Alright, one more.

This is now, officially, my favorite t-shirt.


Stolen from The United Provinces of Ivanlandia, another blog you should be reading.

Too fat, huh?

There was some talk about Khloe Kardashian being to fat to pose nude. Nuts, I say. Check her out also at Fur is Dead.

Empowered

One of Reis' last Convention Hotties was dressed as Adam Warren's Empowered. I love this set of panels where the veteran supes are giving the new girl hell. Click to enlarge.


The life of a young heroine is a tough one. There must be some kind of superhero underwear? Normal heroes never have camel-toe or moose-knuckle. There are some that do, but remember, I said "normal."

The Weirdness of Google Searches

Ever wonder what searches lead to your site? Blogger's webmaster tools let you see, but I'll be damned if any of this helps.

The parenthetical number is my "search rank"—meaning people who look for adventures in nerdliness or adventures in nerdliness blog (bless their hearts) get me directly. However, if the are like me, and use quotes to limit search result, "adventures in nerdliness" is number 2. They get to... well, actually I was #1 there to. Hmm?

Anyway, it makes me wonder why certain things get searched. Was Lainie Kazan's Playboy spread a big search because My Big Fat Greek Wedding was on Sunday? Also, when I searched for it, I didn't get my blog. Nor on "the story" "dick gordon" or that Rorschach quote.

I really want to know what the Madame Cleau film is. The search results (I am #2 there) are likely constructed from "Madame Bovary" the welcome to "blond-cleau" and mention of "The Undead Film critic".

It is nice to be third in nerdliness, behind nerdliness.com and twitter/nerdliness. That's a pretty reputable placing.

1. "the story" "dick gordon" (6)
   
2. lainie kazan playboy spread (18)
   
3. "adventures in nerdliness" (2)
   
4. you think that i am locked in here with all of you but the truth is that you are all locked in here with me (9)
   
5. adventures in nerdliness (1)
   
6. adventures in nerdliness blog (1)
   
7. madame cleau film (2)
   
8. nerdliness (3)

Oh, and if you haven't noticed yet, I have nothing to do today.

Why aren't you reading these blogs?!?

Here are some sites you should check out. No particular order, just the order I thought of them in.

• Dinosaurs Fucking Robots: It is almost as crass as it sounds, and funny. And crass. Oh, and funny. Did I say crass already? How about funny? Okey.
  
• Comics Make No Sense: What happens when you scrutinize the comic works of the past? You find out what a dick Superman can be, or how sexist the JSA was, or just why we speculate about Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson's relationship. Don't blame us, the publishers put it out.
  
• Blah, Blah, Blog: Great comic art from J. Bone.
  
• Bulletproof Bracelets: Oddly, there is very little Wonder Woman action here. Lots of oddball celebrity stuff to make you smile, or gasp, or smiasp.
  
• Hell Bent for Taters: Just trust me on this one. Have I ever steered you wrong?

That's all for today. Namaste, y'all.

Welcome one & all!

Way behind in the welcome department. Here goes a quickie:

We have Ellie Great.

Mild Colonial Boy, Esq. of A Wandering Monster, I

Walter of Lost Continent Library.

Paul Brazil, who I do not believe has a blog?

Chris of the very fun Comics All Too Real.

And Lokipan.

Go visit these blogs, or else Cobra Commander really will look like that awful action figure.

"Once I had sex with an Australian girl..."

"I got a case of V.D. that kept coming back!"

Not really (that was a Rodney Dangerfield joke), but I got tagged with the 666 meme again, this time by Joe. I'll just type this time. If you need to see the rules, they are here. I tagged my six earlier, so if you'd like to play along, please do.

1. There are three women in this world who you cannot bad-mouth in my presence; my wife, Joan Jett, and Dolly Parton.
   
2. I sometimes hate myself for eating fish. I want to be a full vegetarian, but I cannot give up fish.
   
3. I have slept with two women who were twice my age. I was in my early-to-mid twenties, so stop that face you are making.
   
4. I have a sleep disorder, and have to wear a respirator at night. I also have tendinitis in my foot and occasionally have to wear a leg brace to bed. It looks like a Stormtrooper boot, and the respirator sounds like Darth Vader. So, when I wear both I always sleep nude to be especially pervy feeling.
   
