I saw the new Batman movie last night and I gotta say: I miss the realism that Schumacher brought to the franchise. Gotham city needs its homeless huddled around neon green fires. It needs neon spotlights everywhere. It needs villains with their $1,000,000,000 complexes with millions of dollars of custom neon lights and rotating spotlights. It needs every single inch of the town to look like a rave.

Yeah, I had the misfortune of catching some of both Batman Forever and Batman and Robin before seeing Batman: The Dark Knight last night. I would really like to know the thoughts of Joel Schumacher after seeing how it can be properly done.

Wow. What a great movie though.

So, life in Cotati has been good so far. I have friends that live here so I'm kept a little more busy than in Seaside. Right after I moved here they had a dinner party, here was the menu:

1st Course
Terrine of Grilled Pheasant Sausage served over Herb Risotto
*
J Cuvee 20

2nd Course
Caramelized Onion & Chevre Tart
*
Lepore Rose

3rd Course
Pan seared Whitetail Deer Ribeye with Sauteed Mushrooms & Baby Arugula
*
2000 Rafanelli Cabernet

Intermezzo
2001 Beringer Private Reserve Cabernet Sorbet

4th Course
Grilled Elk Top Sirloin with Savory Potato Pancake & Blackberry Juniper Demiglace
*
2000 Rafanelli Terrace Select Cabernet

5th Course
Buttermilk Pie with Fruit Compote
Moscato D'Asti

Great stuff. I would have included pictures (and I was planning on posting this a while ago) but I got tired of waiting on my friend to email me the pictures that I took.

Still on unemployment. The break has been good. Its given me some time to sit back a bit and think of what I want to do next, time to read and time to paint Warhammer figures. I have a few art projects that I want to do as well.

When I moved I didn't have internet for several weeks. I was rather sad that most of the sets that went up were ones that I had already seen in member review.

Now I know the anguish of losing a post. (who the hell uses the word "anguish" anymore?)

What the hell did I write again?

Yeah, yeah, I'm finally updating.

I was in the crowd here:

I saw Tigerliily, Salome, Nixon and of course, Sydni at Lil Tuffy's Winter Ball. All of which put on a great show.

I went to WonderCon this last weekend. Its nice going to a comic-book convention and the show mainly being about comic-books. San Diego is fun but comic-books seem to have taken a back seat to movie studios and other random crap. 130,000 people fighting for space makes it all the less appealing. I don't know if I ever want to go back to SD.

Anyone else like The Sarah Conner Chronicles? I'm kinda liking that show.

My job is wrapping up here in a few months. If we stay working for this company, it'll mean moving back to Ukiah. I don't know if I want to do that. Unemployment will be nice for a while, I can use the break.

I always liked the melody of this song. Until recently, I thought it was only an instrumental:

New rule:

From now on I'm only going to comment on a set after,
a) I see the whole thing and not just the last 10 or so pictures.
b) I make sure that I read the intro.
c) If the set is based on some book that apparently every 13 year old girl reads, go read said book.
d) I make sure I reference out every bit of imagery.
e) Look through the girls pictures and read every journal entry to make sure shes not into anything weird.
f) Look her up on Myspace to make sure she doesn't have any nazi symbols.
g) maybe do a google search on her to make sure she checks out.

This girl is magic:

Horrible cell phone taping but it makes me pissed that I missed the show in SF. (note to self, get tickets before the show. Showing up expecting to get tickets, bad idea.)

Lets see, new stuff....took not just one but two vacations in July. Drove down to Arizona to meet some internet friends, started a little something with the girl that hosted the event. But now two months later, I guess its over.

Damn it, damn it, damn it.

Saw some neat things while down there:




The second trip was to Comic-Con. I really don't want to go to that show anymore. I hate big crowds like that.
I still had fun, its just that after going to Arizona, I don't want to spend time off from work amidst 120,000 people.
Clouds are simply better in Arizona then they are in California.

Every time I turn on MSNBC anymore, there is a show on jail life. Is it fascinating watching guys in the pokey?

As I was driving home today, there was a used car lot where all the hoods were up. "Yep, there is an engine. Good thing it has one of those. Wouldn't buy it if it didn't." Do people think that?
Its not like any of them looked like this:


Too Seinfeldy?

Speaking of Seinfeld, I have George Costanza moments when it comes to giving feedback on ebay. If I buy something and immediately pay for it, I've completed my end of the deal. When I get the object, I'll get notes that say, "Please leave me positive feedback and I'll do the same." Hey Fucker, how about this? I paid you your money, you give me feedback first and then when I get the item and you've completed things on your end, then I'll give you some feedback.

There are lawn nazis where I live. My door is covered with "water your lawn" notices. I don't take them down anymore since they are irrelevant. I'll get a notice one day and the next day there'll be a $10.00 off my rent coupon for keeping my lawn so nice, which of course is worthless because my job pays my rent for me. Damn lawn cult.

It's the weekend again! Bike ride tomorrow and playing Warhammer on Sunday. The bad thing about weekends is that the damn things go by way too fast.

Maybe I should end these things with a jehovah's witness fact since I was raised as one:
They have 4 day long conventions in the summer called district assemblies held at a large event center. They completely cover the mirrors in the bathroom so people don't waste their time combing their hair or making sure their lunch isn't still on their teeth.

Close your eyes and think of England!



I love this song, despite its rather disturbing nature.

There was a first for me today at Wondercon, today for the first time I met a Suicide Girl.
The lovely miss Cedar.
And she gave me not just one but two hugs.



I RULE!
(raises fist ala-Kevin Spacey in American Beauty)

I don't have any of her pictures in my favorites? I am completely embarrassed. I must go remedy that.

I hate Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly. I really do. But at least you know where they are coming from. One could argue with them and without question you would show them where they lied, are wrong with their facts or just giving us white house spin. I can almost admire their unethical nature at times.

And then there is Glenn Beck. I think I despise him even more. Or maybe I hate CNN for even giving him a show. With Glenn, he makes his argument and you feel like you can't argue back because it's impolite to argue with the retarded guy.


The gall of these guys for not taking the press seriously....

Hey, I've got an idea!

Lets all rock down to Electric Avenue....

....and then we'll take that fucker all sorts of higher!

As soon as I get used to a new format they go and change it again.

This will not do.

And I really hate seeing my ex's testimonial everytime I look at my page.