Or Most Awesomest Comic Book Characters (A Definitive List)?
Let's see this list.
An excerpt:
1) Miracleman (natch)
2) Captain Marvel
3) Batman
4) Superman
5) Grendel (any incarnation, really)
6) Flash (preferably Barry Allen, but Wally West will do. And Jay Garrick is kind of the bomb, yo.)
7) Wolverine (okay, as a teen I was all about the "Grr, I kill you" *snikt snikt* thing, I admit it.)
8) Swamp Thing (after Alan Moore took him over and made him interesting)
9) V (speaking of Alan Moore)
10) Ambush Bug ('cause he's funny)
Well, I went crazy and volunteered to pay the difference for friend's childcare for the toddler daughter, if they couldn't manage it.
You really are a great friend, sarameg. Even if they don't take you up on the offer I'm sure having your friendship is a huge support for them.
Shir, I hope your sister is able to come home for the holiday. Not being able to see her or talk to her regularly must make it so much harder. My thoughts are with you and your family.
oh, and, happy birthday, ND!!
man, it's my mom's and my good friend's birthdays this weekend and I have NO ideas about presents. Maybe I'll just promise my mom a train trip down here, pedicure, and day at one of the museums. Sometime this summer. That's always fun.
am tired, but have coffee, hope is not all lost.
Happy Birthday Noise Design.
I was off on Monday and stayed home with a migraine yesterday, and I feel very behind being back today.
So I was planning to post about my mouse experience this morning, but it's been superceded. This is the first anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings and I was poking around the net, sort of looking for any commentary on the similarities to the shootings at my college, and I found that the guy from those shootings (15 years ago) was actually interviewed by Newsweek in the weeks following the Tech shootings. And he sounds... rational. Normal. Introspective and with an understanding of things. In support of gun control. And obviously he wasn't batshit, or we would have noticed, and I'm sure they have therapy in prison, and besides, 15 years... but it's still really, really strange.
So maybe I'll erase this post, but at the moment you're the people I talk to about stuff (well, and all the lurkers. Hello, lurkers! Welcome to painful details of my personal life!), so I wanted to say it.
And Shir, I can't imagine living with what you do, and I certainly hope your sister can come home.
Also, and completely unrelatedly, does anyone here speak Arabic, or have otherwise an opinion on the best way to go about acquiring a smattering? I'm going to email Fay as well.
Oh, the banality of evil, Emily. I'm certain it has to be painful to wonder why he couldn't have gotten the therapy before pulling the trigger -- so sad that mental illness can be successfully treated but is so hard to get.
