humming.
The afternoon was a quiet one, with much goofiness and some video watching.atomiks moved off to visit mr_weasel at work. Eventually, Cynra & I saddled up and headed down to my FNSLCS to pickup some stuff.
New Comics: A Summary!
The comics on my pull list were pretty sparse, so I picked up a few other things, such as Squadron Supreme #1, which reminded me why I quit buying the series, as well as the next couple issues of Nextwave.
Nextwave is starting to get dull; the cheesy Nick Fury's self-loathing is one of the most interesting bits about it. The Fin Fang Foom battle was cute (yes, Warren, we know he's wearing underpants). I can't even remember what happened in issue 3. Oh, wait, evil cyborg cop. Very evil. Not comically so, though. The plot better gel quickly. I would really like to know why I should enjoy reading it.
In a fit of self loathing, I picked up the DP7 special. Fuck, that was a bad idea. Really, what was I thinking? I might still pick up the Nightmask and Spitfire stories, and will get Psi Force, if only because I'm not poor yet.
She Hulk #6 was thankfully enjoyable. The story is an exploration of the "Is Starfox just a creepy date rapist?" idea. For those of you what aint' geeks, Starfox is a member of the Avengers who has the power to make women feel good. And super-strength and flight. He uses his powers to get laid, which is questionable when it's primarily a form of subliminal mind control. The arc's title (Beaus & Eros) is a cute one. I wonder if there's a lawyer equivalent to Polite Dissent?
BTW:luciencarter, you should really be reading PD, as he also talks about House a lot.
So, yes. Mixed bag of comics. Also got another Universe booster for Star Wars, which thankfully had both a new rare (Nien Numb) and a new Big Fig,an Acklay, completing the savage trinity, now seated atop our tv. The three of them, btw, come to 115 points, so they'd be too much for a normal army. Maybe a 150 point, with a couple Geonosian figures to round them out.
Dinner was burritos at Chorizo. I really wish it was closer to home, because then I could eat there more often. The burritos are really quite good.
We then took in The Inside Man, a heist thriller from Spike Lee. Definitely a very clever film. The title doesn't make sense until the final reel, but it's quite interesting. It appears that Kim Diamond is becoming a regular in Spike Lee's movies, and there ain't nothing wrong with that!
Wasn't someone out there going to do a big article on heist films? I could have sworn I remembered reading something about that.
Today was quite. Cynra was off to work to put the last nail in report cards (If anyone would like to abbreviate their lifespan, feel free to say to me that teachers don't work hard), and I spent the day wandering Milton. I picked up a book on reserve at the Milton Public Library (a Laurie King book for Cynra) and picked up some sauces from a 'discount store'.
It appears that Comic Express is going out of business, which is unfortunate, in that there'll now be no comic shop in Milton. I presume that the Cause of Death was that they were depending on cards as their final income stream, and the introduction of Gamedom just killed 'em off. A shame, as Gary had told me they used to be quite good.
The day was gorgeous, so I ended my wanderings with poutine at Chris Hadfield park.
Now, as Cynra returns from work, and I have cleaned the cat vomit from the carpet and popped the deep dish into the oven, I must now gird myself anew for another week of work. And I need to learn the combat rules for Shadowrun.
atomiks rang up to say he would be by to work on Cynra's iMac. This, of course, was news to us, but anything to get the old girl humming. The afternoon was a quiet one, with much goofiness and some video watching.
atomiks moved off to visit mr_weasel at work. Eventually, Cynra & I saddled up and headed down to my FNSLCS to pickup some stuff. New Comics: A Summary!
The comics on my pull list were pretty sparse, so I picked up a few other things, such as Squadron Supreme #1, which reminded me why I quit buying the series, as well as the next couple issues of Nextwave.
Nextwave is starting to get dull; the cheesy Nick Fury's self-loathing is one of the most interesting bits about it. The Fin Fang Foom battle was cute (yes, Warren, we know he's wearing underpants). I can't even remember what happened in issue 3. Oh, wait, evil cyborg cop. Very evil. Not comically so, though. The plot better gel quickly. I would really like to know why I should enjoy reading it.
In a fit of self loathing, I picked up the DP7 special. Fuck, that was a bad idea. Really, what was I thinking? I might still pick up the Nightmask and Spitfire stories, and will get Psi Force, if only because I'm not poor yet.
She Hulk #6 was thankfully enjoyable. The story is an exploration of the "Is Starfox just a creepy date rapist?" idea. For those of you what aint' geeks, Starfox is a member of the Avengers who has the power to make women feel good. And super-strength and flight. He uses his powers to get laid, which is questionable when it's primarily a form of subliminal mind control. The arc's title (Beaus & Eros) is a cute one. I wonder if there's a lawyer equivalent to Polite Dissent?
BTW:
luciencarter, you should really be reading PD, as he also talks about House a lot. So, yes. Mixed bag of comics. Also got another Universe booster for Star Wars, which thankfully had both a new rare (Nien Numb) and a new Big Fig,an Acklay, completing the savage trinity, now seated atop our tv. The three of them, btw, come to 115 points, so they'd be too much for a normal army. Maybe a 150 point, with a couple Geonosian figures to round them out.
