The Ghost of Richard Cheney says "Happy Halloween!!!"

From the front door of my parents house

Something cool for a lazy tuesday

Seen hanging from the ceiling of some bar in Adams Morgan

Stephanie Brown is alive!?!?

So I was just looking at a full sized scan of the last page of last weeks Teen Titans. The shot which Rokk of Comic Book Revolution has posted here includes adult version of all of every single Teen Titan.
Now while this future is still sort of the future of the DCU circa a year or two before Infinite Crisis, statements are made in the issue that make it seem like Bart and Kon-el (I refuse to call him Conner) did die in past of the Future Titans (ah the wonders of time travel), and were brought back by Tim.

So this a round about way of showing this image from the bottom right of the page

As you can see there is a certain blonde girl dressed in purple. While the costume is obviously supposed to evoke the Huntress, Helena hasn't been part of any young hero teams since pre-crisis. So who must it be...

What will happen when Tim finds here. We have seen two of women fighting over the affections of Tim Drake.

We will have to see if it happens again.

Also Tim, buddy...pal... we need to discuss your obsession with blondes. I think Star Girl is the only young, blonde super heroine that you haven't made out with.

Something awesome for Sunday

I went to the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
near Dulles yesterday. It was pure awesomeness. This is a shot of the S4-71 Blackbird that they have parked there. This bird made it from coast to coast in 60 minutes

Shabbat Shalom everyone

Friday Night Fights

As I begin my return to the Battlefield of blogging, the Legion of Superheroes show you just what will happen if you mess with even one of them

Friday Night Fights are a go!!!

From "The Legion" 16 by DnA, art by Kev Walker

Quit objectifying Green Lanterns

To Ragnell, SallyP and Kalinara:

Leave my boy Kyle alone. It is not his fault that he has a good ass, and it is extremely sexist to continually post pictures of semi-naked Green Lanterns and to marvel at their asses.

Or at least it is as sexist as anyone else commenting about how good looking any of the female superhero's are.

So leave him, and his ass alone, or he will kick your ass, and look good while doing it.

But you can have Hal Jordan, since a) he is an idiot and b) he obviously like to show his stuff off as much as Power Girl (or at least thats what the 500 Million pictures of his ass that you three have posted make it seem like)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On a completely separate note: Dr. Soranik Natu is, in addition to being smart, and able to stand up to Guy Gardener, really hot (though only really when Gleeson draws her)

Zuda begins

So Newsarama has just posted the first 10 Zuda Contestants here

While some look mildly interesting there is only one which I will actually be reading.

Alpha Monkey
Writer/Artist: Bobbie Rubio/Howard M. Shum
Summary: In a misguided attempt to save his son from the destruction of Earth by a comet (which then happens to miss the Earth entirely) a scientist rockets his son into another dimension. The child ends up on a parallel world ruled by Monkeys! Given unique powers by the planet’s bananas, the young boy fights off invading monsters as the planet’s new defender, Alpha Monkey!

It looks like the backstory will be a nice twist on the Superman back story and that alone...and I really do mean alone (the whole monkey bit is kind of played out) makes it more interesting than the other titles.

[update 10/25: I should note that I will probably be looking at all of them, but that Alpha Monkey is the only one which really jumps out at me]

The SoCal Fires

One of the cracks that I make about Southern California is that, unlike Northern California, the south of the state tends to burst into flames every once in a while.

However, in the two years that I lived in Irvine, the fires never started up, and the only thing that the Santa Ana winds brought us was a warm summer.

This year, however, it seems like most of SoCal is aflame. I had heard about Malibu being engulfed in flame and about celebrities loosing their houses. But then I saw two things that hit the fires home for me.

First of all, the foothills above Irvine are aflame and in an area not a 10 minute drive from where I lived.
Secondly, 250,000 people have been ordered to evacuate in San Diego today. Yes you read that correctly,

Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand People!!!

Check the LA Times for more info

Thousands of firefighters are on the scene and more are probably going to be coming. Of course this is something that the California National Guard would be great for, but they, and their helicopters and probably all in Iraq now.

Oh and Glen Beck thinks that those who are loosing their homes tonight are people who hate America. Glad to see that there are still assholes out there who will make political points out of horrible tragedies like this.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

So to all of my friends in Southern California: Keep safe and I hope that you and your loved ones make it out of all of this one.

Something awesome for Sunday

The 5th Doctor and the 10th Doctor are going to be meeting in the Children in Need charity special. The episode is written by the always awesome Steven Moffat. For more information look to the BBC.

The Countdown to November 16th begins!

Things that make Yonatan a very happy boy

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL HC
Written by Keith Giffen & J.M. DeMatteis
Cover by Maguire & Austin
Art by Kevin Maguire, Terry Austin and Al Gordon
A new hardcover collecting the classic JUSTICE LEAGUE #1-6 and JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #7 from the late 1980s! Can an unlikely new Justice League line-up work as a unit to stop terrorists at the U.N., a brigade of Rocket Reds, the Royal Flush Gang, and other threats — or will they succumb to in-fighting and bad jokes?
Advance-solicited; in stores March 12 • FC, 192 pg, $24.99 US

I believe the appropriate response is...fuck yeah!

I went to the White House Yesterday

Well... actually I wondered around the gardens for a few minutes. The White House was having one of the garden tours. But it was still really cool getting that close to the White House.

