Comic Stop 15

Low week for me, only 5 new so it gave me some room to get some much needed back issues. Also sadly, my comic shop didn't have Superman/Batman #12. =( 4 DC, 4 Marvel. Equality.

X-Men #162
Superman #209
JLA #106
Batman #632
Amazing Spiderman #512
Ultimate Nightmare #1
Captain America & The Falcon #7
Fallen Angel #2

Rant

My ps2 wouldn't start, it's really hot here, and I haven't heard back from some people so of course I'd be in a testy mood. So I'm just going to rant on a group of animation fans that i've gotten tired of. Which is probably surprisingly large, well not really surprisingly large. So now I will just rant:

Not every damn episode that doesn't involve a key element to the show, doesn't make it automatically filler. I dislike the word filler. And I dislike fans who just openly use that word way too often. Most of the time its unjustified. Sure there are certain episodes, that.. are exactly filler. But just because it doesn't follow the manga exactly, who the hell cares? It's not the manga, its the anime. O_O Stunning concept I know.

Also. I dislike fans who must tie everything in the animation world together. This is an homage of that. This is a reference to that. Just because someone did something first, doesn't mean that anything done by anyone after it that is similar, is automatically paying homage to that original thing. Who the hell cares? If its good , its good. If its bad its bad.

Probably bad grammar and all that. I just had to let that out. If you disagree. I don't care. Unless you are a cute female. I will always make time for you then. lol.

<3 Erica Durance

Wow. I now have my new favorite Television female.. And coincidently she moves ahead of Kristin who is on the same show. Erica Durance.. She plays Lois Lane on Smallville.. And she totally fits the character in my opinion. Now where has she been my whole life.. lol. =)

Smallville Airs wednesday at 8pm on the WB. For pics of Erica: http://www.kryptonsite.com/ericadurance.htm

Trying to blog daily

Hey. Yeah, I sorta lagged here. Just been busy with school, life and AA-T. I'll definitely try to keep it sorta daily like I said I would. Just need to remind myself of somewhat interesting things that happen to me, that I should mention here. Have I mentioned how much I love women.. RAWR. lol.

Comic Stop #14

Wow.. Plenty of issues for me today. Big time spendage.. if that's a word. 9 comics, only 1 back issue. 4 DC, 5 Marvel.

Avengers #502
Ultimate Elektra #2
Robin #130
Ultimate Fantastic Four #11
Astonishing X-men #5
Teen Titans #16
Catwoman #35
Uncanny X-men #449
Fallen Angel #1

DC Direct Huntress Figure from the Batman Hush Wave 1 line. I'm a Huntress fan now. <3 Huntress. lol.

Hey Star Wars Came Out

Yay. The original trilogy came out today on DVD. I don't mind the changes unlike some crazed fanatics, even though I am a uber huge fan, thanks to my brother.. We lived on Star Wars.. Daily.. lol. Well Fry's electronics were out by the time we went by but we got a raincheck. We did get a copy from Best Buy, thanks to my mom who wanted to see the magazine that came with it.. but I don't know if we're opening it or not.. I shall see, because I want to see these movies.. on DVD.. =D

Watch The Screensavers

Hey.. Even though the hosts aren't Leo and Patrick, or Patrick and Marty, or heck, even Patrick and Kevin.. It's still a pretty good show. The new guy, Alex is growing on me and the show looks cool. Heck, it's even closer to me now so I don't have any excuse not to go be in the audience one of these days. I'll have to talk my brother into going.. =D

Anyway, the audience usually gets something, and on fridays they pick someone to give away a decent prize to. Kevin is still there, as is Dan, Yoshi and Sarah. Heck, they even got Cat to come by for a day. I'm hoping they're able to get other old school screensavers to come by and host.

Restarting Madden

I decided to restart my franchise.. I decided to go with teams that I liked, and could mold more to my liking in franchise mode. Also I updated the rosters with the ones available online. So doubly good.

I'm now playing as : Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals and the NY Giants.

Should be fun. I'm sticking with these. So many other teams I wanted to play as, but these made the final cut. Almost still too many teams, but at least I'm not playing as every team. That would be insane.

Also I've been looking at the Madden Challenge, it's 2 min quarters (which I dread, so it's gonna be tough) and on All-Madden mode. I don't have much experience on that difficulty, as I'm playing Franchise on the level right below it, All-Pro. We'll see if I decide to participate in the challenge, i want to, but only if I know I can do well.

JBL is my nephew. O_O

Yeah, a cool thing happened today. I became an uncle... again. My brother and sister-inlaw had a baby boy get born to them today. Jared. I spent all of today (up since like 5:30) watching over my niece helping out my parents with that. I lost my keys at the house, but I had such a great time with my niece. She's such a cutie. Anyway, the other grandparents came to take my niece while we went to go see my brother and sister-inlaw and the baby. Same hospital where my niece was born, so it feels weird that only 17 ish months ago we did this for her. Anyway.. very cool to have another kid in the family to be an uncle too.

Comic Stop Week 13

Actually a slow week for me when dealing with new comics, so I was able to venture out a bit and get some comics I hadn't gotten before (GA, CAP, Gotham Knights). 3 marvel, 5 DC. 5 new issues.

