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This was all over comics sites earlier, but I figured some of you reading this would appreciate it: Stephen Colbert won the election for President in the Marvel Comics universe.

Well... sort of...

Today's post on What Were They Thinking? is worth checking out for the comments: Dude. Thor's Hammer.

CBR has an article on the Farscape comic book being written by Rockne O'Bannon. The first 4-issue miniseries, starting in November, is being described as a direct sequel to Peacekeeper Wars.


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1. Finally took the time to finish reading Victory of Eagles. Very good -- on a level with Throne of Jade, which had previously been my favorite in the Temeraire series ( Read more... )

Re-watched some classic cartoons yesterday.  It started when alenxa and I were talking about Duck Dodgers at breakfast, and wondered when it had been made.  That led to an IMDB lookup, which mentioned it was #4 on a list of 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time from 1994, and that had me looking up "One Froggy Evening" to verify that it was in fact the ( Read more... )

1. I've been going through old comic books looking for Hostess ads from the late 1970s.  They had these one-page stories where a hero would run into a really lame villain, and be able to stop them by distracting them with Twinkies, or fruit pies, or cupcakes.  Some of them are total crack, and there's a web archive with snarky commentary.  I got ( Read more... )

1. House-hunting continues. Just about every place we've put an offer in on has gone for ~10K over the asking price, so we're starting to factor that in. Looked at yet another condo in a complex we've looked at repeatedly: fantastic condition (except for the door, which looked like it had been kicked in -- alenxa figures it was probably a forced repo ( Read more... )

Sunday was mostly errands -- replacing the lost rice cooker (In the rush to clear things out of the old apartment, I walked into the kitchen 3 or 4 times to grab or check things, saw a box sitting in an open cabinet, thought "I need to grab that on the next trip," and promptly forgot about it each time), getting stakes to train the morning glories ( Read more... )

After spending Friday night and most of the daylight hours Saturday and Sunday moving furniture and boxes around, putting stuff on shelves or in closets, hooking up electronics, sorting stuff to keep/sell/donate/take to storage, and generally trying to make the new place liveable, I decided to just relax on Monday ( Read more... )