Patrick Says

I’ve been wanting to get back into comic books. I’ve had a long on-again, off-again relationship with comic books since I was twelve. I have always loved the superhero stuff and even as an adult, I see almost every superhero movie when they come out.

And comic books are the basis of those movies.

The other thing I love about comic books is the serialization of a story. That ongoing story from month-to-month with a story progression is awesome. I can’t get enough of that. I literally grew up with the X-Men. I went through the Brood, the New Mutants, the X-Tinction Agenda, and so on…I ate it up. So, I’d like to start reading some comic books again.

But what titles?

I don’t think the X-Men are anything like I last saw them. Is Storm even still around? I’m open to suggestions. I’ve been reading a couple good comic book blogs lately (For The Love Of Comics, Face Rockery, Panels Of Awesome to name three) and if those guys read me, feel free to leave a comment with your suggestions. I do know that the first books I’m going after are Buffy Season Eight. Me and The Wife were sad to see Buffy end and this would be a great pickup for both of us.

Beyond that, I’m wide open.

Against my better judgment, it’s a Feast.

Appetizer: What does the color dark green make you think of?
My 1994 Dodge Shadow. It was emerald green. It was the first car I bought new and paid for entirely. I rode that car until it died, then donated it to charity. A couple months later, I saw it driving around the Galleria.

Soup: How many cousins do you have?
I have no idea. My family isn’t very together.

Salad: On a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being highest, how honest are you?
Easily, a 10. But again, I could be totally lying. I’m told that I’m a incredibly good liar. Everyone has a skill. Mine is helping my co-workers out of pickles through deception. Go figure.

Main Course: Name something that is truly free.
You’re kidding yourself if you think anything is truly free.

Dessert: Using the letters in the word SPRING, write a sentence.
Some people’r really into naked gardening.
(Pretend it’s a cockney accent to make that contraction work.)

Happy weekend!

So, in the last issue of Blender magazine, a local icon known as Beatle Bob was featured. I initially reported this two weeks ago here on this blog. Since that time, three different mainstream media outlets have ‘reported’ the same thing, one in print and two from blogs hosted at the mainstream media sites.

Links:
(HA! No link love for them. They didn’t give me any.)

Wow. You guys are really tiptop. If you need any leads for stories you’ll be pushing out in mid-April, stay tuned. You might want to even subscribe and get my updates right to your inbox.

That title is a little misleading. The church hasn’t jumped the shark, but that ridiculous naming convention has. It’s high time we stopped this stupid ‘pushing words together’ crap. I’m sick of it. Take, for example, UnitedHealthcare. The inside deal is they have to tell outside organizations a catchy phrase to remember how to write this: two caps, no gaps. It’s ridiculous. If you need a phrase just to remind people of the name of your company, maybe you should just give it a regular name, I don’t know, maybe United Healthcare. WOW! WHAT A CONCEPT!

Getting back to JeffersonHills Jefferson Hills, what’s the point of pushing them together? I mean, at least with tech companies, it seemed edgy and techie-like. But what church is edgy or techie-like? Really. Just knock it off. You’re Jefferson Hills and deal with it. Jesus never ran around telling people he was JesusChrist, did he?

AND while we’re on the subject, someone tell Flickr and Tumblr to go find the stupid ‘e’ they both seem to have lost. Call me, I’ve got plenty of them lying around here. It’s pretentious and beaten to death by two out of every five new tech startups.