Batman Beyond - Seeing Double

I never saw Batman Beyond. Some of that is because it mostly took place during The Great Pop-Cultural Blind Spot. My general lack of interest makes up the rest.

Contrary to popular belief, I'm not a Batman fanboy; I like a selection of very good Batman stories. Good Batman stories tend to be very good stories in general (Good Green Lantern stories, on the other hand, tend to induce slightly less vomiting than other GL stories.). I love the potential in seeing what happens when Batman gets too old to be Batman^[1]. His whole deal is that he is just a man and like all men must face decay and death^[2]. To paraphrase The Bible, how Bruce Wayne faces life at an old age is at least as important as how he faces death.

Progress Report: 30 DEC 13 Close of Business

Hey, so daily progress report: GO!

Progress Report: 30 DEC 13

So, I have something of a history of heaping too much onto my plate. So I was thinking about what would happen if I kept a record of all of that stuff over the course of a few days so I can see where I'm getting shit done. Not exciting, but good for a few laughs. 

Maybe.

Probably not.

Night at The Movies

So, the guys were talking a few weeks about about how physical separation keeps us from going to a movie together, then talking about it later. I think it was Derek who floated the idea that since we all have Netflix, we could just pick a movie there, watch it, then talk about it during a video/audio chat later that week.

My Sand, Steel, and Sunsets game is ending today, and we've got some downtime before Terry's Werewolf game picks back up. Next Friday or Saturday should have a good time for all of us to get together and turn something over. We've got three candidates, Troll Hunter, Gallowwalkers, and Solomon Kane. Everyone interested can rank the movies and we'll hash out a time via email.

Timewalking Archive Trap: Battle-Civ Beta: Episode #6 The Greatest of Things

As you might be aware, I've recently redownloaded Civilization 2, one of the top three most addicting games ever created (the others being Minecraft and WoW). It brought up a lot of old memories and a quick search through my downloaded Xanga blog revealed that I'd already blogged about a game of Civilization 2. So enjoy this Timewalking Archive Trap from May of 2007.

Nerding Out of The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special

As you know, I love friggin' Doctor Who.

Or maybe I don't talk about it much because I'm afraid it'll creep you out, much as it has done to my roleplaying group. Aaanyway, I do and I saw the 50th Anniversary special (plus or minus fifteen years of being off the air) and I thoroughly enjoyed it. That said, I'm a fucking insatiable nerd prick, so I've got some nitpicks the size of a fucking planet to bring up. A nit for each Doctor, actually.

It's perfectly natural, as a nerd, I have a locked (deadlocked, some might say) emotional progression in response to good things:

I first noticed this paradigm when I heard that Victoria Hand was going to be in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Surprisingly, her role was so understated, I never really around to hating her. AoS is definitely progressing in tiny, steady steps.

MASSIVE FUCKING SPOILERS BELOW:

Pyrion Flax Plays: Papers, Please

I Think This Is My Stop, Family Guy

So, Brian died on Family Guy a few weeks ago (don't worry; he's coming back). Long story short, Stewie destroys his time travel machine forever, consequently Brian goes outside and dies, and the family gets a new dog. And, guys, this is my stop.

As a comics fan, I recognize all of the beats. The elimination of a wacky, recent addition to the series (the time travel machine). The death of a major character in an attempt to engage the audience's concern for a character. The desperate introduction of a replacement character like so much New Coke. They just need an awkward crossover that bumps up ratings for a week while eternally hobbling them with canon, and my comics-ruin-everything Bingo card is complete.

Oh, wait.

Timewalking Archive Trap: Battle-Civ Beta: Episode #5, Roman Contact, Roman Civil War

As you might be aware, I've recently redownloaded Civilization 2, one of the top three most addicting games ever created (the others being Minecraft and WoW). It brought up a lot of old memories and a quick search through my downloaded Xanga blog revealed that I'd already blogged about a game of Civilization 2. So enjoy this Timewalking Archive Trap from May of 2007.

StoryCorps: Danny and Annie

Bitchin' about work

Aw man, I'm just gonna gripe about work. Maybe you want to too? Go ahead. Knock yourself out.

So, I do this gig in a post office where I just take people's boxes and get postage on them and sell stamps and shit. It should be the fucking simplest thing on Earth, but some folks are like "Here's an egg. I don't have a box and I want to send it to Germany. By ground. Don't you have Germany's zip code? I don't want to pay more than 30p."

Timewalking Archive Trap: Battle-Civ Beta: Episode #4, the Age of Colonization

As you might be aware, I've recently redownloaded Civilization 2, one of the top three most addicting games ever created (the others being Minecraft and WoW). It brought up a lot of old memories and a quick search through my downloaded Xanga blog revealed that I'd already blogged about a game of Civilization 2. So enjoy this Timewalking Archive Trap from May of 2007.

Why brain? Why?

So, I was trying to do some...stuff the other day and suddenly it popped into my head that Jon Stewart has had sex. Then my brain went off-script and imagined him, tiny, hairy, older guy that he is, kneeling on his desk and just pounding away. It was not a sexy scene.

Then, words came:

Jon Stewart: "And now to our senior vagina correspondent."

Jon Stewart's Penis (with the voice of Aasif Mandvi): "Thanks Jon. I'm here in the vagina, and I gotta say it looks awful, but it feels great! This just in; faster, Jon."

Jon Stewart: "Will do penis. Thanks for that report. My penis, everyone."

*Applause*

My brain cannot be trusted.

Orson Welles Outtakes

Updates

Don't have the next 64 Deck Bag ready. They're kind of a bear. They use tables and there's a cut and paste angle. They're kind of a whole...deal. Actually, they're why I'm probably going to be taking wordpress off of the big boy site in the near future and starting from scratch over there (wordpress blogs can't handle fucking tables?). It'll be a whole thing.

I'm trying to get through the holiday season. Trying to get into modding some Minecraft as a way to learn Java. Looking for more gainful employment. Trying to get some freelance work. Wrapping up my first FATE RPG in the next few days. (I'll probably be posting some of that here, or at least links to it.).

Kinda busy despite all of the silence that's permeated this blog lately. Sorry for the delays. If it's any help, this place may be quiet, but I still have a tumblr, a hot guys tumblr, and a talk-about-politics tumblr.

I'm also angling to get linkstorms done. I really, really like doing them and I want to do them, but sometimes I get caught in a vicious cycle of overproduction and then it seems like they're too negative. Anywhoo, I'm still workin' on it folks.