5. I have panic attacks when I am in large gatherings. Not bad ones, but I want to run away and throw-up.
   
6. I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think Depeche Mode is a sweet band!*

Blips of the week

Just a few of my favorites...

Last Chance to Do a Solid for a Fellow Nerd!

I mentioned this a few weeks back, and again apologize a bit for soliciting.

Jill, aka The Nerdy Bird, is participating in the MDA Stride & Ride this Sunday and is a mere $300 short of her team goal of $1000. You can read more about it at her blog, Has Boobs, Reads Comics, here.

Jill is a nerd girl of the first order, and is raising money for a good cause. You have until Sunday night to donate, and you can do any amount. To play off Jill's post a bit, how about this; consider buying me a beer this weekend, or a slice of pizza (cheese and mushroom please). Instead of doing that, however, donate $5 to Jill's team?

So, lets see how drunk-on-Karma you can make me this weekend. I can take it!

Welcome New Followers!

Sorry, but this is going to be an impersonal welcome. I saw that I have had four new followers, and little time to check blogs. I'll take a stab this weekend.

Oh, and all the Mr. T stuff, just a phase I am going through. I am not normally so T-centric. Just proving the power of Twitter. I Twatted about doing an unorganized Mr. T festival and no one came :-( Twitter is the future of the intertubes, I tell ya!

The Pivitol Exchange in Each Episode of the A-Team

B.A.: "I ain't gettin' on no plane, Hannibal!"

Hannibal: "I know B.A. Here, have some milk."

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I stole this from someone. Sorry I can't remember who.

Good Metal Morning! "Victim of Changes"

Two problems with deleting your Navbar acknowledged

While I still advocate the removal of Navbars, there are two things I miss.

1. The "New Post" link. I am a narcissist, so I read my own blog. ("I am smart and funny, aren't I?") Now I have to go to the Dashboard. I have several blogs, and Blogger shuffles them according to which had the most recent post. Not really a big deal, I guess.

2. The Blog Search. Believe it or not, this might be easy to fix. A search box is an easy script. I will try to have something drawn up by the weekend. I like to be able to search blogs for posts that include things like "Darius Whiteplume is smart and funny," or "why does Darius Whiteplume post so much Mr. T crap lately?"

"You a chump, Balboa!"

We could have some fun.

Okey, in my recent "six random things" post, I made a joke about creating a googleable phrase. A mere few hours later we have:


What if we all posted this phrase on our blog? How viral could it be? We could make the good sir Phronk famous!

Of course we could choose another phrase. Any suggestions? Anyone want to play along?

No Chance!

Six Random Things

This morning I woke to find a strange collar around my neck and a girl in a buckskin bikini grunting unintelligibly. I have a strange, fresh surgical scar around the circumference of my skill (just above the brow-ridge), and my thumbs are not working as I feel they should. This could only mean one thing.

The Rules

1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Post the rules on your blog.
3. Write six random things about yourself.
4. Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
5. Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog.
6. Let the tagger know when your entry is up.

So, here we go...

1. Lately I am very into strong black icons from the 1980s, even though I am a weak white whatever-the-opposite-of-icon-is from the 1970s. Can we get a TV show staring Queen Latifah and Mr. T, please?
   
2. I am somewhat obsessed with nunsploitation.
   
3. My favorite colors are green and purple, and my fashion sense is such that I would wear them together. Luckily I am married and such choices are not up to me.
   
4. If I could get away with it I would be as lazy as the voices tell me to be.
   
5. "Why did you type that?" the voices want to know. "Tell them about finding Janice Dickinson sexy, and that you don't think she is really as bitchy as she appears to be on TV." Okey, should I type that word for word. "Did we stutter? Type, you punk ass!"
   
6. I don't wanna sound gay or nothin', but I think unicorns kick ass!
   

Now, for my victims...

1. The Reverend Fred Phantom, whose blips I have been digging, and oddly enough, has naked nuns on his banner. It's okey. You can look. I'm sure they are real nuns.
   
2. Tenebrous Kate, because I am obsequious where royalty is concerned, and there is alway nunnery going on in the Empire.
   
3. Rich. I like his style.
   
4. Wings, think of it as a little writing exercise.
   
5. Iasa, who I find mysterious and intriguing. She's compared herself in some ways to Danielle Fischell. What more can we learn, hmm?
   
