Greetings Earthlings!

Mark Evanier writes about this I laughed out loud when I watched the segment on Countdown with Keith Olberman last night. Read more here at Mark Evanier's News From Me.

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While at work the other night I had an odd thought. What if the Firefly 'Verse is the future of Earth 2. I know Joss said there are no aliens in the 'Verse, but bear with me.

In Earth 2 the stations are controlled by people that want to make a perfect society and seems to be corrupt. Not unlike the Alliance. In Earth 2 the Earth has been used up and we need a new place to live. In Firefly they refer to Earth as the Earth-that-was.

Perhaps the Terrians passing on their abilities to to Uly and perhaps the other Syndrome Children is what allowed humans to develop the technology to terraform planets? Like I said I know Joss said there are no aliens in the 'Verse, but I still think its a neat idea.

From Newsarama.com ,,,,
"Claremont’s second X-related project comes as somewhat more of a surprise, as Marvel has informed Newsarama that he will take over as regular writer of the ongoing series Exiles, joining penciler Paul Pelletier as the regular creative team with July’s issue #84."

Well looks like I will be done reading TPBs of this series when the collection containing issue #83 comes out

Is it just me or is it starting to seem that being the Commander of the Pegasus starting look like being the drummer for Spinal Tap?

Amazing how well a random meme describes my mood the last couple days. Not really in a bad mood just more of a low tolerance for people's bullshit last few days.


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Gordy came over tonight and he & I went out to Outback and the Barnes & Noble. He had a gift card that was still burning a hole in his pocket from X-mas.

Wandering around I picked up Cinderella and Wal-Mart: the High Cost of Low Price for Ann. And I picked up War of the Worlds Season 1 for myself.

Gordy wandering around picked up a Johnny Cash CD and found wonder of wonders Hawk the Slayer! For those of you unfamiliar with this gem, it was a British movie that came out way back in 1980.

This movie like Archer:Fugitive From the Empire and Sword & the Sorcerer are great badwrong goodfun movies. The SFX in Hawk the Slayer are awful even for 1980.

The movie features Jack Palance as Volton the big evil guy who hisses all the time while wearing a fantasy version of Darth Vader's mask.

The others include:

Patricia Quinn as the Sorceress who is better known as Magenta in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

William Morgan Sheppard as Ranulf the one hand man with the repeating crossbow, Sheppard has done a lot of genre TV and movie work including playing Blank Reg on Max Headroom, some misc parts in Star Trek TV, Dr Zito on MacGyver, the Professor on SeaQuest DSV, and the first Soul Hunter on Babylon 5.

Bernard Bresslaw played Ralf the Giant (who wasnt very giant). And also know for playing Rell the Cyclops in Krull.

There are other characters but no-one of any note at all. Except for John Terry as the title character Hawk, the Slayer! ho now plays Jack's father on Lost. We kept looking at the screen trying to figure where we knew him from. We ended up looking on IMDB to figure it out.

A lot of gaming geeks in my youth thought this movie was the bomb, because the wanted the "Mind Sword" that Hawk wielded. Shot the bow superfast like Crow the Elf or have Ranulf's repeating crossbow. These items showed up in many AD&D campaigns.

Ann had never seen it before so enjoyed the badness of the film and laughed along with Gordy & I. We joked that we needed to watch Krull, Archer: Fugitive From the Empire, and Sword & the Sorcerer as a marathon of movie badness.

Happy Birthday Ghost-Who-Walks!! On this day back in 1936 the Phantom first appeared in the newspaper. This has been one those things I did really get into until my 30's but have enjoyed since and pick up what collections of the older stuff I can find. I just wish someone imported the Australian published newer issues. The Moonstone Comics stuff has been kind of hit or miss for me in quality.

I always liked the generational aspect of the Phantom, makes it easy to to stories with the character in other times without resorting to time machines or "imaginary stories".

This sounds kind of goofy to me. But what do I know I am a handsome fella. Right? Right?

( It gets ugly behind this cut.... )

Its 20 degrees (before windchill) right now and that will be the high for the day! By later this afternoon it will be 5 degrees or lower! Yay! I hate winter....

And in other news George Clooney's Batman costume is for sale.

( Only $300K you can have George Clooney's nipples! ).

This just tickled me silly.

( And here I thought she was so smart... )