Dinner was burritos at Chorizo. I really wish it was closer to home, because then I could eat there more often. The burritos are really quite good.
We then took in The Inside Man, a heist thriller from Spike Lee. Definitely a very clever film. The title doesn't make sense until the final reel, but it's quite interesting. It appears that Kim Diamond is becoming a regular in Spike Lee's movies, and there ain't nothing wrong with that!
Wasn't someone out there going to do a big article on heist films? I could have sworn I remembered reading something about that.
Today was quite. Cynra was off to work to put the last nail in report cards (If anyone would like to abbreviate their lifespan, feel free to say to me that teachers don't work hard), and I spent the day wandering Milton. I picked up a book on reserve at the Milton Public Library (a Laurie King book for Cynra) and picked up some sauces from a 'discount store'.
It appears that Comic Express is going out of business, which is unfortunate, in that there'll now be no comic shop in Milton. I presume that the Cause of Death was that they were depending on cards as their final income stream, and the introduction of Gamedom just killed 'em off. A shame, as Gary had told me they used to be quite good.
The day was gorgeous, so I ended my wanderings with poutine at Chris Hadfield park.
Now, as Cynra returns from work, and I have cleaned the cat vomit from the carpet and popped the deep dish into the oven, I must now gird myself anew for another week of work. And I need to learn the combat rules for Shadowrun.
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Date: 2006-03-27 12:24 am (UTC)Chorizo sounds pretty comparable to Moes Southwest Grille (http://www.moes.com/), which is my fave tex-mex eating establishment.
Mmmm, Moes.
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Date: 2006-03-27 02:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-27 02:32 am (UTC)Yeah, Moes is very the tasty. I get their 'Homewrecker' (which is basically the full burrito with the works, built to your specifics) and they will fill you up. A little white queso on the side to dip into, and mmm-mmmm!
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Date: 2006-03-27 01:40 am (UTC)1. Do they sell real poutine in Chris Hadfield park?
2. Is 'Gamedome' a game store in Milton?
3. And what was the name of that Milton used bookstore you were raving so politely about some months ago?
::B::
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Date: 2006-03-27 02:00 am (UTC)1. No, it's the wax replica stuff only.
2. Yes. 'Thunderdome' is that place in the desert with the wacky black chick running things. I always get those two confuzzled, too.
3. (insert wise-ass response)
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Date: 2006-03-27 02:19 am (UTC)2. Gamedom is the sole game selling venue in town, now. It's located in the Milton Mall, right outside the Zellers.
3. It was Kymbits.
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Date: 2006-03-27 02:14 pm (UTC)...Squadron Supreme...
I really want to like JMS writing comics. I really do. But, unfortunately, I don't. I read his entire run of Rising Stars, and afterwards all I could think was, "Meh. Not so much."
Imho, the JMS comics I have read betray his tendency for manufactured melodrama ("Ah! I'm so alone! And I hurt! So much!") and his startling inability to write dialogue that rings true. When it's on the screen, you can at least have living faces trying to breathe life into his wooden lines, but when it's on the printed page, he just doesn't seem to carry it off. Compare his dialog with, say, Bendis'. Bendis has his own flaws, but damn, he can make people talk in a fresh, real, and captivating way (even if people don't really talk like that, it sure seems like they ought to when you're reading one of his books).
So I keep looking at Supreme Power in my FNSLCS and thinking "oooh... Hyperion....", and then having to remind myself, "no, it's JMS", and putting it back down.
...Nextwave...
Arrrgh. Yet another pop culture object that reinforces that huge empty space in my head where people's parody receptors normally are. Honestly, I just don't grok parody. Irony I can get behind: so, there's a reason why I think the first... ummm.... 12 issues or so of The Authority, and probably the entire run of Planetary, and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, are genius. But while I really want to like Nextwave, it's just so self-consciously clever. It's gone over the irony hill and is firmly striding in parody country, and I just can't get into that.
(It just occurs to me that Moore himself provides a startling example of my inability to get parody: LoEG I get, Tom Strong - check, Top 10 - check. However, Smax - errr somethings going south there, and Tomorrow Stories - yawn.)
Warren, like Alan, needs to crumple up all his impulses to do parody, and throw them straight into the vertical file.
Of course, some people love that sort of thing. But then, there's all those people that like fanfic, and filking, etc, etc. I just don't get it. But then, I don't like zucchini either, and I that's all the rage...
New on my comics pile last week were Seven Soldiers tpb number 2, which I'm sort of liking (but I think Mr Morrison has a very delicate shroom-in-the-bloodstream balance which gets a bit concentration heavy from time to time, and the warning signs are there in this title), and Moore's "The 49ers" (or something smiliar) Top 10 prequel. That, I like a lot. And wouldn't mind at all if he did another of. It prompted me to pull out all my old Sandman Mystery Theatre ishs and bask in the period gloriousness, so that can only be a good thing, I guess...
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Date: 2006-03-27 08:56 pm (UTC)I do enjoy Joe's work on Spider-Man.
It's gone over the irony hill and is firmly striding in parody country, and I just can't get into that.
We have to get you and
I think I'm missing something about Nextwave. I really, for example, disliked the theme song.