FlaSoxxJim

Meh, Gonzo isn't going anywhere, Turd Blossom isn't going anywhere, Wolfowitz isn't going anywhere. And I'm past the point of caring about it. Every time W expresses his "complete confidence" in these incompetent and/or repugnant people it speaks volumes about how adrift and utterly detached from reality our Commander In Chief really is. 25% approval rating, here we come. Wheeee!

Arrgghh, Party Hearty, Capn!

QUOTE(Queen Prawn @ Apr 24, 2007 -> 10:15 AM) Personally I think Sig's brother, Edgar, is the best looking of the group. Meh, I bet he smells like fish.

That's the guy who used to hang with Ellen until he accidentally killed that hooker in the hotel room, and now he's a big shot Hollywood agent?!!? Weird, wild stuff.

Many thanks all, for prayers and well-wishes. My Buddy Brian is, by all accounts, really lucky to be alive. He had had a brutal headache for a couple of days but like a lot of us he ignored it for as long as he could. Finally he got to the ER and after a misdiagnosis or two, the doctors determined that he had already suffered an aneurysm rupture that had clotted over. Again, Brian is lucky - 1/3 of ruptured aneurysms result in death before the victim gets to the hospital, and another 1/3 die while they are at the hospital. Of the surviving 1/3, the scary online medical pages I'm browsing say that about 40% will suffer long-term neurological impairment. So, like I said, my buddy is still in dicey territory. Anyway, the local doctors thought he was stable and sent him up to the specialists in Tallahassee last night and he underwent several tests today. The tests showed that the aneurysm is a big one - 2 cm or so - and he'll undergo surgery tomorrow afternoon to get at it. For a while they toyed with the idea of going with a more novel/experimental procedure where they surgically insert metal coils to constrict blood flow, but this evening they decided tat they would opt for the more standard procedure to go in and clip it. That sounds fairly routine, but involves removing a bit of skull near the base of the neck so it's obviously still pretty involved. Anyway, i wanted to give an update and again thank everybody for continuing to keep a good person in their thoughts until he comes through this.

QUOTE(Whitewashed in @ Apr 24, 2007 -> 12:44 AM) A person I wouldn't f*** with. And a person I'd sorta' like to. . .

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 11:00 PM) BTW, Sig on the Northwestern is my favorite Captain. I assume that is a Deadliest Catch reference. Only seen bits and pieces here and there.

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 08:24 PM) The National Republican Senate Committee's Multimedia Page. Hmmm. . . Fox News. Fox News. Fox News. Fox News. I detect a pattern.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 08:42 PM) Alaska Crab Fishermen, I get the sentiment, but the green is unnecessary for Alaskan crab fishermen. They have a work-related mortality rate that is way up there. 296 work-related deaths occurred among Alaska's fishermen between 1990-2005. That's a fatality rate 23 times the overall U.S. work-related rate.

QUOTE(Kid Gleason @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 10:00 PM) But recently I have fallen so head over heals in love with the Marvel Essential lines that I have decided to start picking up titles here and there. Ach, I cry whenever I think about it, but until just a few years ago I had managed to hold on to an impressive if smallish collection of Silver Age Marvel 'must have' books. Alas, the second kid came along and in a fit of money panic I sold off G/VG/Fine copies of Spiderman 10, 31 and 57, Daredevil 6 (Wally Wood art), X-Men 5, the Neil Adams Sauron X-Men books (can't remember the numbers), friggin' FF #48 (first friggin' Surfer, got good money for it but would rather have the book back now), a couple Tales of Suspense with Jim Steranko Nick Fury covers and awesome Ditko Dr. Strange second stories, and a few others. Of course, I managed to hang on to my copy of Dazzler #1 so it's not a total loss. I'm a moron.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 01:20 PM) What I was referring to was the Batman and Robin movie by Joel Shumacher. It was a very campy and insane interpretation of Gotham. And dont get me started on the characters. I tried to convince my wife that Bane was actually a cool character in the comics, but it was a lost cause once she saw the movie. QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 01:36 PM) Im not sure, Im gonna have to get my copy back from my friend. Last I read, the zombie hulk removed(read: bit off) the Silver Surfers head to turn him into a zombie. I havent continued since I lent that issue to him. Its a very cool "end to all life as we know it" series Hmm, from the online spoilers I just read, things are quite a bit further along than that. But, to be sure. . . had Galactus made an appearance yet?

