Month: January 2005

When you think of the vast percentage of Americans who can’t be bothered to come out and vote…and that musicians develop an overwrought campaign called “Vote Or Die,” which really doesn’t mean much of anything, as opposed to the “Vote And Die” message being spread by Iraqi terrorists…

It’s just pretty dámņëd impressive, the Iraqis turning out to vote in their first election. Make no mistake, it’s still a horror show, we still shouldn’t be over there, Bush lied to America, and Bush’s List continues to grow. But at least Iraqis are braving all manner of risk to vote, as opposed to many Americans who are so cavalier about a right they never earned or had to fight for.

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With the Super Bowl coming up next week, I thought it’d be interesting to ask you four questions. Don’t bother posting the answers: These are only for your amusement and edification. Some folks will know a few of them. Some will know them all. But I’m guessing that, of the four, there’s only going to be one that absolutely everyone is going to be able to answer quickly and confidently. Here we go:

1) Which two teams played in last year’s Superbowl?

2) Who won?

3) What was the final score?

4) Which of Janet Jackson’s breasts was exposed, her right or her left?

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So Kathleen was reading Caroline a book yesterday, and on one page a beach scene was pictured. Seagulls were depicted fluttering around.

One of the things you do with picture books is, naturally, see if the child can name the things pictured. So Kathleen pointed at the seagulls and said, “What are these?”

“Birds,” Caroline said.

“Very good.”

Then Caroline took another look at the seagulls. Her eyes widened, and suddenly she started saying, “Mine? Mine? Mine mine mine?”

So now I’m wondering if letting her watch “Finding Nemo,” like, eighty seven times, wasn’t the world’s best idea.

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For those interested, Kath has pictures up of Caroline cavorting in the snow.

http://homepage.mac.com/kathodavid/PhotoAlbum20.html

For those not interested, you can go back and look at the Hulk cover some more.

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Years ago, as a gag for Marvel’s “What Th–?!” I created a female Wolverine clone called Wolverina.

Who knew that if I’d waited a few years and pitched it seriously and given her a more straightforward designation such as X-23, I’d’ve created the new hot character?

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You sitting down? I sure hope so because if you’re standing and typing, that’s just kinda weird.

Behold the finalized cover to Hulk #81:

After watching LOTR during the snow days, it really underscored a major failing for me.

The villains never won a battle.

They lost the battle of Helm’s Deep. They lost the battle of Minas Tirith (pardon the spelling if that’s wrong.) They lost the battle at the Black Gate (ran away from it, actually, even though they outnumbered the forces of man by a hundred to one.) They lost the battle of the Ents vs. Isengard. Even when they did succeed, it was overthrown in short order. The Orcs made off with the Halflings, but it was the wrong Halflings and they got slaughtered later anyway. Saruman manipulated events in order to get rid of Gandalf in the mines of Moria, but he came back even more powerful. The Orcs took that port city, but that was taken back by Aragorn and his ghost army.

And Sauron, for pity’s sake, should have had guards on Mt. Doom 24/7. If that was the only place where the ring could be destroyed, wouldn’t you want the ringbearer to walk into an ambush instead of a clear shot at the lava flow?

Twelve hours of movies and the villains never did a dámņëd thing right. Sheesh.

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