A piece of gossip that will shake you to your very foundations!

A piece of gossip that will shake you to your very foundations!

NPH is gay.

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Of COURSE it's my favorite organ!

Of COURSE it's my favorite organ!

I'm not sure how many of you are Weird Al fans and, further, how many of you have heard his new album. It's probably his best since Off the Deep End, and there's one song in particular to which I'm drawn. The song is called "Pancreas" and below is the video for it.





I know what you're thinking: of course the diabetic has a soft spot for a song about the pancreas. In response to you I say, " Stuff it, cats!" We've all loved and lost, and this is just another case of not knowing what I had until it was gone. I'll always have a fond spot in my heart for my heart's southern neighbor. Sure it's now an inert organ-y lump, but I'll always cherish the time we spent together when it still breaking down all those booze carbs in college.

I'm virtually certain I short-circuited my pancreas during those times, and that's a guilt I'll always have to live with.

Watching:

"MPD Psycho II"

Reading:

A bunch of comics that lead up to and include DC's Infinite Crisis. Trying to get an overview of DC's history is like taking a two semester survey of world history in college. You're just trying to get a passing grade because the sheer volume of information is impossible to digest upfront.

JLA Vol 2: American Dreams, Grant Morrison, Howard Porter & John Dell

The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore

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A Halloween so good, it's terrifying! Aaaaaaaah!!!

A Halloween so good, it's terrifying! Aaaaaaaah!!!

A holiday in pictures:



The pumpkin.


Carving the Iron Pumpkin. We found the thickest-skinned pumpkin in the Greater Los Angeles Area. What the pumpking didn't plan on is the discovery of its one weakness: leverage.


Designing a masterpiece.


The work of art in that transient time between pumpkin patch and roadway graphitti. Really, it's the whole process of growth to smashed on a sidewalk that's the work, not just the time it sits on the ledge outside or on the coffee table with a candle in its gutted insides. To fully appreciate the carved pumpkin, one must observe the work with the proper scale.

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The costumes.


The inspiration for the following Halloween costumes. The "Jonny Quest" team, minus Dr. Benton Quest who was obviously kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Dr. Zin. From left to right: Hadji, Race, Dr. Benton Quest (behind the "?"), Bandit (the dog) and Jonny himself.


Race in action!


Hadji and Bandit in action!


The team! In action!



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How could I forget??

How could I forget??

Cards win! Cards win!

I can't believe I forgot to mention what everyone surely already had in their minds: the St. Louis Cardinals won the World Series. I am le happy. Perhaps even l'ecstatic.

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Pictures of last night's Halloween bash are forth-coming.

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Evidence of my death, et cetera, et cetera

Evidence of my death, et cetera, et cetera

Okay. So, like, a ba-jillion things have happened between now and my last post.

I visited the Midwest two different times in as many weeks this month.

My sister got married (thus accounting for one of the Midwest trips).

The last issue of Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers mini-series finally came out. (So it's not monumental, but try waiting six months before you get to read the last chapter of your next book. You get the gist.)

I jumped to a different department at work allowing me to ditch the walkie and spend my days in relative--if more work-intensive--relaxation.

I contracted the plague while on one of the Midwest trips. (The other Midwest trip. Another wedding.) It's the sickest I've been in years. The night before the wedding, I was up for two hours in the middle of the night with cold sweats. Bogus, man. It was sucky.

It's Halloween today, and I know that make for more than a few happy friends. Speaking of Halloween and friends, my LA group of friends and I will be attending tonight's festivities as the "Jonny Quest" crew. I'll be Race, naturally. Less naturally, Jessie will be Hadji.

Other than the stuff already listed (and more that I'm sure I've forgotten), I've just been a lazy hunk o' crap. I took some time and started catching up on my media intake. Below is just what I was able to remember absorbing in the last month.

Watching:

The Prestige

"MPD Psycho"

"Entourage: Season One"

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

"Arrested Development: Season Three"

The Station Agent

"Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law - Season One"

Little Buddha

The Proposition

Best in Show

Fargo

Ray

Reading:

The Forest of Uruvela (Buddha, Vol. 4), Osamu Tezuka (Finished.)

The Maxx: Volume Three, Sam Keith & Bill Messner-Loebs (Finished.)

The Maxx: Volume Four, Sam Keith (Finished.)

X-Force Volume 1: New Beginning, Peter Milligan & Mike Allred (Finished.)

X-Force Volume 2: Final Chapter, Peter Milligan & Mike Allred (Finished.)

JLA Vol. 1: New World Order, Grant Morrison, Howard Porter & John Dell

The Meme Machine, Susan Blackmore

Playing:

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney (DS) (Beat it.)

New Super Mario Bros. (DS) (Beat it.)

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time (DS) (Beat it.)

Killer 7 (The Cube) (Beat it.)

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (The Cube)

Super Monkey Ball 2 (The Cube)

Contact (DS)

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (360)

So that's what's been happening. Hopefully it won't be the next Age before I update again. We'll see how often the blog bug bites, though.

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