Spent the afternoon with mauizen6, the last chance I'll have to see her before she and her hubby move to Ohio at the end of the month. Then had dinner with the parents', then came home. Did a bit of work on the Strange Detractors #2 script, but not nearly enough. Brain no workie. So to bed I go, to get a fresh start in the a.m.
Put an X beside the things you've done and remove the X beside things you haven't done. Repost if you like!
() Gone on a blind date (x) Skipped school (to go to a Yankee game) (x) Watched someone die (sort of -- I was in the room) (x) Been to Canada (x) Been to Europe () Been to Mexico (x) Been to Florida (x) Been on a plane (I was tempted to not check this, and point out that I have been in a plane; thank you George Carlin...) (x) Been lost (x) Been on the opposite side of the country (x) Gone to Washington, DC (x) Swam in the ocean (x) Cried yourself to sleep (x) Played cops and robber or cowboys and indians () Recently colored with crayons (not recently....) (x) Sang Karaoke (x) Paid for a meal with coins only (to be fair, dollar coins were involved, thanks to postal machines that only dispensed coins as change) (x) Done something you told yourself you wouldn't () Made prank phone calls () Laughed until some kind of beverage came out of your nose (x) Caught a snowflake on your tongue (x) Danced your heart out () Written a letter to Santa Claus (x) Been kissed under the mistletoe (x) Watched the sunrise with someone (several someones, actually) (x) Blown bubbles (x) Gone ice-skating () Been skinny dipping outdoors (x) Gone to the movies (x) Sat outside in the rain (it was waiting for a tow truck....) (x) Lived one of your dreams
I haven't been paying as much attention to the comics industry as I used to. I had to stop buying comics completely, as me walking into a comics store was like an alcoholic walking into a bar. I couldn't just buy one, and I couldn't (and still can't) afford to buy a huge pile of them, and I'd inevitably wind up with a huge pile.
Because of this, I had no idea what Jim Balent -- an artist who first came to prominence drawing DC's Catwoman comic book in the 1990s, and one of the purveyors of the "bad girl" trend of that era -- was doing with himself these days.
Feast day of St. Hilary of Poitiers, patron saint invoked against snakebites
THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL
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No victor believes in chance. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Current Music
"Everybody Looks Good at the Starting Line" by Paul Thorn
Quite simply one of the finest actors of our time, he never failed to give a performance that wasn't perfectly intense. He's most famous for The Prisoner, of course, though the role of his that blew me away most was a more recent one, as Longshanks in Braveheart.
mauizen6, the last chance I'll have to see her before she and her hubby move to Ohio at the end of the month. Then had dinner with the parents', then came home. Did a bit of work on the Strange Detractors #2 script, but not nearly enough. Brain no workie. So to bed I go, to get a fresh start in the a.m.