Tell me! True North Strong and Free?

[thebitterguy]

[Poll #1165169]

Comments

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I think of you as a guy from Canada first, but I'm a second generation American, half-Candian by ancestry, and I've never visited the Great White North. (I hear it's a beauty way to go). I enjoy hockey, Leslie Neilson and Rush, and I envy your much better health care system and Tim Hortons (we don't have that kind of delicious love in the US). The US has made a wealth of low-budget films and Tv shows in Canada, more than Australia, Germany, Hungary and New Zealand. if the US dollar continues to drop, we'll be filming everything in the States.

Anyhow, I think of you first as a Canadian, but that's a good thing.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[thebitterguy]

At least it wasn't the Rowsdower icon.

[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

I love Canada, but I have yet to forgive it for "The Final Sacrifice."

[electricland.livejournal.com]

"From Canada" is kind of my default setting, so I think of you as, hmm, "That guy I know via Farscape and Toronto Trek Polaris, who posts amusing things and does gaming stuff." In general.

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

You are so painfully, obviously, Canadian that to even ask the question is to betray your Canadian-ness... 8)

[zenten.livejournal.com]

"He's the bald guy that's friends with my mom."

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Persons' nationality is rarely one of my primary concerns, so I consider you Canadian among other "second tier" descriptors.

Doug.

[thebitterguy]

What's my primary tier descriptor, then?

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Primary tier descriptors:

Gamer. Comics reader. Fireflyfan. Watcher of Indian "Bollywood" movies. What you do* by choice, not because you have to to pay the bills, and not related to the situations of your birth and upbringing.

Doug.

*And by this, I mean what you do that I know about, having never actually met I'm sure you're a complex human being with many other interests.

The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

He's the guy who shops at another comic shop, and then comes in to the one I work in and complains that they don't have what he's been looking for.

When I ask him why he shops there he goes "But ot's so CLOSE to where I live..."

That and he has exquisite taste in people.

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[thebitterguy]

I must say, I do BUY the things from you that I complain they don't get for me.

That's got to count for something.

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

There was never any question of that.

There's a Secret Invasion themed Franklin Richards issue coming up.

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[thebitterguy]

There's a Secret Invasion themed Franklin Richards issue coming up.

Oh, man. I'm SO conflicted about that.

I Byrne Stole issue 1 yesterday. WTF?

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

The expression "Byrne Stealing" is John Byrne's attempt to declare something that EVERY comic fan has done since time immemorial. There is no shame in Byrne Stealing (although paying for "F/X" Byrne's vanity-whore job is offensive even if you never read it... so go figure...)

Let me put it this way - if you saw Star Trek VII (the first Next Gen one - who am I kidding you know that already) and were only told that Kirk was gonna meet the Next Gen crew and maybe but we're not quite sure die at the hands of Malcolm McDowall - because spoilers are spoilers, right? - and what you got was 15 mins of semi-serious nautical misadventure set in the early 19th century with the characters you knew in out-of-period garb you'd be saying WTF as well.

The big splash about right near the end of the book is a bluff - we don't know if those are skrulls, if they're human, if they're skrulls who are deep-cover and THINK they're human, we don't know much of anything. Those people stepping out of the wrecked ship could be Plan 6 when the ones causing massive destruction and creepily reminding us that He loves us are Plan 18. We don't know.

Next month we'll know more. Or you can wait 8 months and get the trade.

If it makes you feel better, *I'll* Byrne-Steal the Franklin Skrull thingie when it comes in and tell you about it in here.

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[thebitterguy]

What was funny was that Byrne actually did the art for a chapter of the new Angel book.

Which was yet another painful reminder of how bad the art in that book is.

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[papajoemambo.livejournal.com]

It's sad how the Buffy on can be pretty good and the Angel one never EVER has had any of The Love.

I'm not a fan but I can flip through Buffy without going "Eughh!"

Re: The Canada thing goes without saying for me

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I prefer the Angel series. The Buffy one is kinda lightweight. Pretty enough, though.

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

He's that guy from TORONTO that does BLAH.

[thebitterguy]

That is one way to look at it, yeah. Even though my Toronto cred is weak at best.

Belated happy birthday. Sorry I missed the party, but I felt a little off at AA on Friday.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Dude, he lives in Milton!

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

Toronto suburb then.

[-auntiesocial-.livejournal.com]

I just think he is a guy from Canada who likes Rush.

[thebitterguy]

Guilty!

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I think of you as my friend. Since I'm in Canada, I don't think of you as a guy from Canada.