Serious Frivolity-laden Thoughts.
The work email goes around with the subject “Frank on the Prowl?” followed by the brilliant XKCD comic attached:
(via XKCD. Please visit them.)
Thankfully I have no shame…about putting jokes before (during and after) sex. Hi-oh!
(should have posted yesterday, but I was having trouble linking).
Here then are a few more blogs that I’ve been reading and wanted to share a bit about.
Fanfrickingtastic: FFT and I had our blogs linked to on the same day by DCBlogs. Of the seven or so listed in that post this one found its way into my GReader. For those of you who don’t know anything about me I am not one to put up with a lot of “Girly, gossipy, dating/relationship oh I wish I was Carrie Bradshaw” crap. (And I’ve been known to make plenty of SJP jokes in my day). Thus it may surprise you that FFT falls close to this line, but not quite. I like it for three distinct reasons. First there isn’t a lot of crying or lamenting about stuff. Second, It’s actually really funny and well written. Today’s Yesterday’s “Commitment-Phobe’s Guide to ‘I Love You‘” is priceless.
The fangs and snarkiness have come down a bit since she got a…guy (I hesitate to say bf because apparently that’s a loaded word around these parts) but gems like this can still be found now and then. I encourage readership.
Oh and the third reason? A very active comments section-maybe if I wrote about some of my dating life/views on relationships people would be more chatty here at TSL….or maybe no woman would ever talk to me again, ever.
Grace Undressed: Is one of the best written blogs period. Current Waitress/Recent Ex-Stripper “Grace” eloquently puts the world of taking your clothes off and fantasy into my RSS feed every now and then. Her writing style somehow manages to invoke a sense of deep self reflection and exploration all while maintaining a very straightforward “this is what it’s like, and kinda F’ you” tone. This may, in fact, be because she is prone to deep self reflection and has such a straightforward attitude. It may not be. One of the great revelations of her blog is a discussion of not just the fact that “it’s all fantasy” but just what fantasy is. Her guide to how to approach a strip club for the first time found in the Q & A here sort of reflects the reality of her blog-if you’re enjoying yourself, great. If not-peace out. Fantasy, like her blog (maybe?) is to be enjoyed for what it is-else, move on.
Metric Reflection: The very handsome and always timely with the rent author of this blog isn’t just my roommate; he’s one of the most knowledgeable people about new and independent music on the planet. Not a “this is the latest and greatest in music” type of review site, MR reflects on something going on (be it thunderstorms or lazy summer days) and puts it to music-be it new, or great music you didn’t know or forgot about. Often linking to (legal) free songs, MR is actually a great resource If you’re into new and/or different music (Stu, Lizzie-I’m looking at you now).
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog: If the title itself didn’t give it away, it’s a Comic book Blog. If the title also didn’t give it away, it’s a funny as hell great Comic Book Blog. With titles like “Dr. McNinja v.2 is Seriously The Most Awesome Thing I Have Ever Read“, deconstructions of hokey comics from the 60’s like “Spidey Super-Stories” and some actual reviews of what Chris is reading highlight some of the best and (worst-but still best) things about comics that there are.
First off, some TSL notes. This is the 200th post of the year, which means I’m on pace for just under 400 for the year. Since I only posted 217 over the previously 16 months, I think my resolution to “blog more” has been more than covered.
Secondly I’m watching “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” right now, which may in fact be my new favorite Western of all time.
Now to the post.
I was happy to see that on Itunes they’ve added a bunch of DC Comics cartoons including the Batman Animated Series (Emmy Award Winning), SuperFriends, The Superman Animated Series, Aquaman (There was an Aquaman series?) and both the original Superman cartoon AND The Adventures of Superman Serial with George Reeves-one of the best shows ever. The Batman series is the darker one we all remember from about 10-15 years ago that was totally breathtaking and I expect I’ll be buying a few episodes, and I might just buy all the AoS episodes. Dad and I used to watch those as a kid-they were(are) brilliant.