Hey, gang. If anybody has some good vibes to send this way, we would be very thankful. I just found out a co-worker and close friend suffered and aneurysm this weekend and is in intensive care in Tallahassee right now. He's stable but it's still dicey. Thanks.

I'm Picasso!!

QUOTE(Texsox @ Apr 23, 2007 -> 09:14 AM) I'm practicing waving, I'm almost the 3rd base couch . . . What, are the moving Harold over to coach 3rd now?

I agree that great lyrics by themselves can't salvage a crappy song. But I do have a personal musical subset of cr@ppy songs that have one really outstanding lyrical hook that keeps me from dismissing it outright. I heard a good example of that last week on the radio. "Rockin' Into the Night" by .38 Special is a craptacular overblown arena anthem wannabe, to be sure, but I always really loved the lyric: Well I ain't no New Messiah – But I'm close enough for rock and roll. That lyric kicks ass. Another one of those unbelievably metacool lyrics is form the otherwise ho-hum BOC's "Burning For You" Time to play B-sides. . . Those 4 words = brilliance. I can't completely toss out songs like that when they have one wicked cool lyric even if the rest of the song is fairly insipid.

Virginia Tech The tragedy of last week notwithstanding, I think Van Halen would have a strong intellectual property infringement case against that VT logo. Unless the school logo came first, then maybe VH had better lawyer up.

QUOTE(juddling @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 08:18 PM) Didn't i see that kid on the 'Cosby Show' ????? Patriotic and xenophobic at the same time.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:32 PM) Speaking of Silver, did you see how Silver Surfer became a Zombie? Quite brutal. The Hulk was the reason why, and he didnt take it easy on the surfer I just read the Wikipedia recap. Sounds like a fun series. It's been 10 years since I've read anything with regularity, so apart from a trade paperback that catches my eye here and there, I miss most everything. Here's a re-imagined title, Camelot 3000, from way way back that some people disliked but I thought was pretty cool. Until this, I think I only knew Brian Bolland from the Judge Dredd UK mag stuff and some covers here and there. I though he did a good job on this series.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 12:18 PM) Is that also a peson under Spiderman, next to Captain Marvel? Yep. No clue. Quicksilver maybe, based on the silver hair?

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 11:58 AM) Clockwise from top left Ironman Hulk Spiderman Human Torch Thing She-Hulk Wolverine Captain America Cyclops Rogue Nightcrawler Magneto is smashed in above Wolverines shoulder, below thing Im drawing a blank on the misty black costumed guy in the middle, and the guy under Things outstretched arm I'm pretty sure that is Captain marvel - black and female version - if you zoom in. She has breasts and those funny sleeve cape things and a zomboe 'fro. Tjere's also a Zombie Colossus under Thing's armpit.

QUOTE(BearSox @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 10:56 AM) I dont like em... I think they're really imaginative. To me, they're very evocative of sort of fantastical and playful, chock-full-of-anachronism George Melies films from the turn of the century. What the future would look lime to one with a late 19th century London world view.

Indeed, those are quite nice. However, nothing compares to the brilliance of Steve Odekerk as far as the re-imagined Star Wars Universe is concerned.

QUOTE(kyyle23 @ Apr 22, 2007 -> 09:44 AM) Ahhhhh Bush's true colors. Where is Kap when you need him? (I bet no one knows what mine really is. Hint:Star Wars) Hmm, just taking a wild guess here, but I think it might be some Star Wars fan art depicting Han and Chewie as they might have appeared had the SW saga taken place in Victorian London, ala' a Gotham by gaslight kind of thang. How'd I do? (Congrats, you made a Dave's longbox reader out of me a year or so ago).

Baby likes his White Sox, Dammit!

Jas, For all you do, this Smilee's for you. (Yeah, I'm a cheap sonuvab****.) Have good one.