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| Dinner: Williamson Bros. Dessert: Douceur de France |
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Geek take two (Batman and Joker Tangent)
I know that it's fashionable nowadays to be into the Joker and into Batman. And I honestly applaud those geeks and geekettes that are chasing their bliss in the colored pages of the Dark Knight, or even those that just find their joy in the recent plethora of films that put the Bat-Fam and their Rouges Gallery on the Silver Screen.
I'm honestly not trying to hipsterize my interest in the Deranged/Dynamic Duo. But they have fascinated me for the majority of my life.
I even have the two of them locked in duality inked onto my forearm forever:
In 1989 Tim Burton brought to life the Clown Prince of Crime in the form of the amazing and talented Jack Nicholson. Giving my generation their first live action glimpse at both Batman as well as the Joker in this film, I was hooked. Point blank, I was hooked.
I walked around for months quoting "Do you want to dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?" without even really knowing what that meant, let alone that Burton had bastardized one of the most compelling origin stories in the DC vault by shoehorning Joker as the one to kill Bruce Wayne's parents way back when.
And no, I'm not going to say or disclaim "spoiler alert" for stores that are decades old. Get over it.
But there was something about Jack's Joker that sparked an interest in a young viking. . . the gleeful chaos, the laughing murder, the deadly jokes. . . I'm not really sure. I do know though that since this was my first Joker he colored my vision of all Jokers yet to come!
More to come next time!
I'm honestly not trying to hipsterize my interest in the Deranged/Dynamic Duo. But they have fascinated me for the majority of my life.
I even have the two of them locked in duality inked onto my forearm forever:
In 1989 Tim Burton brought to life the Clown Prince of Crime in the form of the amazing and talented Jack Nicholson. Giving my generation their first live action glimpse at both Batman as well as the Joker in this film, I was hooked. Point blank, I was hooked.
I walked around for months quoting "Do you want to dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?" without even really knowing what that meant, let alone that Burton had bastardized one of the most compelling origin stories in the DC vault by shoehorning Joker as the one to kill Bruce Wayne's parents way back when.
And no, I'm not going to say or disclaim "spoiler alert" for stores that are decades old. Get over it.
But there was something about Jack's Joker that sparked an interest in a young viking. . . the gleeful chaos, the laughing murder, the deadly jokes. . . I'm not really sure. I do know though that since this was my first Joker he colored my vision of all Jokers yet to come!
More to come next time!
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Darr Syn is being mean
He won't let me buy tubfuls of nacho cheese from Restaurant Depot so I can take a nacho bath.
I am very sad.
I am very sad.
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Date Night
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| Dinner: Texas Roadhouse Dessert: Douceur de France |
Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Geek-ness
I'm a geek. I'm also a nerd.
There's a difference there, but that is a conversation for another time.
But, to be specific I'm a DC comic book geek. I actually made a choice a few years ago to do that to myself. I was in my late 30s and was finally in a position where I had a wee bit of extra money and could . . . *gasp* spoil myself a little! So after really REALLY thinking things through I decided that I did, in fact, want to involve myself in comics.
Then came the choice of WHICH comics to read. I mean, let's not fool ourselves here, no one can realistically keep up with ALL the comics out there and still manage any sort of "life" as an adult. Those that I've seen attempt this have become caricatures of the "comic book guy" from the Simpsons. . . including the complexion!
So after looking at titles in print, number of recent (decade) reboots, and major title crossover events it became very clear to me that while Marvel has a storied history and wonderfully complex universe they are pretty prone to blowing the whole thing up and starting over. In a decade they had something like 14 different world ending/rebooting/shattering crossover events that were REQUIRED reading. That's more than one a year! So just when you get caught up, everything changes and starts over.
That sounded like less fun and more homework to me.
Besides, they have the movies going that I'm still a huge fan of at the moment!
So I went back to my first comic crush. Batman and DC.
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To be continued!
There's a difference there, but that is a conversation for another time.
But, to be specific I'm a DC comic book geek. I actually made a choice a few years ago to do that to myself. I was in my late 30s and was finally in a position where I had a wee bit of extra money and could . . . *gasp* spoil myself a little! So after really REALLY thinking things through I decided that I did, in fact, want to involve myself in comics.
Then came the choice of WHICH comics to read. I mean, let's not fool ourselves here, no one can realistically keep up with ALL the comics out there and still manage any sort of "life" as an adult. Those that I've seen attempt this have become caricatures of the "comic book guy" from the Simpsons. . . including the complexion!
So after looking at titles in print, number of recent (decade) reboots, and major title crossover events it became very clear to me that while Marvel has a storied history and wonderfully complex universe they are pretty prone to blowing the whole thing up and starting over. In a decade they had something like 14 different world ending/rebooting/shattering crossover events that were REQUIRED reading. That's more than one a year! So just when you get caught up, everything changes and starts over.
That sounded like less fun and more homework to me.
Besides, they have the movies going that I'm still a huge fan of at the moment!
So I went back to my first comic crush. Batman and DC.
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To be continued!
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
Holiday Weight
I surprised that I only gained 4 lbs total over the holidays and a lot of that was thanks to the sodium in Chinese food. Thankfully, I have lost it again so I can get back on track!
Since July 2018: 80 pounds down, 120 pounds to go!
Since July 2018: 80 pounds down, 120 pounds to go!
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| Image: Deviant Art/Gambas Sauvage |
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