Widget is Neat

Hi there.

I found out about this Widget thing over at the Occasional Superheroine blog, and boy howdy, is it ever neat. You can have blogs listed on it on your blog, or myspace page, or facebook, or whatever, and if your favorite blog isn't listed, you can add it yourself. I've added a few of my usual haunts on the side there, so in the even that you stumble on this blog my mistake -- since no one would possibly visit it otherwise -- check out the other blogs on the left.

By the way, the episode of the Simpsons with the power plant baseball team is on right now. It's really funny.

"Will... I... be... able... to... play... softball?"

"No, by tomorrow you'll barely be able to breath."

Almost Forgot...

With the last post I've managed to update my blog more times this year than I did last year. Granted I only posted fourteen times last year, and I'm still seven posts away from besting my 2005 record, but I figured it was worth mentioning all the same.

Yay.

What's up?

Not much to say. Haven't been up to much lately. Met with my therapist on Tuesday, went by the comic shop on Wednesday, went to London on Thursday, saw the psychiatrist at my doctor's office on Friday, and got a haircut today. Not a bad week, I suppose, but I've still been feeling pretty down lately. With Kerr in BC and my friends all seemingly working 16 hours a day, I've been feeling pretty lonely lately. Hope my mood picks up with the new anti-depressants I was prescribed, but in the meantime I'm about a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10.

Kerr's birthday is this Wednesday. I got a package off to him last week and it should be there in time for the big day. He's pretty low-key about all that, but I hope he likes the stuff. Got him one of those Transformers that looks like a real car, so that's pretty cool.

I did talk to John last night and he sent me this video he made the other day. He only spent ten or fifteen minutes on it and doesn't want it getting out there, but since no one visits my blog anyway, it's okay. If you do stumble upon my blog, hope you like it.

What a Living Room!

Check this out:


I came across this, killing time on deviantart.com. Cool, huh? I'd love to have something like that in my place, if only I had the art skills, wall space, and paint supplies to do it.

Still haven't been able to sleep, so...

On one hand, I've screwed up my sleeping hours, but on the other hand I've got a nice sunrise going on outside that I would've missed if I'd been sleeping. Here's another Youtube clip I found when I checked to see what sites linked to that short film I played a dead body in (as shown in an earlier post, for you keeners out there). Turns out one of the sites doesn't link to the short, but does have a lot of bizarre religious videos to see. Here's one:

(By the way, I've got nothing against people celebrating religion, least of all through a splashy musical number, but come on. Even for a religious musical, it's pretty awful.)

Couldn't Sleep...

I couldn't sleep, so I've been looking at videos and such on youtube. Thought I'd share two of my favorite clips. One's from Flight of the Conchords, a hilarious show I adore and am thrilled is coming back for a second season, the other is one of my favorite bits from Family Guy, a show I absolutely hated but find myself enjoying more these days (even if I still find the older episodes unbearable to watch).

I'll check back later unless by some divine grace I'm actually able to fall asleep sometime soon.

Holy Christmas!

Five posts in one day, and another post the next day! It's almost like I have scores of people actually reading my blog and I have the urge to update for their benefit.

Anyway, I've updated all the entries with label tags for easy access. So if you just want to read my incoherent ramblings on TV, Vacations, Things that have screwed me over, or reasons why I think I'm going to Hell, you can, and with the click of a button. There's even a label marked "Button"!

...

I'm going to bed now. Sorry.

JLU vs. Superfriends

Here's a link to a great article online comparing Superfriends and Justice League Unlimited:

http://toddalcott.livejournal.com/65562.html

Here's an excerpt for whet your appetite:

"In Superfriends, Batman has a computer and a cave full of gadgets, Wonder Woman has a magic rope and an invisible plane, Green Lantern has a magic ring, Flash is fast, Superman has his multitudinous powers, Aquaman talks to fish. Those are all fine attributes, but they do not, in and of themselves, constitute character. If all that mattered was the number of powers, Martian Manhunter would be a more popular superhero than Superman.

