Sometimes I despair of my love for comic books, especially my love for comic books produced by “The Big Two” comics publishers in the U.S. (DC and Marvel); and sometimes, once in a great while, I read something that justifies my love (uh...), not to say reinforces and encourages it.

The latest such example: The DC Vertigo series The Losers, ( Read more... )

It finally cost over thirty dollars to fill the fuel tank of my car -- excuse me, my wife's car. (I haven't been able to afford a car of my own since my "don't laugh, it's paid for" Ford Taurus bit the dust.)

I drive a Geo Metro, which is a variation of the "supermini" Suzuki Cultus marketed by GM (thank you, Wikipedia); what was previously ( Read more... )

Yesterday (Wednesday, 21 May) was quite the trifecta for oil news:

Not only did crude oil hit a record high of U.S. $134.15 a barrel before settling at $133.17 (and Bloomberg's reporting today that it hit $135.04 in after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange...); not only did executives at the U.S.'s five largest oil companies take ( Read more... )