You know...

...I was just thinking about the Tangent: Superman's Reign comic book (issue 6 on sale now), and I'd probably buy a "Brave and the Bold" style title by Dan Jurgens and Jamal Igle. Don't know if Igle's going to stick with the title once his run on Supergirl starts up or if they've ever worked together before this title, but they're really gelling as a team and I'm really enjoying their takes on Green Lantern and the Flash (John Stewart and Wally West, specifically).

...I tried watching "Gossip Girl" Monday night, but couldn't make it more than ten minutes into the episode. Not that it seemed to be a bad show or anything, and not to say I don't enjoy the prime time teen soap (I watched a lot of the first season of "The O.C."), but I really couldn't get past the fact that the teenagers on the show looked older than I am. Is it really too hard to find actors to play teens that actually look like teens or are *gasp* teenagers themselves?

...Salt and vinegar Pringles aren't that great, especially after having the salt and vinegar Lay's Stax chips. Those are pretty good. The Pringles... not so much.

...The Daily Show and the Colbert Report are in reruns at the moment, which is a kick in the head, but on the bright side they seem to have picked up on this so there's fewer reruns these days than in years past. I'd still prefer they not just rerun the prior weeks episodes during a repeat week though. But I still watch it all the same, so who am I to complain?

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.