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| 2008-07-17 03:03 |
| Fic: Recruitment (PG13, DCU/Other) |
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Title: Recruitment
Rating: PG13
Fandom: DCU/Other
Author Notes: Written for ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) penknife's TV Tropes Challenge. The trope is the Lost World. Feels more like a prologue than a finished fic; sorry about that, the muses were cryptic on this one.
( The first step was getting into orbit. That was easy. The second step would be the difficult one. )
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| 2008-07-10 23:23 |
| Quick comics rec |
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It doesn't happen often, but the latest Action Comics has a couple of awesome pages -or rather, a very awesome couple of panels- right there at the end, after all the reminiscing about Krypton and Smallville.
It has ( ...spoilers. ) That's style.
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| 2008-07-07 14:54 |
| Truth for the ages |
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I have to agree with the last couple of issues of Dinosaur Comics.
Life is too friggin' fragile! And when I say "life", I mean life in general, but really, I mean my life in particular.
What's up with that?
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| 2008-07-04 20:14 |
| (Short) Reactions to SGA 5x01 |
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I know it's been out for a while, I've been sort of busy with other fandoms and whatnot.
( Spoilers, of course, and a casting one for the season )
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| 2008-07-04 15:54 |
| Things I've recently learned |
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* I want to play this game, very much.
* The amount of time you can spend going through old ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) scans_daily posts is effectively unbounded. This poses a problem.
* QOTD, from Brad DeLong:
In the spring of 1994, I wiped the game Civilization off my office computer. I wiped it off my home PC. I wiped it off my laptop. I threw away the original disks on which it had come. It was clear to me that I had a choice: I could either have Civilization on my computers, or I could be a deputy assistant secretary of the US Treasury. I could not do both.
I can relate. * Kung Fu Panda was formulaic, but funny. * I don't mind Jack Black that much as a voice actor. (And I think he rocked in King Kong). * There should be Tai Lung fic. Poor guy. ( Spoilers for the latest Batman issue )
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| 2008-07-01 22:10 |
| Yet more The Middleman |
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Just watched the third episode, and The Middleman is definitely my new candy show. You know, it's not deep -you can generally see plot events coming from a mile away- but it's done with gusto. It's fun, over-the-top, absolutely ridiculous and completely self-aware. Kind of like the Scrubs of the fight against paranormal menaces.
A brief aside: is anybody reading A Red Mass For Mars? I like it very much; the first issue alone was enough to give it an epic, sci-fish scope that's very interesting. I gather it's from the same creator of Pax Romana, another book I like/ed (but with a very slow publishing schedule).
Speaking of which, does anybody know if we are going to get Planetary #27 this year? I think it has been on Cassidy's hands for a few months now, and I'm getting itchy. I strongly suspect #27 is going to be far better than #26 (which was a bit of a letdown IMHO), even if we can already guess at least part of what Snow is going to do.
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| 2008-06-28 20:53 |
| On the other hand... |
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The Middleman is Torchwood. Only, you know, funny and competent, and with comic books references FTW.
I'm easy to please, I confess.
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| 2008-06-28 19:55 |
| Batman: Gotham Knight |
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It was so-so. Very Animatrix (something that isn't necessarily a bad thing). It has its moments of coolness and its moments of "hmm, no, that's not how it works", but it wasn't bad overall.
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| 2008-06-21 17:26 |
| Comics and work. |
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I just sent an email to my sort-of-boss telling him, basically, "stop motivating me to work, I'm fucking busy working here." Methinks we have a communication problem going on. I gripe about stupid stuff geting on my way, and try to shoot down bad ideas. He reads this as undercommitment to deliver, and lectures me. I usually let him, because he means well and I can always do better. But his last email was almost a verbatim copy of list last pep-up talk, and was cc'd to everybody else in the organization, and I sort of snapped. Not too much, I hope.
We'll see.
ETA: Sort-of-boss just called me to say that the mail wasn't critical, and that he hadn't meant to send cc'd to everybody. So we are cool. Good.
( Spoilery bits and pieces from a few of last week's comics )
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| 2008-06-16 23:43 |
| Blah |
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Didn't travel to see my folks, due to a transportation strike. Next weekend, with any luck.
Things I did do:
* Finished reading "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". I found it quite good.
* Learned to do some cross stitching. No reason why.
* Watched "Aniceto", a really boring Argentine movie about an asshole and his cock (as in, male chicken). It involves for some reason a lot of dancing.
* Read some Lovecraft. I love Lovecraft; it calls to all my not *quite* rationalistic bits.
So, not a total washout of a weekend, even if I didn't do anything work-related.
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| 2008-06-13 16:57 |
| Somehow, blogging feels appropriate right now |
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I feel I should be terrified, instead of merely curious. Detached. Wondering about their biochemistry. At one level I "understand" it (they are zombies), at another level... it's a mistery.
A mistery that's literally trying to eat my brain, but still. I'm sort of glad I've lived to see this.
Or maybe I'm really scared, and this is the way I cope with that. It wouldn't be the first time.
I just hope it's a local event. I hope nobody I love gets hurt. I hope you are okay.
I wonder if I can convince a doctor to run some tests on one of them.
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| 2008-06-02 19:41 |
| Random things I liked from last week's comics |
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Posting this because my last posts were AGHHH NO JUST NO re: comics, and there must be some squee.
( Cut for inaneness and spoilers )
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| 2008-05-21 22:14 |
| Saw the Robin scans, just like everybody. |
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That was nice; better than expected, certainly.
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(For darkdanc3r, although I fear it doesn't make much sense)
"I need your help," they both said at the same time, when there was finally room for talk.
"Ok, we'll do this in order" said the version from the future. "But we should probably get dressed first."
.finis.
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| 2008-05-16 10:49 |
| Saw "Speed Racer" last night |
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It was silly, of course, but that was par for the course. I love hyperrealistic (in the sense of "souped-up reality", not "realism")/hyperskill movies; that's actually how Jedi would drive *g*. The ending of the last race reminded me of the last hack scene in Neuromancer. Being a butterfly neurotic generalist, it'll be very hard for me to ever achieve that level of oneness-with-the-thing; still, it's something devoutly to be wished for.
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