8179 - blah blah, yakkity-schmakkity.

[scottobear]

http://veganlunchbox.blogspot.com/ - via the weezle! yummy vegan foodies - they put me onto vegan marshmallow fluff! Fluffernutters are a reality once more!

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Hey, I got The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe as part of my prezzie from sedef and oneeyed. (the original 15-issue series bound in one "phone book"; this was the original OHOTMU. Issues 13 and 14 were the 'Book of the Dead and Disabled',featuring characters and groups who were, at the time, believed dead or inactive, and issue 15 was the 'Book of Weapons,Hardware, and Paraphernalia', featuring technical drawings of Iron Man's armor,Spider-Man's web-shooters and other notable characters' equipment. The back of each issue in the series features a brief Appendix, giving one-line listings for minor and inactive characters.

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Are there any classic, purely USA horrors? Vampires, Werewolves, Witches, Giant Monsters, berserk Animals, Frankenstein, Ghosts... all so classic as to be pre-union.

Maybe it's because the USA is such a young country. Slasher/Psycho predator Films are pretty American, but even Fritz Lang had M, but that's a lot different than "Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Mad Scientists? Stevenson was Scottish and lived in Samoa, I think. I guess 1950's style Alien Invasion? Sort of HG Wells... who was from the UK.

Zombies are pretty American, even if we've had walking dead stories more than 200 years ago.

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Florida ren-fest started yesterday... one of the premiums I got for donating blood at FBC was free passes. (along with $15 for Darden restauants - My odds are best for olive garden.) First time donating at Boca rather than Lauderdale was no different an experience, but they have a lot more fun donation loot.

I wonder if Sammy ever got the manatee shirt I sent?

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Did a little doodling followed by coloring with crayons this morning. I think that the smell of the crayons was almost more incentive to color than the drawings themselves. Nothing in particular, mostly flow of wrist doodles.

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Anémic Cinéma - Marcel Duchamp’s visual Dada experiment from 1926.

Nosferatu - The original 1922 version of “Nosferatu - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens”, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. - via wurzeltod

Fashion Freak - Who’d say no to car-washing zombie chicks? (via Bibi)

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Getting cold in Florida (for Florida, anyhow) cooling to the upper 50s, low 60s today, and dropping into possibly freezing temps tonight from 32-39?

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snagged from christin - Alignment quiz

I got:

Based on your answers to the quiz, your character’s most likely alignment is Neutral Good.

Neutral Good

A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. The common phrase for neutral good is "true good." Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias toward or against order.

--excerpted from the Player’s Handbook, Chapter 6

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Went on walkabout for a bit yesterday afternoon, but before I hoofed it, Mom and Wilt came by to drop off some goodies that they were getting rid of... some nifty hand-painted wine glasses and a veggie steamer / pasta pot. I don't drink... wine.

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I've been wearing a lot of colored, but plain t-shirts lately. Before this year, I think that all of my t-shirts (except undershirts) had some kind of picture, logo or saying on it... I rather like having some non-descript clothes. More colors than usual, too, not just sweatshirt gray / black / olive drab. Current mix is forest green, navy blue, light blue, maroon, dark rust, and a (perhaps ill-advised) "happy face" canary yellow.

There was a time years ago when 95% of what I wore outside of work were goofy T-shirts. Favorites were the good ol' comic book ones -- Spidey Duking it out with the Green Goblin (actually, I think I got that one as a birthday present from GP and Kat in the early 90s), Nick Fury, Flaming Carrot, Silver Surfer, A few different Matt Wagner Mage shirts, a Doctor Blasphemy, and a Reid Fleming, world's toughest milkman ensemble. Others were a Miskatonic University Alumnus and plain logo, and weirdly (because I didn't much dig the movie) a "Dick Tracy" opening night ticket shirt.

Hm, This Journal entry is a nice combination of boring and dorky, Scotto! Proof positive that I write primarily for myself, because precious few others could possibly care about my t-shirt preferences. Heck, even I might not care a year from now, but for now, I like having comfy clothes that fit, and don't promote anything at all.

If I'm going to be dorky, I may as well put a random picture of a monkey up -



Cowboy Gorilla! Yee-Haw! Speaking of not drinking wine, I think he was a vampire briefly. Vampire Cowboy Gorilla. Yup. He also fought Yarn Man a lot. also, a Badge pinned directly on his pecs seems a bit rough. Ii admire his ability to shoot and whip at the same time, though.

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I've got to call Val up and wish her a happy happy - I think she's 48 today. I owe her and Bobby a hello, even without a b'day involved.

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1 year ago - stretchy dream, journalist fired, cosmic muffin, star wars meme, C&H cartoon fave, baby tosser, don simpson's journal (since deleted?)

2 years ago -goodies from mimi, time out and about, comment time limit, kill the ducky

3 years ago - vallies, stinky outdoors, Drama deck poll

4 years ago - popular colors, nice walkies, cooked palm, missing ornj, Aunt Val's B'day, blessing reminder, I'm put off by nin (child abuse)

5 years ago - vagg, Aesop, Happy, Sleepy, good people in my life

Comments

Wine Glasses

[ameliarose.livejournal.com]

I don't drink wine either, so when wine is served at my house for dinner or whatnot, I have an alternative of iced tea for the wine glasses. The table still looks nice and I think it is a nice touch for non drinkers.

