Standing by the side of the road, and a raven leaves its perch on the power lines to overfly me.
If you are a fan of “28 Days Later” (2002), then you know that this is a setup for a BAD situation.
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My first I Ching reading. :-)
“Above, fire, below, the lake.
“The image of opposition this amid all fellowship,
“The superior retains his kind.”
Throwback Thursday: the Cover to “Marvel Comics Presents” #85, Sam Kieth, 1991
This is a truly iconic 1990’s comic cover by the inimitable Sam Kieth; the image takes me right back to when I returned to comic book fandom in the first half of the decade. Kieth passed away on March 15th.
Wish me luck!!
Today I have to go back to the same store where I keep leaving my grocery bags at the counter. (There is an alarming paucity of Little Debbie Snack Cakes in my home.)
Keep your fingers crossed that I don’t embarrass myself again. I need to walk out with ALL my bag, so that a polite young person doesn’t have to chase me.
No Neos is good Neos.
How do I make the same embarrassing mistake at the same store one week later? (You guessed it — I left one of my packages at the counter again, and the poor, beleaguered, young cashier had to run out after the confused old guy with it.)
It’s like a humiliating glitch in The Matrix.
Ever just be really disappointed by a pair of reading glasses?
#NerdWorldProblems
People say I’m paranoid.
(Those people are out to get me.)
Throwback Thursday: the debut of Frank Miller’s “The Dark Knight Returns,” 1986
That’s right — the legendary tome saw its 40th anniversary last month. (I’ve always had the habit of referring to its graphic novel format, but of course it was initially published as a four-issue limited series.)
Forty years — I can’t wrap my mind around that.
For a little perspective, imagine being a young person in 1986 and discovering The Dark Knight Returns for the first time. (I myself was introduced to it a few years down the line, but still.) Now picture an older comics fan in 1986 trying to interest you in a title that was published 40 years prior.
THAT COMIC WOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED IN 1946 — a year after the conclusion of World War II. It would have to be a title like Tintin or the Mark Trail comic strip.
Damn, we’re old.
Today’s portmanteau:
Silly + brilliant = Silliant
“I’d buy that for a dollar.”
Kudos to anyone who gets the headline’s reference to an awesome 80’s movie.
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