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So Mom and I went for the super crack this morning - a trip to The Painted Pony in La Porte. I asked Mom if she wanted to come with me to the fabric store and she was kind of indifferent to the usual places, then I said, "Or I might trek out to La Porte," and she changed her mind. The rooms full of quilter's cottons call to us, my precious calls ( Read more... )

Yesterday:
me: I just skimmed a comic book review site in which they discussed an issue in which Spider-Man kills his wife by having sex with her and infecting her with his radioactive sperm.
illogicalvulcan: If that better or worse that Superman blowing Lois Lane's head off?
me: it's a reworking of the Superman title. what is wrong with these guys?   (the ( Read more... )

Today I had a sudden urge to look up the strip of Narbonic, Shaenon Garrity's brilliant and hysterical mad scientist comic, in which my super-intelligient gerbil alter-ego gets zapped by the space laser.
For being a pacifist, appropriately enough, although I'd forgotten that.  Tee hee.

Mom sent me this one:
Brewster Rockit: Behold the Power of Cheese.

So between reading Fables and going forth to The Brothers Grimm, I have had a surfeit of fairy tales in my weekend.

I absolutely adored Fables, and cannot wait for the next volume (due out in January!). The film was less fantastic, but still a wonderful romp with gorgeous eye candy and really creepy effects. Wowsa ( Read more... )

Ok, so I decided to go see what this whole V for Vendetta thing was about.

Wow.

I read it last night, cover to cover. I was very impressed. I am even more impressed about the movie trailer, now, which I first saw on the big screen before The Island.

p.s. The Island was really good, too.

Now I'm reading Watchmen and pretty much enjoying ( Read more... )