Hang in there...

is what's written on a picture of a cat hanging on a branch in my "cell" at work, put there by a coworker...he's so hilarious... I also put up a poster of Yoda I had hanging around my house there. He's so inspiring (right next to the Darth Vader Build a Bear...I wonder who'd win in a fight...5-2 odds on the short green one.) I have closed the blinds and the feeling of vertigo being on the 13th floor is starting to disappear.

My kid is turning into a real vidiot. (This is a real word out there in internet land...) I have to keep the TV off now or else he won't play with anything, and he won't eat. That's all I need, is to have a child just like his parents.

Why does everybody make fun of Aquaman? He's really strong and lives underwater. Makes fish do what he wants whenever he wants. He's even a king (of Atlantis) AND he has a hot redheaded wife. Seriously, why is he the butt of all jokes on Family Guy, the Simpsons and the 40 Year Old Virgin? I remember that his 1970's comic book was drawn by one of my personal favourite artists, Jim Aparo. (I wonder what happened to him? I can Wiki him...Died 2005. I guess he's not doing anything new then. Well, this beer's for Jim!) Aparo was the definitive Batman artist of the 1970's, 80's and 90's, IMHO. He was the guy who did the death of Jason Todd, which is the defining moment of the 1980's Batman after Crisis. That concept was great by DC, setting up a telephone system for voting whether Robin lived or died, 20 years before Idol!

Speaking about artists, I wonder what Larry Elmore, (drew D&D images in the early 80's, and Snarfquest in Dragon magazine) is doing now? Still alive, and does the occasional card for Magic: The Gathering. I just read that he has done a good deal of the covers for the Dragonlance series too. I'll check the books I have downstairs. He also did the cover for the Everquest (the videogame) box. I also like the work of Rebecca Guay, (M:TG and D&D and I even have one card illustrated by her in my small Middle-Earth CCG collection). She is the one who illustrates most of the female Elf cards (Schwing!) that I tend to like very much, and served as the inspiration for the wardrobe for Arwen in the Lord of the Rings movies (Bet you didn't think I'd go there!)

I wonder how Buffy would look with slightly pointy ears....anyways....OK I have to say it, how did a guy like Nicholas Brandon stand it with girls that looked like Sarah Michelle Geller, Allyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter, and Emma Caulfield around? He must have been a true professional, At least Anthony Head was older, and able to resist, one hopes. By the way, love him in Merlin (the series.)

Man, 80's girl bands were so much better than most of what's out there now.

Have a great night...and always check your popcorn bowl for ants first (don't ask)