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6928 - Monday, Already?
Oct. 11th, 2004 07:20 am
Went to the local Winn-Dixie for the first time (I usually shop at Publix)... The prices, selection and cleanliness at Publix are much better. The Winn-Dixie is new, but is already looking like a future "broken down" store. a few months of poor care, and it'll look like an aged husk. I couldn't be bothered to pick up anything that wasn't pre-packaged as a result... I'll have to hit my green-grocer up midweek, instead.
Weather outside is getting to be ideal. Cool enough to really enjoy long walks again.
I also swung by the library, just to sniff out any new DVDs that might be worth watching... friends of the library had a cart out front full of books and other media, marked 3/$1.00. I picked up a barely opened copy of Fleischer Popeye cartoons, Superman (the un-remastered ones), and a Marlon Brando Movie: One-eyed Jacks, for the grand total of $1. Not a bad haul, at all.
One-Eyed Jacks has a pretty prophetic fat joke made by Karl Malden in a sombrero to Marlon Brando.
Bonus on the Popeye DVD is a tour of Fleischer studios in Miami. Sort of neat to see local life 50 or more years ago. Popeye cracks me up... He and Bluto are at least medium level superheroes, but all they do is selfish stuff for the most part. (Run for president, Woo Olive Oyl, Just trying to get sleep, etc, etc) It's also kind of odd that they're both smokers.. pipe and cigar.
Sometimes I picture myself as the eye of the storm. I'm mostly a passive person, taking the path of least resistance to my goals. I can see disaster out on the fringes of my life, but things are generally calm where I tread. Brother is a different story... he's fortunate, but is constantly in the midst of trouble, not just near it. Additionally, I also like to walk along the beach.
Monday Meeting. I have to somehow convince the big kahuna that mass e-mail marketing (SPAM) is *not* the way for us to look to raise awareness and open pocketbooks. The only people that make any money from the spam industry are folks that sell spam lists to people, and people who sell the "service" of pumping the bilge that is spam out to the poor public. I fear we will see no return on our investment of a list purchase, and worse, that our good name will be tossed in the dumper. I've tried explaining it in the past, but marketers seem to have more sway than my explaining how spam works in the real world. All I can do is stress my point again, and ask people what *they* do when they see a strange email in the box.... *delete*. Maybe explaining that they'll be blocked by the bigger orgs will do the trick.
More info on that A&E Trolly that I rode last weekend.
Dad's Home - This makes me smile. Super Powers, Insanity, and a smiling man rocking out.
( Reefer man lyrics )
They made a Hercules and Xena cartoon? Wacky. They even got the primary players as voices. I'd never heard of it until yesterday afternoon.
Free Halloween Clip art (it's where I got Mr. Skelly)
Hmm... I'm sort of glad that Viva Broward doesn't translate to Oktoberfest. Heil Broward! has some scary connotations.
Doom3tm (I wasn't sure if you could nest superscript) is really nifty... It's a shame that it's too scary for most of my friends to get into. Sammy, Whims, Danny all are a bit too squeamish to gun down zombies and demons on an alien planet. I think that GP, Katt, and Hala would all do fine with it.
'New' giant ape found in DR Congo ( Read more... )
Dance of the Hawkmen from "Superman - The Underground World"What Hawkmen were doing living underground, rather than out in the open is left as a cartoon mystery. Three Frames cut and resized. the actual dance is rather smooth and ornate.
Superman defeated them by throwing a bomb at the birdmen as they pursued, sealing them underground forever. I thought he only did that sort of thing to people who found out his secret identity? As for the story, Perry White thought it too incredible, so he burned it. Um. Superman lives in your town, and flying bird guys is too crazy to print? C'mon, Perry! Superman is a destroyer of an entire species of evil bird-men! The public has a right to know! Reanimated giant mummy-guardians (of King *Tush*! heh heh.), dope rings and mad scientists with magnetic telescopes, drawing down stray comets.. but no. Hawk guys are toooooo unbelievable.
These films were made when all men wore hats.
Except Perry White and Superman. No Super-hat for the Man of Steel, or his favorite crony in genocide.
Why else would Perry get to go hatless? I can see where Supes would be a special case, being an alien and all. He'd no more need a hat than an iguana or a house cat. Besides, Superman has a cape. Capes really only go with a few types of headgear. Top Hat, traveling cap, wizard's hat or Hooded cowl. (A fedora, bowler or pith helmet would never do.)
I've also learned that the metropolis police are more than happy to use sandbagged bunkers, spotlights, dough boy soldiers with bayonets, and tripod-mounted heavy machine gun nests to fight bank robbers.
Heck, no way even John Dillinger is going to mess with that town.
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