Re: Wine Glasses

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Sharp idea! Thanks!

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

NEVER boring. I can't remember who originally posted that blog link, but I love it! That little Shmoo is one lucky boy. Our coast is cooling right down as well!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

That little shmoo is gettign some tasty treats!

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

I'm really fascinated by the vegan thing...learning alot. In some cases TOO much about why people choose veganism. I think I try to ignore alot about how my food becomes food.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

it is rough... I tried going vegan for a while, but it was too difficult for my personality.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

Why for your personality? I'm just curious. It seems like it would be harder practicality-wise than personality wise, although there are vegan food choices everywhere according to the sites I've visited. On the other hand, there are also hidden animal (and even inscect!) matter in so many common foods. It strikes me that one has to be actually pretty militant about staying vegan. Is that what you mean?

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Well, that's the thing. I'm too fundamentally lazy to commit to that much of a lifestyle change. I'd prefer to live totally animal & cruelty free, but I've had to compromise, and just go to lacto-ovo veggieness.

[weezeroni.livejournal.com]

That seems sane. I have thought of that as well, but haven't committed. I still think that there are ways to make good choices within the compromise.

[rejectomorph]

Zombies are from the West Indies, aren't they? They might even have African antecedents.

There might be a North American monster or two listed at this site (I haven't had time to search through it yet.)

Of course, we could always count Dick Cheney.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I suspect you're right... so what's america got? scientific horrors? the bomb?

[rejectomorph]

Most American mythic creatures appear to be variations of old-world monsters-- ghosts and lake-dwellers similar to Nessie and such. If we go back to the native cultures, though, we get the Windigo which, while it resembles some old-world creatures, must have originated in pre-Columbian times.

[blackhellkat.livejournal.com]

I was going to say Wendigo--which I think is Native American (they can make up some very scary monsters!)

We also have the Jersey Devil, the Creature from the Black Lagoon and Bigfoot!

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Depends on what kind of zombies you mean, voodoo zombies come from the West Indies and presumably Africa before that, though I imagine Europeans may well of had tales of walking dead. But these Zombies are not the same as Romero style zombies which are more like ghouls; in fact they were never called zombies in the first movie, but rather ghouls a few times. The ghoul though, I believe comes from Arabic Ghul, and were these shape-shifting demons (Jinn) that dug and ate the dead. Thus wile obviously drawn from different sources I think the flesh eating zombie may be distinctive enough to be its own American monster.

The jersey devil like the chupa cabra all had similar antecedents in European folklore.

While aliens have been around, the Grey and the abduction tales are at least an American take on it.

[graypumpkin.livejournal.com]

Atomic Monsters are pretty American even if giant animals/monsters may have been around in European mythology.

The Blob is a pretty unique giant monster, I don't anyone had made a giant amoeba before that.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

That's true... I can't say as I've ever heard of a big blobby badguy.

[oneeyedcat.livejournal.com]

hey cool! I'm glad you got something nifty!

vampire cowboy gorilla! That's what I'm talkin' about!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

right on! Yee haw! ook ook! bleh bleh!

[kat78731.livejournal.com]

You had a Nick Fury t-shirt? Was it the Steranko Agent of Shield cover? I have a nifty SHIELD logo t-shirt. And recently found a snazzy Kong t-shirt that looks like someone revived it from the 70's.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It was a white t-shirt, with nick in his blues, running forward, gun in hand,with "Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD logo sort of arched over the top.

I had a SHIELD logo shirt, too! another white with the red whitre and blue eaqgle logo/shield.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Aw, I find your tshirt exploits interesting. :))

Watching TLC's "What Not to Wear" in my own journey to try to dress better (not saying you are), I noticed many of the males on the show have some sort of logo on their Tees. Several of the guys - excessively so. (They show makes you bring your whole wardrobe to the show with you)

When they ask the males why they felt the need to constantly promote their interests through logos, and subsequently take away the logo
t-shirts and replace them with nicer looking non-logo tshirts, the guys get freaky. Often answering that they feel it necessary for others to see the logo, and know who they *truly are* through them. I thought that was interesting.

Anyway.. through the show I finally realized that my own logo tees AND tops with prints/embroidery on them, make me look more sloppy than plain stuff does.

[juliabee.livejournal.com]

Crap, I explained that incorrectly. The most common answer when asked why they needed to wear logos on their t-shirts, the guys would usually say "Because this (whatever the logo was promoting) is who I am".

I was in the shower...NOT even thinking anything about this, and suddenly it came to mind. Heh. :D

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

funy, because I think I followed your train of thought, anyway!

hooray for shower-honed clarifications!

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I had no idea that it was a phenom on a show, too!

I still like logo/cartoony shirts but I think I have more "freedom of movement" with a plain shirt.

[phillykat.livejournal.com]

aren't the old/first zombie movies based in haiti?

i'm neutral as well. have you ever noticed that you and i seem to always get the same results in quizzes like this? we're like un-twins.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

we're a groovy pair!

[phillykat.livejournal.com]

dangit! oh i say that too. hmm wrong post i know. anyway, dangit! you got me singing "groove is in the heart." but yeah were groovy baby. *high five*