Thursday, September 23, 2010
378th post
I have only one thing to say about this year's American political voting season:
This guy is awesome.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Secret of Platform 13", by Eva Ibbotson ((c) 1994)
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Secret of Platform 13", by Eva Ibbotson ((c) 1994)
Labels: empty-headed people, picture, random
Thursday, March 18, 2010
The cover to today's Green Lantern Corps issue
Saturday, February 06, 2010
Well, I guess I'm not immune either...
A few posts back I laughed at the inadvertently dirty language in a short story's narration. Since then, I chanced upon an old English project: a diary written from the perspective of a young alien on another planet. The confused grammar in the April 13th entry caught my eye, and after a good laugh, I decided to fess up and show that, yea, indeed everybody makes mistakes!
TODAY'S BOOK: "The School Story", by Andrew Clements ((c) 2001)
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Monday, January 18, 2010
Oh my. Oh MY.
There is practically no way the author did not know how those top two paragraphs could be misinterpreted.
FYI, this is an excerpt from "Brothers Beyond the Void", a 1952 short story by Paul Fairman, reprinted in "The Twilight Zone: The Original Series" ((c) 1985).
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
This is for all the Twilight fans
I confess! I'm a member of Team... Ed Wood.
Yep.
Ed Wood and Bela 4ever!!1!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Henry and the Clubhouse", by Beverly Cleary ((c) 1962)
Yep.
Ed Wood and Bela 4ever!!1!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Henry and the Clubhouse", by Beverly Cleary ((c) 1962)
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Possibly the greatest line of poetry ever written
Bill Watterson, poetic genius.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Marv", by Marilyn Sachs ((c) 1970)
Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Oh deary deary me.
The first rule about Rule 34 is: you do not want to know about Rule 34. (I'll bet that somewhere out there, someone has already slashed Quark and that electrified fence...)
TODAY'S BOOK: "Big Trouble", by Dave Barry ((c) 1999)
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Ezekiel 37:1-14
The hand of the LORD was upon me, and the LORD carried me out in a spirit, and set me down in the midst of the valley, and it was full of bones;
and He caused me to pass by them round about, and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
And He said unto me: 'Son of man, can these bones live?' And I answered: 'O Lord GOD, Thou knowest.'
Then He said unto me: 'Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them: O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.'
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a commotion, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
Then said He unto me: 'Prophesy unto the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.'
So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great host.
Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people.
And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, saith the LORD.'
and He caused me to pass by them round about, and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
And He said unto me: 'Son of man, can these bones live?' And I answered: 'O Lord GOD, Thou knowest.'
Then He said unto me: 'Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them: O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD:
Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live.
And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.'
So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a commotion, and the bones came together, bone to its bone.
And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.
Then said He unto me: 'Prophesy unto the breath, prophesy, son of man, and say to the breath: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.'
So I prophesied as He commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great host.
Then He said unto me: 'Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel; behold, they say: Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.Therefore prophesy, and say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel.And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O My people.
And I will put My spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land; and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken, and performed it, saith the LORD.'
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Upstairs Room", by Johanna Reiss ((c) 1972)
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Sadly, in his later years Harry drifted into a life of crime.
For the record, this was excerpted from "The Adventure of the Seven Black Cats", a 1933 short story by Ellery Queen, reprinted in "Alfred Hitchcock's Daring Detectives" ((c) 1969).
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Friday, May 08, 2009
274th post
These were the top 32 results for a Google Images search for "32", except for the fourth, tenth, twenty-first and twenty-ninth pictures, which refused to upload.
TODAY'S BOOK: "The Battle for the Atlantic", by Jay Williams ((c) 1959)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Let's Glorify Guy Week
Coming right on the heels of Bash Batman Week, GLBF! is now soliciting glorifications of tough-guy Green Lantern Guy Gardner. In this whole city I think the only place you can find Guy in a comic book is my collection of the four Blue Beetle TPB volumes, in which he guest stars three times in a span of 25 issues.
A wonderful character moment from issue #1, one of just many exhibited during the series' run.
This has absolutely nothing to do with glorifying Guy, but I simply could not resist including one of the absolutely greatest scenes in the entire series, from issue #14.
Here we have Guy glorifying himself...
And here's him beating up the Ultra-Humanite with his bare hands.
Capping off his guest appearance in the issue, we have Guy both being nicely nostalgic about his ol' buddy Ted Kord and being blunt about being blunt.
And finally...
Issue #25 is one of my all-time favorite comic book issues ever, and I think this may be my single favorite page in the entire series--when reading the issue for the first time, I jumped up and squealed like a girl when I reached this page. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. Combining maximum doses of Win, Pwnage, Awesomesauce and Cuteness, this is Guy Gardner at his glorious best.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Left-Handed Shortstop", by Patricia Reilly Giff ((c) 1989)
A wonderful character moment from issue #1, one of just many exhibited during the series' run.
This has absolutely nothing to do with glorifying Guy, but I simply could not resist including one of the absolutely greatest scenes in the entire series, from issue #14.
Here we have Guy glorifying himself...
And here's him beating up the Ultra-Humanite with his bare hands.
Capping off his guest appearance in the issue, we have Guy both being nicely nostalgic about his ol' buddy Ted Kord and being blunt about being blunt.
And finally...
Issue #25 is one of my all-time favorite comic book issues ever, and I think this may be my single favorite page in the entire series--when reading the issue for the first time, I jumped up and squealed like a girl when I reached this page. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. Combining maximum doses of Win, Pwnage, Awesomesauce and Cuteness, this is Guy Gardner at his glorious best.
TODAY'S BOOK: "Left-Handed Shortstop", by Patricia Reilly Giff ((c) 1989)
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Apparently, Peter Parker's middle name is Calvin.
The Spectacular Spider-Man #27 (June 2005)
The snowmen are even drawn in a Watterson-y style. Plus, we also know he has a rich fantasy life because the issue is devoted to him talking to an imaginary Uncle Ben (Ben Hobbes Parker?). Later on in The Amazing Spider-Man #536 (November '06), he also carries on a conversation with his younger self (pictured: a snippet).
Bonus!
GLBF! is having another Bash Batman Week, and I've decided to chip in this time with a little vignette from The Batman Adventures #25 (Nov. 1994). Cheers!
TODAY'S BOOK: "Tuesday the Rabbi Saw Red", by Harry Kemelman ((c) 1973)
