SOPA on a Rope – Updated 1.27.12
I didn’t jump on the bandwagon. I didn’t rant about SOPA or PIPA. I didn’t black out my own website in protest. Who reads this garbage anyway?
My point? Online do one thing and one thing only: absolute dick. (J, you were right — I just like the sound of it)
But enough about that. I’m really not interested in being preachy today. What’s the use when the congregation is deaf and dumb?
The voices… Continue reading
My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student – Updated
I know you’ve seen them — those stick figure family decals that everyone is putting on their cars these days? Yeah. I hate’em. So I decided to create one of my own in an effort to slay the trend.
Training Journal 2011-6 (Updated 12.15.11)
Training has become very cerebral lately…and yes, sporadic again. Not to say that I haven’t devoted a fair amount of brain power to contemplating Ninjutsu in the past. It’s a revolution. It always comes back around. I find myself thinking more about what I’m doing and why and how to do it more efficiently.
Work harder, not smarter. That’s what they say.
I had managed to attend several classes consecutively before being forced to take the month… Continue reading
To Your Good Health…
When I first started this website/blog, I made a promise to myself that I would never sell advertising space. My primary goal was, and still is, to use this website to present and promote my writing. With that in mind, you’re probably wondering why there are advertisements for V2 electronic cigarettes on the sidebar now.
Things change. Sue me.
I’ve been smoking for more than 20 years. I’ve tried to quit dozens of times and… Continue reading
Day of the Ninja, 2011
HAPPY NINJA DAY!
2011
(be festive, slay a pirate)
BRAINS! Brains…brains?
For the most part, I’ve enjoyed The Walking Dead, but the hype is killing it for me. The legions of slobbering, brainless, this-show-can-do-no-wrong fans are the real zombies. It’s no wonder they dream of zombie apocalypses. They’d survive only because they so obviously lack the main course on the zombie menu. Maybe AMC should make a show about them. Ehh, nevermind. They already have a show afterward where people talk about what didn’t just happen… Continue reading
Memories
“WTF? Luke Skywalker is the Joker?”
That was my reaction when the credits rolled on Batman: Mask of Phantasm. I had no idea. I’d never even suspected. Never put two and two together. Never before realized that it was Hamill’s voice behind the madman in the animated incarnation of Batman’s adventures prior to that theatrical release. That was 1993.
Tell me Bats. What are you really scared of? Failing to save this cesspool of a city? Not… Continue reading
Training Journal 2011-5
Yeah, so there’s been some inconsistency in my Training Journal entries as of late. As the adage goes, “Never go back the same way you came.” Vary your routine. Always keep them guessing. You can’t get much more ninja than that.
I’ve also been sick recently. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet learned any ninja healing tricks. Couple that with the fact that I have a child with special needs and, well, things tend to get a… Continue reading
One Bad Apple…
Seriously?
I mean, really?
I’m not one to get wrapped up in the hype-machine that has come to be known as Apple, and I don’t rush out and buy every frakking product they make just because it has their logo on it. Incidentally, I prefer PC when it comes to daily computing and Macbooks are just too damned expensive. However, I do own and have enjoyed an iPhone for some time now. Currently I’m sporting the 3GS.… Continue reading
Grumpy Old Superheroes (Review: JLA #1 2011)
SPOILER ZONE. THE SPOILER ZONE IS FOR THE DIVULGENCE OF PLOT DETAILS ONLY. THERE IS NO DETAIL PROTECTION IN THE SPOILER ZONE. VIOLATORS WILL BE TOWED AT THEIR OWN EXPENSE.
JLA #1 opens in Gotham with Batman. He’s chasing some kind of monster thing. The police are chasing them both. To “bring them both down” is the order given.
Green Lantern shows up and saves Batman from a rain of gunfire. He remarks about the fact that Batman is… Continue reading
