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Nitz the Bloody

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Subj: I remember doing those things once upon a time...
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 at 11:01:47 am EST (Viewed 4 times)
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I'll start.

Reading ( Prose ): The Sherman Alexie book " Indian Killer ", a multi-perspective murder mystery about a Spokane-Indian themed serial killer who scalps their victims. Given Alexie's literary background, the focus is more on the wave of anti-Native American bigotry sparked by the murders, rather than the mystery itself.

Reading ( Comics ): Invincible Iron Man by Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca is my favorite superhero comic on the stands at the moment, for so directly and brutally addressing Tony Stark's self-hating ablism by forcing him to sequentially lobotomize himself ( I won't spoil how the World's Most Wanted story wrapped up here, but....damn ). For graphic novels, I finally got my own copy of We3 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely, a brilliant animal rights story with surprisingly non-anthropomorphized protagonists.

Watching ( TV ): Teppen Toppa Gurren Lagann, the anime by Studio Gainax that could be considered a Crowning Series of Awesome. Galaxy-sized drills powered by sheer determination? Sold!

Watching ( Movie ): Planet 51, an awful animated movie I saw on behalf of a young boy I've done some behavioral work with. I'm glad he enjoyed it, because I only got five minutes into the " the alien world is like 50's America and the human is the alien " gimmick before I was terminally bored by the predictable puerility.

Playing: Super Smash Bros. Brawl for Wii, the greatest feat of Nintendo nostalgia porn to date, with a pretty good fighting game attached as well.

Any others?

I'm unfortunately not reading much of anything these days, other than random internet snippets between scrabbling for paying work and sending out resumes. So I'm busy, but at a fraction of the income I was making before the company I worked for went under, leaving me with little free time or money. So that kind of sucks.

However, in my internet readings I'm learning various super-hero related facts such as:

Superman apparently set up shop down in Mexico:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/photogalleries/giant-crystals-cave/index.html


Also, it's probably not too early to start designing your own functioning super-suit, since clothing that will do pretty much whatever you want will be available soon enough:
http://www.cracked.com/article/212_5-materials-that-will-make-world-as-we-know-it-obsolete/