Excellent T-Shirt
Posted on April 3rd, 2009 by Ghostshark
I thought that this t-shirt, named The beginning, was pretty damn good.
If you like it, you can grab one over at Threadless.com HERE.
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Travel Planners. Worst. Company. Ever.
Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Ghostshark
I had a really nice, long rant about how bad the company Travel Planners is. If you don't know they're the company, for some ungodly reason, that the San Diego Comic Convention uses to get people discounts on hotel rooms. However, my post was nuked when, at the end of it of course, my browser freaked out and I lost everything.
The title of this post really gets my point across I think. They're system is terrible, breaks down every year, and the waiting room thing that they installed this year actually made things worse.
I cannot understand why the Con uses this company year after year, when they do nothing but get worse.
The really sad thing is, that if I hadn't have already bought my plane ticket with credit card points that aren't refundable (like the idiot I am) I probably wouldn't be going at all. Although I'm going to have to take another look at the whole points thing.
Next year I plan on going to the New York convention. It seemed to have pretty much everything the San Diego one has, it's a hell of a lot closer, more hotels, and I have a number of friends there that I could crash with if I wanted to.
I'll really miss San Diego, as it really is one of my top three places I would like to move to. Plus, hitting the NY Con just won't be the same, and I'm sure not as good. It'll be worth it though, for the simple fact that I won't have to stress at all about getting a hotel through Travel Planners.
It does sound kind of harsh to kick the Con to the curb just for the utter lack of comptence of Travel Planners, but it's why spend the extra money for basically the same Con,and deal with the hassle when you don't need to?
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I haven’t Forgotten
Posted on March 17th, 2009 by DVO
No, I haven't already abandoned my post again. Things just get crazy around here occasionally. And by occasionall,y I mean that every twelve-ish hours some drama makes its presence known to me.
Prime example: Around this time yesterday, my wife's car was working on exploding on one of the major freeways here in town. Today was met with an afternoon at home with a pukey little boy.
Sadly, this is what passes for a St. Patty's Day celebration in my home. Truth be told though, even without the pukey boy, I'd probably still be at home today. I have distinct dislike for stupid people in large groupings, of which there are more than a few out and and about on the glorious drinking holiday.
I'm slowly working my way back through Watchmen again. IT's probably been ten years since I last read it. And no, I have not seen the film yet. How long do I have befor ethey revoke my nerd card for not seeing it? Anyhow, the rest of the non-posting gang here have vewed the film and shared their general thoughts. Perhaps if you all are lucky they will share them here before Watchmen 2: Electric Boogaloo comes to theaters.
I'll be back at some point with those Sandman thoughts. I swear . . .
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This Could Be Fun
Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Ghostshark
I can't see me buying this, maybe, but I'm definitely going to have to flip through it:
LOCKJAW AND THE PET AVENGERS #1 (OF 4)
Writer: Chris Eliopoulos, Pencils:Ig Guara, Covers: Karl Kerschl, Niko Henrichon
On sale May 6, 32 pgs, $2.99
pg 12-Marvel
And there came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes were unaware of a threat greater than all of them could handle. And on that day, a teleporting puppy scoured the world to assemble a team of animals to fight the foes no single beast could withstand! Strap on your collar and hop on-board the adventures of Lockjaw, Lockheed, Redwing, Hairball and an all-new Frog Thor!
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Quick Hits
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by DVO
Glass of wine in hand.
Blank Post before me.
Here we go.
- Can we all agree that Final Crisis was a decent high concept, but far from being Morrison's best work in execution?
- How about we say the same for Bendis and Secret Invasion?
- Four bucks a comic? Bullshit.
- I want to be more interested in Dark Reign than I actually am. I'm betting the previous bullet has a mega crapload to do with that
- I'm now four episodes behind on Heroes
- And five behind on Lost.
- My DVR is set to keep 7 episodes before it starts deleting them. Historically once shit starts getting deleted I stop caring and kill them all. The clock is ticking on those two shows.
- In spite of knowing I would seriously regret it the next day, I'm still debating a midnight showing of Watchmen on Thursday.
- I haven't bagged and boarded a comic since we were all posting regularly. If you happen to have seen some of my weekly reading lists, that gives you an idea of how much work I have to do.
- Am I the only one who thinks that X-Factor is the best X-Book going right now?
- Does it negate my previous statement if I'm only reading two X-Books regularly?
- I have no intention of buying any of the Ultimate titles after Ultimatum has come and gone.
- If anyone out there reading this is planning on buying "Battle for the Cowl" could you write in and explain to me why?
- What's the last statement anyone has read from Didio or Quesada that made the last bit of damned sense? I can't remember now.
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold is an awesome cartoon.For all my efforts to hook my son on Batman : The Animated Series, Brave and the Bold is what has him hooked on Batman.
- Ditto that for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Little dude loses his freakin' mind every time that show comes on tv.
- Not so much the case for Wolverine and the Xmen. Maybe we just haven't given it enough of a shot.
- Am I the only nerd who has never seen an episode of the new Battlestar Galactica?
- Ghost Shark and I have been going through some kind of horror movie remake revival. Thus far this year we've hit My Bloody Valentine and Friday the 13th. I would not want to bet money against us going to see Last House of the Left as well.
- I cannot get "I'm on A Boat" by The Lonely Island out of my head. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, go search it on youtube. If you don't think it's funny, you are probably on this sight by accident anyhow.
And finally . . .
- I just finished up all The Sandman trades. Incredible work made even more incredible by the fact I got them all 50% off.I'm willing to bet that has a ton to do with my general discontent with the rest of comics. But that probably deserves it's own post at a later date.
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