Plus I got the bits of outside corridor through which the President would walk from the Oval Office to the Residence on The West Wing. If the geography of the White House in real life matches the one on the West Wing, then the picture below is of the Oval Office as seen through the rose garden.

What ever the case may be it made for a very cool Sunday, especially since I hadn't planned on going to the White House. One Hilarious thing that happened was that I saw a couple of White House interns walking past and they were both talking about Jack Bauer.

Today I don't have work, but tomorrow I start a new assignment with AIPAC for a week. Plus I get back my laptop.

This is freaky

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.



Taken from here...plus go there for more information

For me she only moves clockwise. Advantage to being a Lefty I guess

To all the Republicans crying about Graeme Frost

Here is what this Kid said

Well it seems that the Republican party hates the child now and wants to destroy him.

Here is a summery of what has been going on from Kos:

Fuck You HP

Fuck You for selling me a Laptop that has a shitty cooling system
Fuck You for selling me a Laptop in which one of the USB ports breaks after a month
Fuck You for selling me a Laptop where the wireless card stops working after 8 months
Fuck You for telling me that I had water damage on my Laptop and thus I will have to pay you $800 to get the system fixed.

Fuck you for generally treating my dad like crap since the bubble burst.

Basically just fuck you in general.


I am this close to being done with Laptops. Until a system is made that can handle everyday normal wear and tear without turning into a brick...


I have a desktop system back at home that I built myself with my own hands back in the summer of 2003.

It has a Gig of RAM, 160 Gig's of Disc Space, a 120MB Video Card, one of the first DVD+-RW drives a second DVD Player and (because it was $9.99) a 3 1/4 in Floppy Drive


I didn't quite build it correctly .

Somewhere in the construction of the colling system i screwed up and thus the computer is always a lot hotter on the inside than it should be. I have to turn off two of the sensors otherwise that would be constantly beeping at me.

The only problem that I have had with the system is the colling problems.

The only money I have spent fixing the system is replacing, as of last month, all 4 of the case fans ($9.99 each)

I have also added a TV card to the system and was thus able to watch season 5 of Angel even though there hasn't been a TV in my home since 1996. It was also very useful in the Dorms since I was able to watch TV in my room.

In that time period I have gone though 2 laptops.

While I am going to try to get my old Laptop out here (since it only really needed a new battery), the thing I would really like to get is my desktop.

Sigh...

Hopefully I can get something out of HP.

Stephanie Brown

Ah Stephanie Brown, aka the Spoiler aka Robin IV.
I really liked her character (especially when she showed up in Batgirl) and was sad to see her killed (even though I had dropped the Bat-Books around the time she became Robin since I didn't like the new writers is the Post New-Gotham era.)

I do remember her getting savaged on the DC Message Boards back in the day (this is before I found the Comics Blogsphere) and I got the impression that she wasn't much liked.

So I have this question for everyone out there.



When did she become so popular?
I certainty don't remember her being this "big" back in the day.

Green Lantern Corps

Any issue that begins with two planets locked in combat can only be the most awesome thing of the week.
Really there is just so much amazingly cool things going on in this issue that everyone needs to go out and get it now , or for those at Big Monkey who didn't get the issue since they sold out...I guess you can wait till the weekend to get it.

The only only thing that would have made the issue even better would be an appearance by my favorite Green Lantern and one of my favorite/ one of the best female characters in comicdom, Dr. Soranik Natu. She was sooo awesome in the last few issues of GL Corps that her presence is sorely missed this issue.

Also I think everyone should appreciate the fact that the picture below is almost the full cast of GL Corps, missing only Guy Gardener Soranik Natu and Sodom Yat.
While about 1/2 of the cast is somewhat hominoid, much of the Lanterns are anything but. I find that cool.

My mind is Officially Blown.. Google Launches a 411 Services

Can Google do no wrong?

This is just amazing... I mean...wow

MV Pride!!!

Doctor Who, Life and Updates

For Years now I have had an almost complete collection of the Doctor Who novelization that were done by Target Publishing (nothing to do with the US retailer.) In fact I am only missing 4 of the novelizations. Mission to the Unknown and The Mutation of Time (the two Novelizations of the 12 part Daleks Masterplan from the First Doctor's era and The Happiness Patrol from the 7th Doctor's era. Oh and I still dont have two of the "Missing" 6th Doctor stories (The Ultimate Evil and Mission to Magnus) but since they were never actually broadcast they dont count as much. Other than that I have everything, the episode guides put out during the 5th Doctor's era, the Quiz books,I have it all. Hell I even have Turlough and The Earthlink Dilemma, Harry Sullivan's War and I believe I even have the Crossword Puzzle book.

Well as of yesterday, I can tick one off of my list as I received the copy of Mission to the Unknown that I had purchased on Ebay. So, this afternoon, for the first time since the mid-90's I will have a new Target novelization to read. I cant wait.

In other news, my laptop, which was purchased new in January has decided to stop working. Luckily I have a backup of the system and it is still under warranty. Unfortunately, the backup is from early August so the pictures that I uploaded since then are now lost as are the IM logs for the last year. Thank goodness for uploading pictures to Facebook.

Went and saw Alan Alda talk last week. He is a very funny man, and I am almost finished with his first book "Never have your dog stuffed: and other things I've learned"

Current Assignment: Trust for America's Health: Database Creation and Archiving News Articles
Weeks I have been on assignment: 4