thebitterguy

To be read later: The Steel Cage's interview with Bret Hart.

I seriously need a new wrestling icon. Anyone got a good one?

One of the interesting things that happened at FanExpo this weekend that did NOT make me want to kill myself or someone else was finding a strange little CD that someone had dropped on the ground.

It turned out to be part of Operation Disque Drop, which is apparently a grass roots effort to promote Alizee, a French pop singer.

The Blogspot site linked to has, oddly enough, bandersnitch’s fanvid, so I think I may need to start asking for royalties.

I was flipping through some of adders posts earlier, and saw this comment craigoxbrow left in his LJ.

I managed to break a Who panelist at Recombination last year. We were talking about relative fandoms, classic Who fans leaning towards Lit SF and new Who fans including a lot of Buffy people, and I extemporised the following theory.

Rose is Angel - the One True Love that ends in tragedy and heartache. Martha is Riley - logically a better match, but the title character isn't ready to commit. A lovestruck Donna, therefore, would be Spike.

I then had to take her to the bar and buy her a drink.

Interesting observation on that.

Other media says you can watch the Watchmen trailer here. Do they speak truth? Or is this an elaborate rickroll?

I cannot open it here at work.

But I think we can honestly say that Andrw Rilstone REALLY didn't like the past weekend's NuHu.

Crap. This is so very awesome looking. Now I have to see if I can afford it.

Oh, Man. They have Meetups for Everything.

The Las Vegas Ninja Meetup:

Meet other local Ninjas and their fans to discuss codes of honor and sword skills. And go on notional non illegal missions.

Notional non-illegal missions. Fuck that. I'm going on notional ninja missions, John Law better stay out of my way!

There are weird things to be seen online among people who talk about comic book characters. Particularly those of us who enjoy the long underwear set.

The strangest thing is the way people refer to the characters. I, personally, refer to them by their codename. That's how the book sells, right? You don't read "Invincible Daniel Rand" or ""James Barnes". You buy Iron Fist and Captain America.

It just strikes me as... strange when I see someone refer to a character by their secret ID instead of as the character. It belies a certain belief of intimacy with the character that is really not possible. Seriously, if John Byrne poops himself when people call Superman "Supes", how do you think he feels when they call him "Clark" or "Kal"?

I really don't care. That was entirely hypothetical.

In any case, yeah, I'm sure I've slipped and referred to a charatcer by non-standard nomenclature on occasion (if I ever refer to Ambusy Bug as "Irwin", shoot me in the face, m'kay?), but as a habit, or an affectation, it just seems weird. And yes, weird compared to reading funnybooks about guys in long johns punching each other.