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    Thursday, July 6th, 2006
    12:33 pm
    LOOK HOW FUNNY I AM
     I am too too pleased with myself over my first foray into YTMND-dom, so I share with you, the unwarshed masses (based on a panel from Avengers #4)

    http://hulkbreakup.ytmnd.com
    Tuesday, December 27th, 2005
    9:12 pm
    Hear me, X-Men
     My life just became complete. Today in the mail arrived my DVDs of every freaking issue of the Fantastic Four and Uncanny X-Men. As h said, "I know where you'll be for the next 6 months" HUAGALUGAHUAGAGLUHUAG
    3:01 pm
    Comics in my id
     So I dreamed I was at a con and there was a mixture of people cosplaying as superheroes and actual superheroes. I saw with excitement that there was a New Mutants retrospective panel, although that tiresome Sunspot was speaking. It turned out he was the highlight, though. After a tedious explanation of how his powers worked, he mentioned the New Mutants and said "I think a few of my surviving teammates are here; stand up, let's give them a hand!"
    10:56 am
    Recent favorite snark
     h and I were out at a local place for fooding up. I ordered a large coffee and the guy behind the counter handed me a medium coffee, so I immediately appended "... or whatever size is most convenient for *you*." LOL OMG SO MEAN.
    Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
    3:08 pm
    Monday, November 14th, 2005
    11:47 am
    Monday, October 24th, 2005
    12:50 pm
    Driving me Postal
     It's official: this universe is no longer a place I can live, as of http://www.gamespot.com/news/6136367.html

    I will be relocating via quantum mirror to a better place of puppies and rainbows, and releasing a destructive wave of anti-matter to tidy up this place once I leave. Ta!
    Friday, October 21st, 2005
    10:07 am
    Wet and ready, bro
     The title is something a shirtless teen Aquaman said to pouty lipped Clark Kent on Smallville last night. My god, they have finally gone from subtext to 144 point bold italicized flashing text (with serifs). On a season 4 DVD, the three "hot chicks" on the show even commented about the subtext: "Gee, Clark is always catching Lana's boyfriends." "Oh look, he's rescuing a shirtless, chained up Clark"

    I never knew Superman was so gay
    Thursday, October 20th, 2005
    4:04 pm
    Speaking of all things mutant
     So I picked up X-Men Legends II for the PSP yesterday, and I must say I dig it. It seems like a perfect port of the console versions, except with extra missions and playable characters. Same graphics, same audio and very smooth online play (for those who like that sort of thing). Given my recent infatuation with her, I spend most of my time playing as the Scarlet Witch, hoping I'll find a power up of margaritas somewhere along the way, but so far, no luck. Despite that glaring omission, it's a ginormous thumbs up.

    Is that Wolverine in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
    Sunday, October 16th, 2005
    10:51 am
    WWBCD?
     So we were talking about House of M, and I had the stunning realization that Wanda and Pietro Maximoff are the Brenda and Billy Chenowith of the Marvel Universe. "That's what your penis would look like if you had been born a speedster mutant." AIIIIIEEEEE.
    Friday, October 14th, 2005
    2:41 pm
    It made me titter
     So I was listening to the radio, and the announcer was doing a PSA urging women to get "screening mammograms," except that a slip of the tongue turned it into "screaming mammograms." What's next, singing mammograms?
    Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
    5:07 pm
    Lovecraft, baby!
     So as all interested parties already know, h and I (haw, that never gets old) returned from the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival yesterday (and boy are my pseudopods tired). It definitely ran the gamut from cosmic horror to cosmically horrible. One thing I found interesting is that the original stuff seemed to me more true to the spirit of HPL's stuff than the adaptations; maybe his writing just doesn't make for good viewing. The adaptations seemed pretty consistently marred by bad writing, bad acting and a "boobs and blood" aesthetic that must be in some edition of Dreams in the Witch-House that I failed to read. There was an Italian film whose name I don't even recall that was a remarkably by-the-numbers reimagining of The Blair Witch Project with Deep Ones standing in for the Blair Witch.

    On the other hand, "Cast a Deadly Spell" was fairly swank and we were both very pleased with "The Dead Inside;" it sort of felt like someone had just filmed their Call of Cthulhu LARP session, but without the painful embarrassment that should have accompanied such a thing. Some of the shorts were also excellent, "The King in Yellow" was pretty genuinely scary as was "March the 13th, 1941". "Late Bloomer" was very cute (I described it to a coworker with "David Sedaris as a Lovecraft protagonist recounting his first sex ed class) as was "Night of the Octopus". "It's the Great Cthulhu, Chuck and Dexter" was more or less Jay and Silent Bob's failed clones meet the Great Old Ones, but I still could have probably enjoyed it if not for the braying assholes who thought it was a lot funnier than I did.