"What the producers of Superfriends chose to do is give all their heroes the exact same personality, whether they are the Last Son of Krypton, the Dark Knight, the Amazon Princess or The Guy Who Talks to Fish. The heroes of Superfriends are uniformly game, brave, chipper, chatty, easily startled and, paradoxically, unflappable. No sooner do they exclaim "Great Krypton/Hera/Gotham/Neptune!" than they pull some improbable solution out of the air and calmly implement it (as Seanbaby mentions, this solution often involves "spinning around" the bad guy/explosion/missile/lava/monster/lava-monster until the spinning affects it somehow).

"This conceptual blunder, not the dumb plots or the cheap animation, is why Superfriends is so reviled. Television can soar on dumb plots and cheap animation, it cannot survive without characters. This is why episodes of Superfriends feel so shallow, repetitive and lame; there are seven main characters and they all think and act exactly the same way. Think about it: Hanna-Barbera actually gave the members of the Justice League less personality than they gave to the members of the Mystery Gang."

Honestly, I don't get why some folks are so hung up on Superfriends. It's the same thing with shows like He-Man and Ninja Turtles. I get affection for old cartoons you watched as a kid, but really, a lot of those shows are pretty bad. Not just the animation, but the writing and voice acting too. And hey, there are things I liked as a kid that I've rewatched as an adult and found nostalgic enjoyment in, but they're far from the be-all, end-all.

Wikipedia Update

So, I went back on wikipedia this afternoon to check out my status and -- surprise, surprise -- the great and powerful wikipedia screwed me over again. That wretched hag "DragonflySixtyseven" extended by ban, which, by the way, was set up for absolutely frivolous and hilarious reasons (as detailed in earlier posts below). Thankfully due to the intelligently measured actions of "Persian Poet Gal" my account was reinstated as soon as I alerted them to this curious affront.

Y'know, wikipedia kind of sucks, huh. Yeah. Little bit.

And they need to get a sense of humor and stop BLOCKING people who have the gall to laugh at a joke. "Encouraging Vandalism". Feh.

Six Years Later

I'd hoped to write something profound here and, to be honest, I'd written and re-written this post a few times before settling on this. I thought about something along the lines of how despite the events of September 11th being over-shadowed by a lot of the stuff that's happened since then, no ones forgotten or taken for granted the heroism and sacrifice of that day. It all came out sounding kind of trite and unsatisfying though.

I guess what I'm trying to say is thanks and God bless, and no one will ever forget.

I Beat the System!

".....meh, okay, so I overreacted. It's still not cool, but it's not THAT horribly uncool. Your block has been reduced to twelve hours. DS 04:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC) - DragonflySixtyseven"

Yeah! Take that wikipedia! Shows them what can happen when the little guy with a healthy sense of humor has a forum to get the word out and no one to BLOCK him. Assuming they realized they should reduce the BLOCK by reading this and not independently reaching that conclusion on their own, I suppose.

Yeah! And that goat anecdote showing up right after Jon Stewart and Jeff Garlin mentioned it? Still very funny. Yeah.

What the - - ?

I got blocked on wikipedia! Tonight on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart and guest Jeff Garlin made jokes about the his wikipedia entry, ending with Stewart making a joke about Garlin being nearly killed by mountain goats last year and how it'd end up on his wiki-entry. So I go to Garlin's page and see someone's changed it, and instead go to the discussion page and say how funny it is that it's been changed so quickly.

And then I get BLOCKED. For three days granted, but I'm BLOCKED for three days. For, apparently, encouraging vandalism. Here's the message:

"It is not awesome to vandalize Wikipedia articles just because Jon Stewart said it'd be wacky to do so. Nor is it awesome to tell people that their vandalism is awesome. You are blocked for three days. DS 03:53, 11 September 2007 (UTC) - DragonflySixtyseven"

What'd I do? Come on! Mountain goats nearly killed Jeff Garlin last year? That's very funny.

And, yes, I can still check out the wiki, and, yes, I only go there, like, twice a month or so, but come on! BLOCKED, for chrissakes!