Greetings Earthlings!

I would like to wish a Happy Birthday to America. Everyone enjoy the fireworks and dont blow your fingers off.

Saw Batman Begins this afternoon (yay! movie passes)and I didnt like it as much as some have.

I found the fight scenes to be a jumbled mess. And Ken Watanabe was wasted as Ra's Al Ghul and prefered the comic version of Henri Ducard, but then I am a comic geek.

Christian Bale, Michael Caine, and Morgan Freeman were all wonderful in their parts and I found the use of the League of Shadows an interesting stand in for the League of Assassins (which Ra's Al Ghul founded).

I would be curious if they keep this Batman franchise going whether they bring in Ibn al Xu'ffasch in somehow.

But overall I found the movie to be fun and hope to see more. Just clean up the fight scenes.

3.5 out of 5 stars.

My best friend Gordy just joined the blogging world. It was in his AD&D game that I met Ann. So I present On The Stick!

Had a good time out at Steph's house yesterday. Cooked up some steaks on the grill, gossiped a bit, and the dogs got spoiled rotten by getting some Deviled Eggs, steak bones, and dog cookies.

You will have to do the Salon day pass and watch a commercial to read this fine review of Alan Moore's Promethea, but it is worth it. Magic comic ride

Also here at Mother Jones is an interview of Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer : A Story from Sarajevo, Notes from a Defeatist) one of Ann & I's favorite comic creators.

If you havent read Palestine or Safe Are Gorazde I highly recommend both. So does Ann for that matter, she is always asking me when Sacco's next book is coming out.

Just got email from my comics pusher telling me that he got three copies of the Angel comic from IDW and none of them was the Puppet Angel cover.

(cover to said comic)

So if anyone could help me out here I would be greatly appreciated.

Peeping Tom" Caught in Toilet Bowl

June 29, 2005 9:04 a.m. EST

Christina Ficara - All Headline News Staff Reporter

ALBANY, N.H. (AHN) - A teenage girl went to use the bathroom and found the something toilet looking back at her.

Police pulled 45-year old Gary Moody from a tank under the toilet of log cabin outhouse off the Kancamagas Highway in Albany - the tank and the man was full of human waste.

According to police, they got a call from the parents of a teenage girl who said when she went to use the facilities, she saw Moody's face staring back at her from the hole.

Moody was hosed off before police cuffed him, reporting he was treated like "hazardous material."

Police reportedly don't know how long Moody was in the tank, but because the door was locked, authorities figure he must have gone in through the toilet.

Moody is charged with criminal trespass and could face more charges. He is out on bail and due back in court next month.

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Yes, in Superman's 'Hometown,' There is a Newspaper Called the 'Planet'

Published: June 27, 2005 5:30 PM ET

METROPOLIS, Ill. In this sleepy Ohio River town that claims Superman as its favorite son, 50-year-old Jim Hambrick has landed somewhere between reality and fantasy. All things Superman rule here, from the 15-foot bronze statue of the buff comic-book hero on Superman Square to the "S"-emblazoned T-shirts that can be found just about everywhere.

Images of Superman grace the water tower and billboards, pointing the way to downtown. A phone booth in the business district is just for show — it doesn't have a phone.

In the midst of it all is Hambrick, owner of a storefront souvenir shop and Super Museum — with a sign out front that bills the one-time furniture store as "the Largest Superman Collection on the Planet."

"It's a borderline obsession for me; I had to channel it somewhere," the married father of four said, decked out in a Superman T-shirt that hardly stands out in this town he moved to 13 years ago from Hollywood.

"We all need a hero, and Superman is the grandest of them all," he said.

The 166-year-old town of 6,500 residents has no real connection to the fictional crimefighter, beyond the fact that Superman's co-creator, Jerry Siegel, happened to name his setting "Metropolis" when he first wrote the strip in the 1930s.

But it's a place that's more Mayberry than Metropolis — where few visitors can resist being photographed next to the Superman statue, their chests puffed out and hands on hips in classic Superman style.

Locals have called this Superman's official home since the early 1970s, when the Illinois Legislature declared it to be. The local newspaper was The Metropolis News until 1972, when it became The Metropolis Planet to get it more in line with the fictional Daily Planet that had Clark Kent — Superman's alter ego — and Lois Lane on the payroll.

Crime is as visible as vapor, as one might expect in the digs of a caped crimefighter, aside from those who years ago found the square's previous Superman statue so hideous they blasted it with gunshots, proving it couldn't outrun a speeding bullet.

"We're the only Metropolis in the whole United States," boasts Karla Ogle, chairwoman of the recent Superman Celebration, staged each spring for the past 27 years.

Tens of thousands of people stop in Metropolis each year, and residents expect to see that already muscular tourism trade flex even more with two new Superman-related flicks due out in 2006.

I am not the biggest Superman fan, but one of these days I want to go down there and check Metropolis out. I have heard mixed things from a couple people who have been there, but I just want to be able to say I have been to Metropolis.