I loved Batman Begins. When The Dark Knight was announced, I was nervous. Sequels are almost never the equal of the original after all. But then The Dark Knight was amazing too. So when Nolan announced The Dark Knight Rises, I was just plain excited. I wish I'd held onto my normal sequel reservations, because I think I wouldn't have been quite ( Read more... )

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I don't really have terribly much of interest to say at the moment. I spent the morning catching up on Penny Arcade and Girl Genius (which always leaves me frustrated when I get to the last posted page), and coming up with a new strength training plan ( Read more... )

--Wonder Woman creator, William Moulton Marston

While poking around the internet I ran across this article about all the ways in which Wonder Woman fails to be a great superhero. It points to a similar article which is only worth reading if you really have it out for Wonder Woman--most of its examples of why Wonder Woman sucks are from the Golden ( Read more... )

Saturday night a bunch of us headed out to Charlottesville to see Ego Likeness and Bella Morte play. The opening band was a local duo called Tacit Act with a heavy VNV Nation influence. They were good, and had an excellent stage presence, which is more than I've come to expect from openers ( Read more... )

I'm a sassy girl, I'm a pop machine.
--Ontogeny, Jason Webley

Birthday festivities began around 12:15 a.m. when it came up in conversation that it was my birthday. An impromptu chorus of Happy Birthday was sung, and when I jokingly demanded my cake, baronmind took off like a shot. Which frightened me. He returned shortly thereafter with a ( giant sugar cookie )

They say everybody writes a journal with the hope that someday somebody will read it. I think most people in the explicitly-public LJ-land list interests in the hope that someday somebody will ask about them. This meme, like a dating service, turns all that hoping-somebody-will-ask into a straightforward request. Viva communication!Leave a comment ( Read more... )

just don't say I didn't warn you.In other news, I pass roadkill with some frequency on my commute to and from work. Since I'm on my bike, I'm usually going slowly and my morbid curiosity means that I generally manage to identify it. Raccoons and groundhogs are bad enough, but today, just a couple blocks from the house, I passed--what was once--a ( Read more... )

It's no longer just an option. Now I need to make a Jägerkin costume

--Aim For The Head, Creature Feature

padmaclynne is right. This is a fantastic meme ( Read more... )