Oh, for heaven's sake, LJ.  What have you done to my layout??

Those family and friends most everyone seems to have that take for granted you'll make them a priority in your life, but then treat you like an optional convenience in theirs.  Yeah, those.  Excuse me while I attempt to will myself into an alternate reality somewhere until I feel like dealing with it again.

Saw it this weekend and it's a blast.   Great acting, fun plot, awesome special effects that manage to be awesome without trying to own the entire movie.  Helen Mirren with a machine gun is a bonus.   And I seriously don't know why Mary-Louise Parker isn't in more movies.

blog.moviefone.com/2010/10/04/superman-movies-that-never-happened/

Sadly, the one that did happen wasn't better than the ones that didn't.  I need Hollywood to stop raping the comics now.  Seriously.  This is why we can't have nice things.

Decided to reread the Southern Vampire Mysteries, since it's been a while and I want to remember what came before a little better before I read the last book.  Wow, I forgot how much less likable Bill is in the books than they made him in True Blood.  And how much more fun Eric's character is in the books.  I sort of wish they'd left his and Eric's ( Read more... )

Got a sudden craving for video games other than the Sims, since I've decided Sims 3 is a lost cause for me.  I can't connect with it at all and keep going back to Sims 2.  So, I decided to try a couple of the more interesting looking recent games for the PC ( Read more... )

This is what I got from Uncanny 523:

( Yeah. If this is their greatest Hope, the mutant race is doomed. )

...did Magneto just call Kitty a bimbo in Yiddish in the new Uncanny?? o.O

( Possibly minor Siege spoilers, but not much )

I was pretty vocal about my massive hate for Carey's writing on Uncanny for most of his term, despite liking him on other titles like Ultimate Fantastic Four. It honestly didn't seem like it was even the same writer when you compared the two. I was glad to see that, after Adjectiveless morphed into Legacy post-Messiah Complex, that his writing ( Read more... )