6. Phronk. Since you are having such a weird Mr. T week, I wanted to include you in a post with Mr. T mentioned. That is three times now. If I add the word conspiracy, you could google "The Phronk Mr. T Conspiracy" and get a result. This blog is value added!

I just realized there are six rules, six items, and six tagged people! I have been dragged into some satanic ritual, I just know it!

Music + Twitter = Blip

So, I am on Twitter, and enjoy reading the items people post, but I don't often know what to say. Also, I like music, but am not well schooled in Euterpean lore to talk about it much. What is a nerd like me to do? Why Blip, of course.

I first came across Blip.fm through The Nerdy Bird on Twitter. Here is the deal.

On Blip, you create a DJ account. They suggest current DJs you might be interested in based on your music choices. You can listen to these DJs, or the general pool. Most importantly, you can play music.

Twitterers, this is right up you alley. Here is a conversion chart:

Blip = Update
Listeners = Followers
Favorite DJs = Following
"Add this blip to your playlist" = "favorite this update"

You can also "reblip" a blip. Someone played a song you like? You can reblip it to your blips. You can also give and receive "props" to/from DJs. And you can "@" DJs just like Tweeting people on Twitter. You can get varying degrees of feedback by email, such as who gave you props for what, who is a new listener, and who rebliped a song you played.

I find it to be really addictive, and have virtually met some great people. Some of our nerdly brethren are already blippers. I don't listen to as much as I play music, but that is part of the fun for me. I tend to make virtual mix-tapes, picking a style, mood, era, whatever.

Wanna listen to my stuff, click the image below. Already on Blip, let me know. I got props to burn brothers and sisters. Also, some of our friends that I know of (sorry if I miss anyone) are The Reverend Fred Phantom, Trixie Treats, and Patrick/Sun&Heir. One of my favorite DJs is DJYourMama who is really in line with my current musical tastes.

Go ahead, remove your Navbar

I won't explain here since Blogger Templates has already done such a nice job. Click here.

More and more bloggers here at Blogger are having trouble with the goodie-two-shoes of the world flagging their blogs as inappropriate. You might remember The Sexy Witch getting chastised and The Undead Film Critic getting canned altogether. Well, not our friend Ghidorah of the sublime Acheter et entretenir sa tronçonneuse (how to buy and maintain you chainsaw) is under similar fire.

So, I am taking my Navbars off my blogs, since the handy little "Flag This Blog" link is there. Perhaps the holier-than-thou are also the lazier-than-shit, and will not expend more effort than the normal point-and-click flagging? Here's my PSA idea:

"Remove your Navbar. It's like a blog condom!"

Well, that needs some work. How about this:

A little behind here, but feeling ranty.

I don't pay a lot of attention to celebrity news, except what I see on The Soup and The :Dish, but saw a bit on Samurai Frog's 2/27 Throwdown about the Rihanna/Chris Brown thing that really makes me nuts. I don't know which is worse, the violence or the acceptance. This is nothing new, but the idea that anyone's partner deserves physical violence, regardless of sex, is sickening.

I have been listening to a lot of late '80s/early '90s music lately, and wonder where the idea of feminine power went? Queen Latifah or MC Lyte would have put their foot in their partner's ass for such behavior, and would likely have not have chosen a likely perpetrator in the first place. Perhaps culturally we started slipping in the mid '90s? The En Vogue song I added yesterday "Never Gonna Get It" was always seen as a "I am not going to sleep with you" song. It was, but it was more of a "treat me right and you'll get there" song. Verses are just as important as choruses:

Maybe next time you'll show your woman a little respect
and you won't be hearing her say 'no way'

Alright. Enough. I'm not even proofing this. Just spitting it out. Love your partner. Treat them right. If we don't get our collective act together the Vulcans will never ever land here and we will not get to travel through space.

Now, listen to one of the rockinest rap songs from the '80s.

Enough of your jibber-jabber!

I still love Mr. T. I can't help it. Even the cartoon was pretty good. I came across this pic today at The Daily What.

The Song Stuck in My Head: En Vogue/Salt n Peppa

This is some of my favorite music from the '90s. I hate that Salt n Peppa had a split. I thought they had a lot of positive things to say, and were the female Run DMC. En Vogue I had seen on SNL once, and they were rockin' it. Anyway, just thought I'd dump some songs y'alls' way. Enjoy.

