Musings of a Terrifying Space Monkey

13:02 Always thought "Kill 'em all and let God sort them out" was made up. That it is historical does not fill me with love for the human race. #

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME CASTLE IS THE MOST AWESOME SHOW ON TV RIGHT NOW?



The proof is in the tightpants, people!

22:59 It occurs to me that if I keep rewatching episodes of the same show, I will never catch up on the various shows I am behind on. Dilemma! #

13:16 Halloween in Belgium! Hm... *ponders* Belgioween! Yes, in costume. #

16:37 Stores around here are just really not getting into the Halloween spirit, apparently. #

16:00 Is this the most terrible fanfic to find? An intriguing premise, but written so badly that it's hard to keep going... #

18:04 Looking through old stories I wrote, and I do so love pompous titles. "Fluttering Above the Abyss on Gossamer Wings." Heh. #

18:06 Also feel a new comic coming on. New story ideas are like the cold I'm recovering from--they leave you very little energy for anything else. #

1) Have someone* discover a show a few years old and fall totally in love with it.

2) Have that person look up the DVD's and discover them to be affordable enough that the person in his excitement is eager to buy them immediately even though he really shouldn't be buying more DVD's.

3) Have the person look a little further and discover that this set (the British one) may look like the (admittedly pricier) American one, but has for some reason had all the extras taken out even though that Region 1 set with the extras came out years earlier.

4) Have the person be conflicted and annoyed enough that he doesn't buy anything.

Grrr.

On the plus side, was that a Farscape: The Complete Series I spied on Amazon.com? Hmmm...



* Me.

20:20 Yay, lost most of a day trying to stop aggressive spyware from eating my computer! Because I really needed that right now! #

11:06 A cold? What the it's-probably-freezing-there-now-yeah, health? #

21:18 Woohooo. On holiday, but there's wi-fi! Hello Belgians. I am in ur country, eatin ur fries. #

21:19 Just had a three-person MSN conversation with people in the same room. We either rock or fail. Don't know which, but we do it hard. #

18:54 Can someone stop me from wanting to participate in NaNoWriMo, plz k tnx? #

11:48 I love how EVERY Marvel/Disney story starts with, "No, really, it's not a joke." #disneymarvel #

18:29 I'm away from the Internet for ONE freaking afternoon and frakking Disney buys fricking Marvel? Whut? #

21:47 Mixed feelings on the Marvel/Disney thing, but the mass hysteria in the comment sections is providing hours of entertainment. #

For over 40 years, the X-Men and its mutant race have served as a metaphor for things as wide and varied as racism, puberty, homosexuality, the civil rights movement and the struggle for legitimacy by fringe subcultures.

Never before, however, has the franchise presented a metaphor that so aptly summarizes my life as these two panels...
( By Chris Claremont and Paul Smith. )

01:07 Got more work done today than in rest of week combined. Sadly, more of a comment on rest of week than on today. #

I'm reading this book on mythology (okay, so it's Mythology for Dummies, don't laugh, it's a good refresher even if these dummies apparently need things repeated a lot) and a couple of things jumped out at me.

1) Heracles and his heroic ilk were the superhero comics of their day. (All right, not only of their day.) Seriously, they had their origin stories where they got or found out about their superpowers, they lived among the normal people and performed heroic feats, they sometimes died but never permanently if they were popular, they had ongoing series where the new writers weren't always terribly concerned about past continuity... (I would have loved to sit in on a continuity debate among Heracles fans in ancient Greece.) HellHades, when one of the superheroes needed a Golden Fleece, they even formed a Justice League-style all-star team!

2) Half of these myths are bad fanfics. Have you ever seen any of the thousands of fanfics where Harry Potter characters (with or without rational reason) decide to move to America, because really, asking those poor fic writers to write about a country they don't know (except, well, from the books they're writing fics about) is really too much to ask? Or fanfics of any fandom which create entire backstories and new sagas for minor characters? That's exactly what Virgil did in his Aeneid. He took a minor character from the Iliad--someone who was a nice enough guy but didn't have much depth yet--and made him travel to his own land. I bet Virgil went on many a rant about the ridiculousness of Paris/Helen. It's too bad none of his Achilles/Odysseus slashfics were preserved, but I suppose they were a bit too graphic for the general audience.

3) It is somewhat disturbing to see in how many creation myths man took form from the ejaculated semen of a masturbating god. Humanity should see a shrink about its self-image.

14:00 Headaches should be outlawed. Just saying. #

Oh, LJ, I'm sorry I've neglected you, really, I am. I've been terribly busy. It's only that we have so little to talk about--you know I can be a private person sometimes. Besides, I don't have a life, I was just being considerate not bothering you about the boring stuff.


Hm? Well, how was I supposed to know I have to tell you everything that happens in my life? And why do I? Don't you trust me? It's not like you ever talk to me, and you've been in my bookmarks all along.


What, you have been updating me on my friends constantly? Hey, not my fault if I didn't notice--like I said, I've been busy. With important stuff, that's what. Oh, LJ, let's not fight. Come here and gimme a hug.


What's that? Your friend said she saw me with another networking site? Honey, that was just a forum, it meant nothing, I swear! Who said that? Was it MySpace? Aha, I thought so! She's just bitter that I used her for her comic book news page and abandoned her when she laid off the staff who updated that!


That's all right, LJ, I forgive you. Just trust me a little next time, okay? If your friends tell you I've been cheating on you again, they're probably just jealous of you. I'm a one-networking site man. So you just ignore Twitter entirely.


Hm? No, Twitter was just a random example, I didn't mean anything by it. Really? After all we've just said, you're already doubting me again? I'm hurt, LJ. I'm not sure if I want to see you right now.


Yes yes, fine, I'll forgive you this time. Don't cry. Come here and we'll celebrate being together again. Make-up posting is the best posting.

01:05 Hello, Twitter. No, I haven't forgotten you. Just... slightly ignored you. #

14:47 Can anyone yell as well as Brian Blessed? "You could be in 300." "I could. I'm too loud, I was too loud for it. I scared all the Spartans." #

17:04 Did my annual vampirism check-up. Couple hours of direct sunlight--if I start burning, my vampirism obviously hasn't cleared up yet. #

21:17 You know, once I read long novels and short comics in between. Now? Reading an 80 page novel and a 1088 page comic collection. #

21:43 #rejectprop8 Ugh. I'm honestly quite surprised at the decision. But then, I'm rational. (Compared to some.) (Some in California.) #

11:21 Re-watched TransFormers on DVD. Quite a mediocre movie, really. And yet, so slagging awesome. Childhood nostalgia is a wondrous thing. #

17:27 My job today is to finish the book I'm reading. As jobs go? No so bad. #

17:36 Marvel Comics, sometimes you just plain rock. A "Marvel Bromance" collection? Heeeee. #

17:40 What's up with leaving the new New Mutants covers out of the solicitations, though? Bad form. The people, meaning me, have a need to know! #

16:51 Had birthday celebration. Had @ccke over all weekend. Had presents! Depite two Twitterers having to cancel, there was ever so much win. #

16:52 And LASER TAG. My ownage at LASER TAG deserves a separate tweet, because it was massive. #