Also, just on a Sci-Fi Note, apparently they have the Star Trek Original series Season 1 too. That’s Captain Kirk, if you were wondering.
And now, to round out the Itunes commercial, they also have what is called the LOST BOOK CLUB where Damon and Carlton (executive producers) have selected a bunch of audiobooks that are featured or have some other relationship to the show LOST. It’s nice because there must be hundreds of books directly and indirectly related to the show, and to have a bunch of them available all in the same place is a great boon to LOST fans. They’ve even gotten them broken down by “spoken in dialogue” and “Seen in the background.” Apparently the WAPO also has a LOST book club of sorts. I’ll be trying to keep an eye out for what goes on there as well.
These are my eyes right now. My left eye (Right in this picture) is dilated to roughly the size of a bowling ball. My right eye (left in this picture) is now a pinhole to compensate. Click for larger. This is because I went to the eye doctor today for an issue with my left eye. I’m fine (or probably will be), so no worries there-but I thought it was so neat how this all works. Right now, if I just look through my left eye not only does everything look light up and bright (because more light is getting in) but it also looks small and extra far away. And blurry. I can’t read for shit right now, nor should I be I suppose. I do, however, think the freaky eye thing looks pretty cool in a scary sci-fi kind of way.
These are the dorky sunglasses they give you if you don’t have a pair of your own. The sun, of course, would render my newly opened cyber-eye completely useless because the light input would be far more than my newly hyper-brain-processor can handle. As you can see, they don’t have the dorky cardboard flaps to for the ears per usual, but they are curled-so they just cling to your face. I can’t tell if they look extra futuristic cool-or completely dip-shit dopey. I suppose you can voice your opinion in the comments, although I don’t know if I want to see the results of that dialogue.
Anyway-just thought it might be interesting for…someone…somewhere.
That’s about the size of it. Yesterday’s 12 inning heroics by Ronnie Belliard were exciting to watch (2 outs, man on, down by one with two strikes and a questionable ball called seconds before-only to hit the game winning home run)-perhaps especially so because they sent the Balti-morons (and believe me-that they are) back up north where they belong….
On the other hand, at 33-50 they are on pace to lose just under100 games at this point. I think they’ll pull it together a bit towards the end of the year, especially if they get healthy, but mostly because you have to be a special kind of bad team to lose 100 games these days-not just plain old regular awful like they are.
It’s become the Nationals theme song: Spend money on guys who could go either way with regards to helping the team who then either get hurt or don’t pan out (In years past it’s been Guzman, Patterson. This year it’s Estrada, Lo Duca, Young, Willy Mo Pena). The second verse is that anyone contributing gets hurt. (This and all years its been Nick Johnson, now with a helping of Ryan Zimmerman among others as well). Then, lastly they win a few more games than they should towards the end of the year-just enough to make you feel like something could happen next year.
I guess they are a Washington Sports team-because that ”Spend, Disappoint, Hurt, Surprise, Next Year” routine sounds a lot like the Wizards and Redskins too (with the caveat that the Redskins spend a lot more than the Nats do any day). That might also be what the Caps do, but I don’t pay enough attention to make a call on that.
Nationals Park then is going to be, for the foreseeable future, a great bar where they happen to play baseball in the background. A place to hang out, socialize, do business deals and otherwise be seen. It’s not going to be a ballpark until they get a ball club-and that ain’t this year or next Jack.
Kinda took yesterday off-mental health day an all of that. Just sat around didn’t do much other than nothing. Here are some of the thigns I was keeping myself busy with instead of blogging (which may later lead to a real blog post, and not this filler crap you have on your screen right now):
Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate X-men and the last trade of Y: The Last Man.
Ron Paul speaks about Iran and Energy
Wizard World Chicago Updates
A very shitty book so far (and it seems to get worse with every page) called “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.”
A very fun game called “Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventure.” (And a little Mario Kart Wii)
The first episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica which I’ve decided is my rent over the summer show.
and my pool.
Today is baseball for most of the day…Perhaps I’ll write a post about the Nationals. It may be just two words though (They Stink). We’ll see.