This is not a charade, Tony Stark.

Great stop-motion animation.

Premature Book Review: The Song is You

I originally heard about this book at LTftTE. Empress Kate had good things to say, and her legion were in agreement. After the fine suggestion of The Monster of Florence, another imperial favorite which I enjoyed, combined with my love for Hammett, Chandler, Thompson, and Cain I couldn't get to Amazon fast enough.

Alright, I am not far into it, but this exchange alone has sold the book. I have trimmed it a bit for brevity.

"Is it serious?" he says [...]

"Not really," she replies, tilting her head. Then, with a klieg light leer lewd as a burlesque dancer but with infinitely greater appeal: "But I'm having the time of my life."

I do love a classy frail with a deviant streak; Add unnecessary alliteration, and you've sold a book to me brother. :-)

Nerd Girl of Note #27

Now, I was not always a Star Trek fan. I liked The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country, but as far as TV goes I was not interested. Then one day I was watching VH1 (back when they played some videos and did music news) and there was this hot chick in a bikini walking on the beach as a guest VJ. "Who is this Jeri Ryan?" I asked myself. An internet search later and I was a Voyager fan. Now, T&A aside, Voyager is one of the better series, and I still watch it when a rerun comes along. I now prefer Enterprise.

While I am a fan, I am no Trekkie. There is a world of stuff I know nothing about Star Trek-wise. I do remember a lot of complaints about Voyager becoming the "Seven of Nine Show" and thought I'd mention some thoughts here.

Voyager had a big cast of characters, and like The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, they tried avoiding the old Kirk/Spock/McCoy style of stories and include everyone. For a while it worked. Chakotay and Torres had an interesting story as former rebels who were now part of Star Fleet, but the majority were pretty run of the mill.

Harry Kim: Young rookie thrust into a perilous situation.
Tom Paris: Daddy issues.
Katheryn Janeway: Woman in a man's world.
Tuvok: Formerly human hating Vulcan coming to love our upstart people.

Meh.

Now, prior to 7 of 9, there was The Doctor, who was interesting. There was Neelix and Kes, who were really the core relationship for a long time (the unrequited love angle always plays well). Frankly, I think they were running out of ideas. They brought in 7 of 9 and changed that.

Many of the stories played up The Doctor and 7 of 9. Here was something they could get some mileage out of. On one hand you have a human who became a machine (well, Borg), and was trying to become human again. On the other you have a machine (well, hologram) who was all too human. The two played off each other well, and the awkwardness of their positions and polar opposition made a classic styled relationship with loads of possibilities. This is, in fact, the oldest storytelling relationship we know of; Gilgamesh was half god, Enkidu was half animal, and together they both became human.

So, in my book, it did not become the "7 of 9 Show" rather the "7 of 9 & The Doctor Show"—and with good reason.

Oh, and check out Dracula 2000 sometime. She's in that too :-)

New followers, welcome!

I am way behind here. Quick rundown. We have:

Dragonmanes of I Like Horror Movies.
Soiled Sinema of Soiled Sinema
Cinema Du Meep of Cinema Du Meep
Tommy Salami of Pluck You, Too!

All movie blogs, all look very cool. Check them out!

Please pardon our mess.

I was a bit over-reliant on Photobucket, and now a lot of my images are disappearing due to bandwidth. Trying to clean that up now and abandon Photobucket all together. We apologize for any inconvenience :-)

This week has been shot!

Sorry for not getting more posts out this week. Looks like the Nerd Girl of Note might get skipped tomorrow (maybe by saying that I'll receive inspiration?). Work has been way up this week, and while I complete things quickly, we have to run psy-ops to make the boss happy.

So here is a quick list of things I have had in my mind:

I got the 4e Player's Handbook 2 yesterday. Nice to have the druid back (gnomes & half-orcs too), but now there are sooooo many races and classes. I really only bought the book for the druid, so I can convince the wife to start playing again. :-)

Is it just me, or is Russell Brand hilarious? I only just found out about him from his Comedy Central special last weekend. Check him out sometime.

Had a great time on St. Patrick's Day. Went out with the wife and four other women. I felt like Hugh Hefner, because there was no chance of sleeping with any of them :-D

It is still Pam Grier Week. There have been some posts on various blogs, but I think I picked a heavy week for everyone. To see this list of potential participants, go here. The site links will search for the related posts.

