Monthly Archives: May 2009

The San Francisco Retreat!

May 7, 2009
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First The Adirondacks, then Vermont, and then Rhode Island. Tomorrow morning Aaron, Robin and I will be flying out to San Francisco to meet Jenn who’s studying at Berkley! This will be my first time in California (actually this will be my first time west of the Mississippi River) and I’m super excited! I don’t know much about San Francisco outside of what I learned watching Full House and eating Rice-A-Roni, but I suspect we’ll have a great time! I’ll try and Tweet a lot to keep you guys updated, but I’ve also lined up a few guest posts, which you will surely love! See you guys in a few days!

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Kingdom Come – Review

May 6, 2009
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So I finished Kingdom Come on the way to work today. It was seriously amazing. I loved it. Like Watchmen, I found myself thinking about it at work, and dying to get on the train home so I could read some more. And while I also really enjoyed The Dark Knight Returns, I can’t say I felt that same sense of excitement to get back to it everyday.

A few people voiced some concern that I might not like it since I wouldn’t know all the characters, but that wasn’t the case at all. Yes, I could tell that there was lots of inside information hidden within the artwork, but I was still able to pick up on a lot of it, just from having a decent knowledge of pop culture. I was also pretty proud of myself for picking up little tid bits like the Gulag looking like the lair of the Legion of Doom from the 70′s cartoon show. But now I just need to go through this site that Avitable showed me so I can pick up on everything I missed. The only time I was disappointed with my lack of knowledge was with “the reveal” at the end. I feel like I should have gasped, but I didn’t. I had to go immediately to wikipedia to see what all the fuzz was about.

There were two things that made this book really special for me. One being the huge scope of the work. I love epic stories. I love books with world ending stakes with the fate of humanity hanging in the balance. I can appreciate smaller adventure stories, but it’s the grand epics that really get me going. The second thing being the artwork. Every single panel was incredible. They were like Norman Rockwell paintings, but with superheros. There was so much detail, that I could just stare at them for hours. And I loved the Golden Era costumes and sensibilities, particularly The Flash and his constant motion. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a new book to read, even if it’s your first comic book, because it was just that amazing.

Next up is another one from Polt, Batman: The Long Halloween.

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Things I Don’t Like to Do:

May 5, 2009
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1. Pour candy out of an M&M’s bag into somebody else’s hand. It’s just so awkward. How much do you pour in? If you don’t pour enough, it’s insulting and you seem cheap with your candy. If you pour too much, you each go “Whoa!” but then you never get the excess candy back. It’s a lose-lose situation.

2. Tell people the time. No, I’m not trying to keep the time from you, but reading an analog clock on the spot always freaks me out, and I always stumble as if I’ve never read a clock face before. And exactly how precise do I need to be? Will a quarter-to suffice if it’s really twenty-to?

3. Talk on the phone. It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you. I will text message you till the cows come home (where did those damn cows go anyway?) but talking on the phone limits my ability to multi-task. I’m not even that crazy about instant messaging anymore. I can’t even tell you the last time I was on AIM (best screenname ever: YodaLeiaHeeHoo). The instant gratification of chatting is not something I’m willing to provide, especially when there is so much good television to be watched.

4. Laugh at your stupid jokes. If I hear “Looks like we got on the local.” on the elevator one more time, I’m going to blow my your brains out. Especially if you’re on the floor above me and you say this as you stop on my floor to pick me up on the way down. I’m terribly sorry to inconvenience you, your highness! And seriously, we’ve all heard it a million times. Be original!

5. Wait in line behind kids to get my haircut. I spend $12 on my haircut at a local unisex barber and it take about 10 minutes to do me (LOL: do me) but when I walk in and there is a mom there with her 17 children, I go insane. Sorry Mommy Bloggers! But seriously, waiting behind your kids drives me crazy. They take just as long as adults, if not longer, and they always travel in packs.

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Priorities

May 4, 2009
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This is paraphrased from a couple conversations me and my Mom had over the past few days:

Mom: I realized today that you’re going to be in San Francisco on Mother’s Day.
Craig: Oops, sorry about that.

A few days later…

Craig: I might go see Star Trek after work on Friday with the TV Group.
Mom: You can’t, you’re gonna be in San Francisco next weekend.
Craig: What?! Noooooooo!

Yeah, she wasn’t crazy about that.

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine – Review

May 3, 2009
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I saw Wolverine with some friends on Friday. It’s not getting the best reviews and the commercials weren’t doing much to boost my confidence (seriously, that slow motion jump to the helicopter looked ridiculous) but I hoped that it would at least be some good stupid fun, and it totally was. I don’t know much about the comics so I can’t be all like “OMG! The movie version of Deadpool was an abomination! My childhood has been raped!” All I know is the movie was pretty much nonstop action from beginning to end. Well choreographed action no less, and that helicopter scene wasn’t as ridiculous as it looked in the commercials and ended up being pretty cool. I thought Liev Schreiber as Sabertooth was a great villain, but Danny Huston as Willian Stryker was totally lame and not threatening in any way, especially already knowing that he’s going to survive so he can show up in X-Men 2. All in all, Wolverine is certainly no worse than the lackluster X-Men 3, and I think you can enjoy it as long as you know going in that you’re just getting ridiculous mutant action for a little under two hours.

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