As most of you know by now, I am crazy over my birthday. For years, it has been a running joke that I start advertising early for it and let those around me know all about it. Most get the joke. A few others don't or just get annoyed. Hey, we all get one day. I realize I jokingly stretch that day into weeks, but am I really hurting your fragile feelings to the point of anger?
I feel I need to express a mea culpa about the upcoming birthday festivities. This year, I've decided to have a dinner with close friends. Drinks with more friends after. The place is tiny so I had to limit the guest list. If you didn't get the invite...sorry. Invitees were friends that I see/talk to all of the time. Not just online friends or cavalier friends or made up friends like Snuffaluffagus. Please don't take it personally. Besides, you can still show your love and buy me something off of my Amazon Wish List!
Kidding! (Kind of...)
I still love you and will keep those naked photos to myself. Then again, I did just get a new printer/scanner as an early birthday gift so....BEWARE!
It's my good friend's birthday next week on Wednesday, December 9th. You probably know him because he knows everyone famous. His name is Jimmy Aquino. I'm stumped as to what to buy him. I know he's turning all old like you but he still acts like a little kid. Any suggestions, Avenger of the Night?
- Not Jimmy Aquino Pretending To Be A Little Kid
Deark NJAPTBALK,
I'M THE GODDAMN BATMAN! I don't have time for this shit! But, if you really want to get him something, and you should, he does have one of those Amazon Wish List things. Click there and be taken to it. I found it really helpful for Robin's birthday because I had no idea he was such a musical theater queen.
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Paul Pope joins us at the last minute to discuss his Shakedown project as well as Battling Boy (both the movie and graphic novel). Then, the boys talk Turkey day and kids superhero costumes. News includes Global Frequency TV show (again), return of Torchwood, Grant Morrison documentary, Smallville, and CBLDF jobs! Top 3 and plugs galore. Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!
Dr. Michio Kaku, famed theoretical physicist, is finally using the force. After years of dispelling the myths of Sci-Fi as bunk, he has caved in and accepted his role as Jedi Master Kaku. He is a distant relative of Master Yoda. You can see the family resemblance.
Now the eternal battle between light and dark is balanced. Master Kaku will inevitably take on the evil that is Darth Hawking known to us mere mortals as Dr. Stephen Hawking. Don't let that chair fool you. He's a bad ass.
A new application for Twitter makes "clouds" of most popular words you use. You can pick a cloud for the day, week, month, 3 months, 6 months or year. Here is my month of verbology.
I love that I got McCrea and Ennis in there from that week we were hanging. And the rollergirl gets a wee mention too.
And here is my lexicon for the month.
Yay! Chloe is in both clouds. I do seem to curse a lot and talk about the podcast though. I wonder if I should try to make a story out of the words like we used to do in school. Oh yeah, I already did. I lived it!
The picture above will make sense soon enough. It's my sister and I at one of those old timey photo things way back in 2001. As you can see, my hair was really long. And if you didn't know, I had hair down to my bum for 20 years. Cut it to the shoulder last year and then finally went short back in May. Being part Filipino with super long hair, people often thought I was of Native American heritage. Racist whiteys!
About 6 years ago at Thanksgiving, my sister and I were at the Caesar's Palace buffet in Atlantic City. I thought I'd have a little fun. My hair was down and we were in line for food. Some Caesar's Palace workers were saying "Happy Thanksgiving" to everyone. The following scene then took place.
CP worker: Happy Thanksgiving!
Me: (Crossing my arms and sternly looking at her.) For YOU it is.
Get it? She probably thought I was an Apache or something and I threw it back in her face! Mwhahaha. It immediately became awkward as she suddenly was speechless with a look of horror on her face like she deeply offended me. My sis was cracking up and, I think, embarrassed at the same time. Comedy gold will do that to you.
Good thing I didn't try go to the concierge and ask if the blankets were diseased or tried to have the single tear falling down from my cheek (See video below). Things might have turned ugly.
Anyway, happy raping/pillaging of the proud native people of this land! I mean, uh, ...Happy Thanksgiving!
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The boys experiment doing the show via Skype because Jimmy is too lazy to leave his apartment since he's drooling over that Hayden Panettiere video and laughing hysterically at the Muppet/Bohemian Rhapsody one. David Petersen joins Joe via Skype to discuss his fantastic series, Mouse Guard. We remember Eric Martin (aka "The Question" on The Comic Forums), a big supporter of the podcast community/fellow podcaster/all around nice guy, who tragically passed last week. News includes animated Spectre, Marvel takes S.H.I.E.L.D. through history, Bjork likes Moomins, Flash Forward slows down, more U.S. Doctor Who air dates and more! Top 3 and plugs galore. Leave your iTunes comments! 5 stars and nothing but love!
I promise I'm not becoming one of those people who do nothing but post YouTube videos. But, I loves me some Muppets. And Queen. 2 great tastes that taste great together!