How Long can Bully keep this up

365 days with Ben Grimm day 25. How Long can Bully keep this up?

I had a dream

I don't dream much or I don't remember much of them but this one stuck with me so I thought I would share.

I was dead and I was on the island from Lost. I don't exactly remember what was going on but yeah it was important and I was dead and I was on Lost island.

Then I was with one of my oldest friends in a limo because he had won $90 million in the Lottery. I was asking him for $5,000 to help me start a comic book company. But he wouldn't give it to me.

Later, another friend told me, "Of course he wouldn't give you $5,000 you were dead."

Then I woke up and said to myself, Self, that is the last time I eat a big sandwich from Firehouse, watch the season premiere of Lost and then go to bed.

MIcrosoft and irony

So Today Microsoft announced that they are laying off 5,000 people. These are the headlines on my (microsoft provided) hotmail page.

Job Trends for Rough Times Careers to help you sail through a tough economy
13 Companies hiring now (Microsoft is presumbably not among them)
Careers for happy workers


Really, Really someone at Microsoft is laughing their butts off. Or laughing their blues away.

We all make mistakes, We don't all immortalize them

Ok, so as you see from my last post I like the new president. I wish him well and hope that he turns the country around .... BUT there is a bit of craziness creeping into some of my brethren journalists who seem to have given up on objective journalism and have become cheerleaders. I mean, the reason why we all hate Fox News is because they abhor objectivity in favor of supporting THE RIGHT. However, it's hard to criticize them when some journalism overlord approves a headline like this - Obama Raises Hand Lifts Nation.

I think we can all agree that Obama the presidency is a unique moment in American history. I wouldn't want to diminish that and if the headline had been on an opinion piece I would have been with you brother. BUT this headline was on a hard news story.

So you would think that the day after it ran someone, somewhere would have gotten past Obamamania and reexamined ourselves for unbiased reporting. We would have asked hard questions about how we presented information and if we had gone just a tinsy bit too far.

At the very least we wouldn't have put the offending headline on a T-Shirt.

Right? Right?

Barack and roll

Tomorrow some reviews and I hope to finish a short story this week. ...ummm maybe.

In the meantime, Congrats Mr. President

Of good guys and bad

I really liked Appaloosa. It's way better than that horrid remake of 3:10 to Yuma at least. However, it suffers from one of the things that drive me crazy in movies, where the hero has the villian at his mercy and doesn't kill him even though you know that villian is gonna come right back and start more trouble. There are a couple of moments like that in the movie. It's made even worse because Jeremy Irons plays a great villian that you really really want to kill. It gets even worse for me when a judge orders Irons to be hanged and the deputies take him somewhere else to hang him. Which of course (spoiler) gives him a chance to escape. 

I mean, come on, he's got a death sentence. Just shoot him in the head already. 

I complain too much. This is a great movie that I really liked despite that flaw. 7 thumbs up. 

* The previous headline on this post (Just Shoot him Already) was a little bit of problem given that it followed a bunch of pictures of the President. Oh well. Live and Learn.

I haven't read the book but hey it's probably alright.

The Spirit

I haven't seen the movie or read much of the comics. But Kyle Baker makes me want to see it.