Greetings Earthlings!

It was 12 years ago today that Ann & I were on our way to Wisconsin to Ann's hometown of Stevens Point (home of Point Beer) to get married. It was a whacky week of In Laws and drinking too much the night before the rehearsal dinner. Ann's midnight phone call the night before the wedding asking if we had to get married and just couldnt live together for the rest of our lives.

As to the ceremony itself I really dont remember much. The last thing I really remember of it is Ann walking into the church. After that I remember kneel, stand, kneel, stand of what is a full Mass Catholic Wedding.

Watching the wedding video is interesting because its like watching something that happened to someone else. I will comment on how large my eyes got when I first saw Ann walk in. My best man Mike thought I was going to bolt for the door for a second.

I can honestly say Ann is the best thing that ever happened to me. I make a LOT of jokes about being married, but I would be lost without her. The vows say "for better or for worse" and there has been a lot of both, but with Ann the worse dosent seem that bad.

I love you, kiddo.

EDIT: BTW to avoid confusion our anniversary is Sunday.

To the tune of Those Were the Days from All In the Family

Ahem.....

The Keep on the Borderland
The Hidden Shrine of Tamoachan
Everyone had a Magic Wand
Those were the days

No-one had the stats to play a paladin
Orcs were orcs and you slaughtered them
Mister we could use a man
like Gary Gygax again

The DM always ruled your fate
Torchbearers always beared your weight
Always hated stepping on those d8s
Those were the days


Exit stage left......

From prodigal

( Which Bat Character Am I? )

IDW is quickly becoming my favorite publisher......

From Newsarama.com

" IDW TO PUBLISH THE MAZE AGENCY COLLECTION

by Benjamin Ong Pang Kean

According to an article on ToonZone.net, IDW Publishing will be collecting Mike W. Barr’s romantic whodunit detective comic book series, The Maze Agency, in a 156-page trade paperback in November. The TPB will retail for $24.99 and will contain the first five issues of the original series written by Barr with art by Adam Hughes and Rick Magyar, including the #0 ashcan and all the covers.

The Eisner-and Harvey-nominated The Maze Agency was originally published by Comico (and then Innovation and later moved back to Comico) in 1988 through 1991. It was last published in a three-issue limited series by Caliber Comics between 1997 and 1998.

[Note: Other titles previously published by Comico such as Matt Grendel’s Grendel and Mage have now found their respective homes with Dark Horse and Image Comics and Bill Willingham had sold off all his rights to his creation, Elementals.]

The Maze Agency tells the adventures of a romantically involved pair of private investigators: Jennifer Mays is a female private detective who runs the Maze Agency private detective firm in the city of New York and Gabriel Webb is a true crime writer and paramour of the lovely Ms. Mays.

Mike W. Barr is best known as the writer and creator of many well-known comic book series such as Camelot 3000, Batman and the Outsiders, The Outsiders and Mantra. He has written several Batman stories, most notably Batman: Son of the Demon, Batman: Reign of Terror and Batman: Year Two. While Barr’s writing in the series was top notch, also of note is the artwork by a young Adam Hughes before he became “the” Adam Hughes.

IDW has previously announced the reprints of John Ostrander and Timothy Truman’s GrimJack, Mike Grell’s Jon Sable and Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel’s Mars as well as new mini-series/projects based on comics characters originally published by First Comics and also Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan’s Heartbreakers Meet Boilerplate."

This is great stuff. This book told great little Whodunnits. There was even a crossover with Ellery Queen in issue #9. If IDW collects all the issues I will be very happy. Rather have TPB of them then lugging them around in comic long boxes.

Now if I could get DC to do TPBs of John Ostrander's Suicide Squad stuff I would completely geek out.

Last night Ann & I took our pal Lisa to see Mr & Mrs Smith for her birthday (she is celebrating the 14th anniversary of her 29th birthday).

The movie rocked. It was like watching a 1950's screwball comedy with guns and sex. One nice easter egg moment was when Brad Pitt's character is talking to someone towards the end of the movie who is wearing a much faded Fight Club t-shirt.

( Picture of Brad Pitt for Ann )

*RANT ALERT*
Ok why the hell cant people actually refrain from talking during the movie? Or better yet keep their children quiet? Last nights movie enjoyment was lessened by both of those things. There was a teenage couple sitting next to my wife that were talking like they were watching a DVD at home not in a theater. Then there was the kid you could hear talking over the movie sitting about 8 rows away. "Daddy Daddy whats that?"

What got me is how the teenagers acted like we were doing something wrong by asking them to be quiet.

I just wish that people still had some common courtesy these days. In public it is amazing how little people take into consideration other people.

*RANT OFF*

On the plus side though we got three free passes via bitching at the manager about what happened. Guess I get to see Batman Begins now.

Interesting exchange today between Terry Moran and Scott McClellan. From Editor and Publisher.

( Insurgency in last throes? )

More cuteness......Ann immediately wanted to know if she was available for adoption.

( Cuter than the law allows! )

This blog entry It all began when I lost Oscar, My black lab...my baby:( will do you a world of good if you like cute dog and cat pictures. I think they are giving Jibber & Jabber who are staying with rdansky till they find homes.

It finally cooled down enough to turn of the A/C and sleep with the windows open. YAY!