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[scarfman]

On the right foot qtrhorserider's study buddy/neighbor's five-year-old had her birthday party yesterday. She likes to draw so I got her a pad of Strathmore sketch paper and told her it's What Artists Use.

No business like it The Central High School Retro Road Show went off last night. Boy Meets Girl went off perfectly even though we'd never run lines twice running without one of us bobbling something. None of the other performers besides Pegi were people from my class or who I knew, but a few people who had been at Central while I was came up to me after the show to say hi. We would have liked to go to the dessert in the courtyard afterwards but I wasn't feeling well.

Chicken cow run? I've got a lesser case of the upper and lower runs I had two weekends ago. I think it's stress; it seems to happen on busy Saturdays (two weekends ago we were commuting fifty miles every day to the horse expo where qtrhorserider's boss was an exhibitor). qtrhorserider thinks it's the meat supply at the burger chains I only hit on the weekends, the way I have allergic reactions to Pepsi products but no other soda pops. Probably it's some combination of both. Today we're vegging in front of Animal Planet. Did Jeff Corwin just say those snakes are full of "pith and vinegar"? Switching to Boadicea on History Channel.

Where, oh where are you tonight? Buck Owens is dead. Time to get out your dinosaur victrola.

Desired obsolescence The other day I dropped in on a comics shop for the first time in maybe years. I picked up the JLA: Rock of Ages graphic novel which collects the issues I was in the middle of the last time finances required I stop reading JLA monthly. I recently read somewhere a comment that Grant Morrison is an epitome of the modern comics writer who's into the adult, dark side of the classic heroes but when his JLA is all of his I've read I don't see it. I also picked up Infinite Crisis #5 (of 7) to see what's the latest going on. In this installment Lois Lane-2 dies (I'm not quite sure why, perhaps because I missed four issues), and Superman-1 and Superman-2 finally meet. Superman-1 still doesn't remember the multiverse but Superman-2 blames Superman-1 for Lois-2's death, and the loss of "perfect" Earth-2. Superman-1 says, "If you're from this Earth it can't be perfect. Because a perfect Earth doesn't need a Superman." I hadn't heard of this Geoff Johns before but he sure can write Superman.

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[(Anonymous)]

You ought to read Say You Want a Revolution, the first volume of Morrison's The Invisibles, just to compare and contrast with his JLA work.

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