Green Arrow #42
Batman: Gotham Knights #57
Action Comics #819
Birds of Prey #74
Identity Crisis #4
X-men #161
Captain America and the Falcon #6
New X-Men Academy X #5

World Series of Poker 2004

Wow.. That was just an insane tournament this year. Over 2500 participants, 5 million main prize.. and Fossilman won it all. That was insane, I really didn't care for the guy, he didn't have the charisma others had, but I noticed once he was at the championship table that looking back, they showed a lot of him in the early rounds, so he had to be one of the top finishers. I was hoping John Murphy was going to win, but it looks like he lost just before the main table. He was an amusing guy, sleeping in late and losing money several days, but he was young, and fun to watch play. I'd like to participate one day, but I'm just not good enough with experience, because I know I can play.

WS 12

Pretty good haul this week for myself. I almost went yesterday instead of today, I keep forgetting about the holiday factor.. 4 DC, 2 Marvel, only 1 back issue, and I stayed away from Action Comics, although now I may get Action, because it was getting interesting now that I think back so I'm even more confused about what to drop.

Ultimate X-Men #51
Teen Titans #15
Ultimate Fantastic Four #10
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #183
JLA #105
Nightwing#97

Almost got Fallen Angel. Been tempted by all the great comments and reviews of it. I'll have to read a copy and see if I like it or not. But I probably will start getting that series. I almost got it today, but I wanted to make sure I liked it, just because people say it's good doesn't mean I'll enjoy it. Also if I get some time between class and all, look for in-depth comic reviews..

Return to Poker

Well.. I went to play poker with the guys tonight.. And the cards just didn't give me no love. I got 4 good hands the whole night. I won a small pot with one, folded before the flop only to reveal i would've had trips, everyone folded when I had Pocket Aces.. And then the last one I had highest pair, but Alan is just a bitch when it comes to getting bought out, especially if he has only something decent, and he ended up taking me on the river. I lost my money 2 hours in, but I don't feel too bad because I played my game, I only regret not playing that trips card because I was too conservative on that one, I did have 9,8.. OH well.

Perhaps the funnier part about the night was my parents calling me telling me they locked themselves out of the house. My dad went to pick up my mom from her class, and thought she had keys on her, but she didn't. So I ended up having to go home, it was a mess for them trying to find me, but I didn't mind leaving early since I was out already. Came home and did this post.

Madden 05 Week 1

I'm playing the latest Madden's franchise mode, and I felt like posting the weekly results here in my blog.. I'm the owner of 4 teams: Miami, San Francisco, NY Giants and the Raiders. I'm playing as 3 of them, and just simulating the Raiders because I'd rather wait till season 2 to play as them. I'm playing on All-pro difficulty and 8 minute quarters.

Raiders: 1-0, 26-8 over Steelers.
NY Giants: 1-0, 31-30 over Philadelphia, at Philly.
Miami: 1-0, 34-12 over Tenessee.
San Francisco: 1-0, 37-24 over Atlanta.

Highlight of the Week: (Giants) Down 30-10 Entering the 4th quarter, Kurt Warner leads the Giants to 3 consecutive Touchdowns to defeat the Eagles 31-30 in rainy Philly.

It's getting hot in herre...

It's gotten so hot, that I've been reduced to naming my posts after old songs. =(

It got up to the high 90's today, and even right now it's about 88.. I really feel like I could melt, especially since the computer isn't near a fan and we don't really use air conditioning.. So I really die when I'm online when it's hot. Although I'm only in a tank and shorts but that doesn't help much.. I have no webcam or else I'd be making money.. loo ^_^

Quiz Time

I was just searching some old threads on Toon Zone and found this fun quiz..

VG Quiz


I am a Light Cycle.

I drive fast, I turn fast, I do everything fast. I even breakfast. I tend to confuse people with my sudden changes of heart. Sometimes I even confuse myself, which tends to cause problems.

(If you were not a Light Cycle you would be an Asteroid.)

Good Anime Deal

Just wanted to tell people about this awesome deal Karl informed me about. Basically go to buyritedvd.com . For this weekend only they are dropping their $100 minimum buy rule.. They have like Gundam DVD's at $5.. There isn't a huge selection because it's mostly a place that buys overstocked or closed out DVDs etc..

Enjoy.. I may buy a few tomorrow. My head hurts and I want to sleep.

Paqland version 3.0?

Well basically I've begun thinking of building a new paqland, which I've intended to do since I took down the old one. I have new ideas and plans so it will be more personable towards me, an emphasis if you will. Also, I've been offered by a friend to get hosting for my forums, so no more invision free.. I can do the regular invision, or phpbb, heck vbulletin if I can get a copy. So that is cool, the offer has really started to motivate my thinking..

So I want to decide what's going to be on my site, and my board.. And then figure out a design.. Should be fun. I've even begun looking at domain names..

A whole new beginning.

Weekly Stop # 11 $_$

Slow week. 7 comics, only 1 of DC. 2 back issues.

Ultimate Fantastic Four #8,9
Elektra the Hand #1
Uncanny X-men #448
Detective Comics #798
Ultimate Spider-Man #65
Avengers # 501

Legacy finally had #8 in stock and I quickly gobbled it out.. I'm trying to cut down on my list.. Right now on the deciding block: Action Comics, Superman, X-Men, Adventures of Superman.. I'm probably going to cut down to 1 Superman comic.. and X-Men is most likely done with for me. I am already getting New, Uncanny, and Ultimate.