Finished my first Torchwood book (see sidebar). It was not bad. Good for occupying your time if like me you are not much of a TV watcher. Was it a great book? Oh, no. Was it enjoyable? Yes. On to the final Michael Kane of Mars book, then who knows where?

Oh, and I am applying to grad school! Technical writing, woo-ho!

Time for breakfast. L8R All.

A little meme time. Rules, etc., at the end.

"I heard you were dead," the mountain of muscle said.

"Yeah, I hear that a lot."

This awful government issued cigarette tastes like hell. I'd quit, but what would be the point? By my watch, I have sixteen hours, nineteen minutes, and a handful of seconds left to live. I light another.

"Did I ever tell you how I got this eyepatch?"

"No, you nev..."

"See, it happened a long time ago. I was a kid. You know how kids are. Dangerous toys, all fun and games 'til, well, you know.

"So, I'm out back playing with Timmy. He was a good kid. Lived next door," he breaks in at this point.

"Is this going anywh..."

"Timmy was a good kid. Smart. Well, he never ended up here, so pretty smart at least," I light another cigarette. His men move in a bit. Guns relaxed. "Playing with Timmy. That is how I lost my eye."

"That?" he asks. "What the hell did he do?"

"This," I say as a pull my gun, shooting him in the left eye. "Only he had a pellet gun."

Cabbie's car screeches into the crowd as they stand dumbfounded. I throw Maggie through the door and get in behind her. Cabbie hits the gas.

"Is that really how you lost your eye, Snake?" Maggie asks.

"No."

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Okey, that was my entry in the Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken's Eyepatch meme.

Here are the rule:

1. Explain to the world The Impossible Truth Behind Snake Plissken's Eye-Patch. Could be a one word sentence (pussy) or could be a seven page novella (boring). Whatever you choose, but tell us all why Snake got the eye-patch.

2. Tag five bloggers asking them to create their own stories about the eye-patch.

3. Of course link back to Lazy Eye Theatre so that people know where this originated. And to those of you who got tagged by someone other than me, post your link in the comments section, I would love to read what you came up with.

Tagging... Hmmm... How 'bout

Mark
Angie
WIEC?
Cal
Trixie

That's all for me. Write something if you want.

Pam Grier Week! Fort Apache the Bronx

Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) is far more a Paul Newman vehicle than Pam Grier. Newman plays Murphy, a cop with an authority problem. He had made detective, but was busted down to uniform after pissing off a powerful criminal.

Pam's role is short and classic for her. She plays Charlotte, a junkie prostitute who is a killer. She is the boogey-man (woman) throughout the film. The opening scene shows her killing two cops with a pistol; this is the event that drives the rest of the movie. Throughout the rest of the film, Charlotte kills "johns" and is always around, though no one knows she is a killer. Murphy and his partner Corelli (Ken Wahl) even prevent her pimp from beating her up, or at least tell him to "keep it off the street." Her favorite weapon recalls her Blaxploitation days as Coffy and Foxy Brown. Charlotte hides a razor blade in her mouth, and when the time is right, moves it between her teeth and slashes her victim's throat.

The new precinct captain (Ed Asner) wants results, and tells the cops he will not question their actions in producing leads. This causes a huge crackdown on the normally ignored crimes going on. The strong arm police tactics lead to a riot.

The movie is not great. It is at times thoughtful. It is a bleak movie; it always looks like it is about to snow. It is a bit ham-fisted at times. It is worth watching if you like cop dramas. All in all, it is a bit like all the unfunny parts of the Newman classic Slapshot!

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Intro Message








Charlotte flirting with two rookies.








Later on...


What a place to change a tire.


"This ain't no motel, baby, but it'll do."





Uh... Is that a razor?

Shit Talkin' Tough Guys: Rorshach

Paraphrasing:

"You guys don't seem to get it. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me!"

Yes, I saw it. It was pretty good. A fun movie. Having never read the comic book, I had no preconceptions.

4e Forgotten Realms Revisited

Okey, I spoke to soon last time about liking the new Forgotten Realms. I really like it. I have not played yet, but actually read the beginning chapters of the campaign guide (skipped over a lot of the place descriptions for now). The timeline is about a century past the last edition (now 1479DR), and there was a cataclysm. So the world has changed greatly, and there are not a thousand novels describing what has happened or will happen. It is, for now, more of a blank slate.

