It came to this...

A series of bad weeks and a few really bad days have really brought my mood down. I wasn't able to do much this weekend besides sleeping, lying in bed, and doing a whole restore of my computer's hard drive. At least it's running better, and I'm holding off on putting all of my files back on the hard drive in anticipation of borrowing a copy of the updated Windows from a buddy that will, presumably, wipe the hard drive clean in the process. I'm hoping that things pick up in the next few days, but the way things have been going, I'm expecting more of the same. Still hoping to get some stuff done in the meantime, but I'm probably not going to be that productive all things considered.

Sorry I haven't got much to say or anything interesting to link to, but that's the way it's been going.

A Couple of Interesting Things...

Not much to say, unfortunately. I wasn't sleeping well for a while there, but I've been getting better hours lately and have had more energy as a result. It was rough the first night though -- I guess my body had adjusted to getting five hours sleep a night (which was what was screwing me up) so after hour five of my getting-back-to-normal night I was waking up hourly and trying to fall back asleep. After keeping better hours for a few days I got hit really hard by my allergies and lost a day because I could barely think, much less breathe. Things are better now though, and I'm hoping to get things back on track.

That's the extent of my life since the last post, give or take the odd dinner out with the guys or whatever. Thankfully I've come across a few things that I thought'd be worth passing along, so here we go.

Entertainment Weekly's New Movie Classics

A look back at the new classics, films from the last 25 years worthy of the title. A few of my favorites including The Naked Gun, Back to the Future, and There's Something About Mary made the list, so I'm happy.

Japanese Invent Car That Runs on Water

Not exactly as pictured, but it was hard to find a good descriptive image and, really, who wouldn't want to drive a car that could ride on water? Anyway, it'll probably be a long time before the cars mentioned the article are sold in North America, but you'd think people would want them as soon as they could get them.

Read Deepak Chopra's Beyond #1

Haven't read it myself, but my brother's really into Chopra, and a free comic is a free comic.

That's all I can think of for now. Have a good day.

File This Under "Who Didn't See That One Coming"

After months of hearing that Final Crisis artist JG Jones was seemingly behind schedule, it's revealed that Carlos Pacheco will be joining him on the series from issue 4 on. Not that it's a bad thing since I like both artists equally -- and Pacheco drew the issue of Justice League of America that led into the series -- but didn't Jones start work on the series sometime last year? Not that I'm suggesting they delay each issue by months à la Marvel's Civil War so he can catch up and handle each issue himself, but considering how predictably inevitable this outcome was they should have planned for this outcome from the get-go.

Declarative Jack Sez...

This entirely obvious statement is courtesy of Futureshop.com, your ineffective and difficult to navigate home for electronics. Still, all things considered, it's worlds better than actually going to Future Shop, where you're forced to navigate poorly laid out aisles to try to find items mistakingly listed as being in stock in the store database until you actually find an employee who's too busy chatting with friends to actually be in their department to tell you that they don't have what you're looking for before condescendingly brushing you off.

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I really hate Future Shop.

Following up...

Following up on the last post, the Kids in the Hall show was great fun. Sure they were a little older and chubbier than they were back in the heyday of their show, but they were great as ever. Kevin MacDonald's voice was a little coarse -- apparently he had a cold -- and one of the running jokes of the night was how rough his voice was. There was one or two sketches from the show, but the rest was new material.


There was a great sketch with Dave Foley and MacDonald, where Foley played a guy who only ordered one beer at a last-call and was berated by his buddy for not ordering more. Foley explained he didn't need to order more than one because he had a time machine, upon which MacDonald berated him further for having a time machine and using it to get drunk instead of going back in time and killing Hitler or something. So Foley goes back in time and orders two beers at last-call. After a call-back at the end of another sketch, a third sketch had the character going back in time to kill Hitler when he was an art student, but the good-natured Hitler offered him a German beer, which the guy reluctantly accepted instead of killing Hitler. I didn't do the sketch justice, but rest assured it was great -- definitely the sort of thing you'd see on the show.

On Tuesday I saw Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Wasn't a great movie necessarily, but Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford made it work when lesser hands wouldn't. And even if it wasn't the best movie I'll probably see this summer, it was worth seeing on the big-screen and I'd recommend it for that reason.

Not much else to say really. I finally put a DVD-TV stand unit together that I'd been planning for a while. For someone with zero carpentry skills, it turned out half-decent -- I had to build it from scratch since I couldn't find a unit to fit the spot I wanted to put it in, much less a decent unit for less than a hundred and fifty dollars.

Nana's settled into her room at the nursing home. She seems to like it, even if she thinks she's still in the hospital and will be coming back home at some point. My cousin, Aubrey, almost spilled the beans when he mentioned that we'd loaded her bed-frame into the truck he rented to move her stuff around, but we didn't dwell on it and moved past it.

Finally, here's a plug for Tangent: Superman's Reign from DC Comics. It's a nicely done, self-contained 12 issue series with nice writing and great Jamal Igle artwork. I'm really enjoying the interplay between Green Lantern and the Flash in the series and wish there was more being done with the characters as a pair elsewhere. It's an easy series to overlook since it's in his own little spot and not really connected to other titles, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit and recommend it.

Hi there.

Not much to say today. I'm going to see the Kids in the Hall perform in Toronto tonight and I'm pretty excited about that. Kids in the Hall is probably the funniest Canadian TV show of all time, and it's really nice being able to see them live (on top of which it's the last date in their current tour, which is pretty nice too).

The last issue of Justice League Unlimited came out yesterday. It was a pretty good issue, but it's still a kick in the head that the series is over. Apparently it has a lot to do with changes in DC Comic's publishing plan for it's Johnny DC line -- less emphasis on titles based on animated series (JLU, Teen Titans Go!, Legion of Superheroes, The Batman), more on original titles (Tiny Titans, Superfriends, Shazam). It's still a shame though since JLU wasn't a bad title and hit a nice medium between the mainline Justice League of America book and the more kid-friendly Superfriends, something kids and adults can both enjoy.


Finally, I found this neat blog rating system thing. Apparently I'm G-rated, which I guess is good (?).

More later, I suppose.