    I may need to make an entry for next year's festival, maybe "The Three Mi-gos" or "Look Cthulhu's Talking" or maybe "Cthulhu Frame Roger Rabbit", even "Gug, Interrupted"

    Wow, that's a lot of Blog-Sothoth action; apologies for bad puns and pointless posting.

    P.S. Titular joke must be attributed to wasabi...
    Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
    8:25 pm
    Monday, July 25th, 2005
    2:56 pm
    Six Feet Underoos
     My latest genius marketing idea! Which unlikable, whiny, self-involved asshole do YOU want to be?

    And may I just say, that was some pretty damn instant karma hitting Nate last night O_O
    Tuesday, April 19th, 2005
    2:24 pm
    1:27 pm
    Am I crazy (rhetorical question)
     Or did the Vatican *totally* miss out by not having the election of the new pope be a reality show. Call it something like People Who Need Papal or Pontiffication or something and feature exciting challenges like eating 100 transubstantiated hosts in 90 seconds, or holding your breath for at least 3 minutes in a font of holy water, or maybe performing an exorcism while bungie-jumping.

    Ah, missed opportunities :(
    Thursday, April 14th, 2005
    2:58 pm
    LOL OMG ALIAS
     FINALLY, season 4 starts to get interesting.

    My prediction:
    Jack Bristow's genetic mutation leads to either the power to have a human-sized mouth or the curse of turning into a Joel Grey-esque version of Arvin Sloane under the full moon.

    And now I think I need a global swap between Joel Grey and Jean Grey; let's see if the X-Men can tell the difference.

    "Hear me, Cabaret! No longer am I the Emcee you once knew!"

    Yay cough syrup
    Wednesday, October 20th, 2004
    8:09 am
    I'm going back to Kali
     So I had a fairly extensive dream, and I know there was a lot of fluff around it, but the only part that has stuck with me involves various kooky Eastern destruction goddesses. Basically, it's being narrated by a woman singing in the style of a Bollywood musical about the birth of Kali:

    "The flame on Nirrti's forehead intensified/
    And Kali sprang forth and was made"

    This accompanied by the visual of a figure who was featureless black with a flaring stylized red flame on its forehead, and a fairly standard representation of Kali leaping out of it.

    For NPR News in the village of Sankara, India, I'm Mola Ram.
    Tuesday, May 25th, 2004
    3:21 pm
    Presented in exciting nerd-o-vision
     So the other night I dreamed I was having a party in my house. Wandering around, I found my landlord talking to X-Men comics scribe, Chris Claremont. I made some good-natured comment about how stupid the Shi'ar (bird-like aliens) were, and he said "Hey, I'll take back every Shi'ar story if you'll take back that damn retcon where they brought Jean back to life." We all chuckled, and I quipped "OH NO SHI'AR DIDN'T" which sent us over the edge with laughter.

    Then General Hammond from the show Stargate walked up (cover/hat appropriately tucked under his arm) walked up and said he had to go. I said, "OK, well thanks for coming, captain... OH GOD I MEAN GENERAL I'M SO SORRY." And that was more or less the end.

    So, not only am I gigantic nerd, but even in my dreams, I'm a huge freaking spaz.
    Wednesday, March 17th, 2004
    9:51 am
    Latest hella rad dream
     So, I had my first TV tie-in dream in a while.

    The West Wing had been invaded by ninjas, two guys and a chick. The senior staff had been captured during a fabulous party (where was Sydney Briwtow through all this?) and was being held for some nefarious purpose. Unfortunately for the ninjas, they failed to consider that they were facing the amazing Claudia Jean Cregg, White House Press Secretary and possibly Vampire Slayer.

    While looking bored at the ninjas, the used some little party favor to explode streamers and silly string all over the female ninja. The other ninjas started laughing at her, and the combined trauma of this and having her favorite ninja outfit RUINED made her so angry that she attacked the other two ninjas and all three killed each other while C.J. eatched, bemused.

    At this point the dream backed off to the point that I was watching this on TV, and I thought, "My God, ninjas! This show has *totally* jumped the shark since Sorkin left..."

    Thanks, and I hope you've enjoyed the vomiting of my id.
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