Memes!

[whiskyinmind]

First - the VisualDNA thing that I nabbed from all my flist:


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Been on a bunch of journals so far: Comment and I'll give you three of your icons and three of your interests to explain.

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[bastardsnow]

1. From the webcomic Penny Arcade. That isn't the exact quote they used -- I don't recall what it is -- but I feel it appropriately gets across the message that sometimes needs to be sent.

2. From the comic Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, one of the first real *good* comics I ever read. I love that one. The smiley face is a recurring theme throughout the comic, kind of demented, but happy (sort of like the society in the comic). And the middle finger... well, I mean, the whole thing is just kind of fun.

3. Also from the comic Transmetropolitan. The main character Spider Jerusalem, who's kind of like if you took Hunter Thompson, threw him into a massively fucked up future and shaved his head bald. And gave him guns, and the will and ability to seriously fuck people up. He is, in a word, *awesome*.

The Exiles is a comic produced by Marvel, and it's kind of like... well, it's kind of like if Quantum Leap were on crack, and instead of backwards and forwards in time, Sam hopped around to various dimensions beating bad guys and putting those worlds to right.

Fables is a comic written by Bill Willingham and drawn by Mark Buckingham, and published by Vertigo. It's an ongoing series. The creatures and characters from the lands of the fables (Snow White, Old King Cole, Three Little Pigs, a shitton of others) are living in modern day New York, because their home lands were overrun by the evil Adversary. It's really freaking good.

Baseball I heard someone say recently, and I'm not sure I disagree, that if baseball were introduced into society today, nobody would care. However, it was introduced into society over a hundred years ago (which is a long time by American standards) and has a rich and wonderful history to go with it. And more than that, I think, watching the games, learning the history, learning how to know what to do, what to recognize, what to look for, it's a way for fathers to bond with their sons. It's something that two men can get emotional about and still feel like 'Men.' Which is kind of dumb. But sports in general, at least in America, I think, have long been away for fathers and sons to show their love for each other, and baseball in particular is something that men of my father's generation clung to because neither basketball nor football were popular yet, so it's a way for their kids to connect.

[whiskyinmind]

Awesome - so baseball is to you what rugby is to me? A family sport, in a way?

[bastardsnow]

Right, I think so, pretty much.