Typically, I do not like the publishing of two books on the same subject, but I like that there is a player's book and a DM's book. The DM doesn't have to wade through all the player info, and vice versa. One great thing about the player's guide is that it details what a player likely knows about a place. Rather than me filtering out what I think they would know, they can look it up.

The player guide also includes the Sword Mage class, which I am torn about. It just might be too powerful, particularly if it is one of the more powerful races, but if I run a game I will not disallow it. Apparently the drow are more tolerated, and are setup as a PC race in FR.

I look forward to playing it a bit when I meet some other players. Will report back :-)

FFN Skip Day, Maybe

Work has been a bear, Daylight Savings Time, and I am quitting smoking (again). I may get a Fiction's Finest Nerds out tonight.

I know... I suck.

:-)

LEGO Link: Cool Pics on Flickr

There is a great collection of famous photos recreated with LEGO on Flickr here. Some of them are really great, worth a look. Besides the LEGO, the photography is excellent.

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A Lego recreation of Jeff Widener's 1989 photograph of "The Unknown Rebel."

My Nerd Name Spreads to the Real World!

I donated a bit to get a MDA shamrock at my local Bojangles and used my non du web. Arden, you might remember as my oldest RL friend, is in fact my better half [awwww!]. She wanted to stay anonymous when she wanted to blog, but I am outing her since she gave it up.

The New Banner. An Attempt at 3-D

If you have some red/cyan 3-D glasses, you should see the text in the banner in poor 3-D. It didn't turn out great, but I always have loved 3-D. Pictures, drawings. Anything.

A joke from 1st grade!

I can't remember how long it's been since I heard this, unless you count when I heard it tonight.

Q. Why do farts smell?

A. So blind people can enjoy them too!

Oh, I wish I were five years-old again.

Nerd Girl of Note #26

Who is it? Katheryn Winnick Websites Unofficial Site Why do nerds love her? Hellraiser Alum
Katheryn Winnick has done a great deal of television and film work, including Hellraiser: Hellworld, Satan's Little Helper, Biohazardous, CSI: Miami, Law & Order, and House, MD.

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More images at House of Sin.

I LIke It!

I am a bit against all the Obama crap people are selling, but this one I like:

Olivia Munn - Attack of the Show

Olivia Munn is the cohost of G4's Attack of the Show. She does a lot of spoofs of nerd-friendly heroines. I posted a few of her as Wonder Woman here and here.

Attack of the Show - Lesbionic Woman - Click here for this week’s top video clips

New followers, welcome!

Normally I don't jump on the welcomes, but today is special. I am sick and work really sucks. I came back from working on a completely jacked-up laptop to find two new followers, so in order to create some happy time, here goes.

First... Didn't I say the new "Followers" gadget was going to give me fits? Well, it has started. We have Jon, who I almost missed, because the new gadget shuffled him to the bottom of the pile. I don't think Jon has a blog yet, and may be a new Blogger user, yes? You will soon learn the ways of the Force, young Padwan. Or I will learn the ways of the new gadget :-)

Second, we Have Rich. Rich has a few blogs. The one I have been following as of this morning is Comic by Comic. You can see the other blogs here, at his profile. Believe it or not, there is a Dazzler fan blog out there (that is the Marvel character, not the rhinestone applique device, which is really named the "Bedazzler"). Perhaps it is similar to Amazon Princess? [shameless plug]

Ah, the glories of nerdery! Hard to believe there are sixty-one people here, and I am the only asshole. Why can't the whole world be our little slice of the internet? [sigh]

Shit Talkin' Tough Guys: Wonder Woman and Artemis

What's better than a bad-ass character talking smack? Two bad-ass characters talking smack to each other! This is from the new Wonder Woman animated movie. I am paraphrasing, btw.

[Diana and Artemis are sparing]

Diana: "I prayed for you last night, Artemis. "

Artemis: "Prayed for what?"

Diana: "I asked Apollo to grant you the wisdom to end this string of defeats at my hand."

[Artemis gains the advantage]

Artemis: "Apollo be praised."

[Diana counters, winning the fight]

Diana: "I guess I didn't pray hard enough."

My Quick Review of the Animated Wonder Woman Movie

Is over at Amazon Princess, if you want to read it.

Green Lantern Animated Movie this Summer

Hal Jordan. Direct to video.

Sinestro...

Looks like it could be good. There is a featurette on the Wonder Woman DVD (we'll talk about that later).

Jason of Star Command?

I had completely forgotten this show, but as soon as I saw my favorite actor, Sid Haig, it all came rushing back. Check out MWB's World for a refresher (or introduction)!

A New Batman?

There was an article in Geek this month about the potential retiring of Bruce Wayne and who might be the next Batman. They discussed Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, as well as other possible Bat-centric characters. I thought we already knew who the next Batman was. Terry McGinnis, right?

Terry McGinnis was Batman on Batman Beyond, and while not canon, it is at least as real as Miguel O'Hara as Spider-Man in 2099.

Batman Beyond begins circa 2019. Bruce Wayne suffers a heart attack and is forced to threaten a criminal with a gun. This is so at odds with his beliefs that he retires as the Batman. Circa 2039, Terry McGinnis has a run in with some of the Joker Gang's members, and finds himself at Wayne Manor. Bruce fights the gang members with him, but is made ill by the exertion. While staying to make sure the old man is alright, McGinnis discovers the Bat Cave, and "borrows" a high-tech batsuit. He is then tutored by Bruce Wayne on how to be a crime-fighter.

Of course, this leaves twenty years with no Batman at all, and until we get a bit closer to 2039, it would be difficult to take Batman that far out of timeline Just to add the McGinnis character. The problem with many of the speculative choices are that they, I think, do not want to be Batman. Dick Grayson certainly does not. He is well established as Nightwing, and frankly has enough problems with Bruce Wayne to be a bit repelled by the thought. As far as Jason Todd or Tim Drake go, I am not so sure. Todd has a new persona as The Red Robin. Tim Drake might be young and impressionable enough to want to take the mantle, perhaps?

Here is who should be Batman in my opinion. Bruce Wayne.

Sure, logic dictates that he has to age, but that is why Batman Beyond is set forty years in the future and includes Bruce Wayne. To you and me, it should not matter that Batman today would be sixty-nine years-old (or more like eighty-nine, depending on his age when he became Batman). How long was Peter Parker in college? How old would James Bond be in Die Another Day (the last film prior to the restart of the character with Daniel Craig)? How many years was Conan at twenty-summers? It does not really matter.

If this really happens, I fear it will be another attempt to boost sales briefly, just as they did when they "killed" Batman, and Superman. Hopefully, the comic buying public is smarter than this. I don't mind the idea of story lines with an aging Batman like Frank Millers Return of the Dark Knight, and I really enjoyed Batman Beyond. The core character, however, should be Bruce Wayne, fit as a fiddle and ready to bust heads.

11 Year-old Plays YYZ on the Organ

For those of you unfamiliar, she is playing most of the bass with her feet. She is pretty bad-ass! Check out the old-school Rush t-shirt at the end :-)

WTF?

I don't think I can even comment...

Welcomes

Time to welcome two new followers!

Suwit Sense has a blog Your Life, which is very new. Some cool artwork posted there. The paintings contain nudity, not crass, but if you are at work you may want to wait 'til you're home.

Mayren has a blog Mayren Abashed. On a quick run-through I saw Doctor Who, Zombies, and the Muppets mentioned (with a picture of my third favorite Muppet, Super Grover).

Be sure to check these out, and remember, only you can help prevent forest fires.

Premature Book Review: Torchwood, Almost Perfect

Okey, I am not too familiar with Torchwood, other than what I get from Doctor Who, and this is the last book in a series, but I got it anyway. The first page was funny.

This is a great ADD book. The chapters are rarely more than four pages. It jumps from character to character. It is not too taxing. It is a fun book. Because fo the writing style, it feels like a kid's book, but isn't. It is not overly adult, but there are a few language bits that prove it is not for the 'tween crowd.

The story revolves around (no spoilers here) a woman who finds a device that speaks inside her head, and begins transforming her into the perfect woman. Also, Torchwood regular(?) Ianto Jones has been... Well, changed.

If you are into the Who-niverse, it is probably a fun read, and worth the Amazon reduced price. Something to blow ten minutes on before bed.