Current Ramblings
Monday, December 08, 2003
I keep really wanting to compose and post insightful essays on the state of the fandom and geek culture and culture in general, but then I keep doing it on alt.toys.transformers and it takes all the impetus out of me. I suppose people might just come here to read about how my day went, but I'd certainly like to contribute something deeper. I'll probably wax so political come next year that people will take me off their lists over on LiveJournal, but things haven't kicked into high enough gear yet.
So I suppose, for lack of anything important to contribute to the internet today, I will talk about how yesterday was the Best Day Ever. This is primarily due to three events:
1) I found an issue of Fantastic Four from 1990 that has Death's Head in it. I happened across it as I was pricing a box of comics that I got as a transfer from another store. Sometimes one store'll have more comics than they know what to do with, so they send them to the warehouse so other stores can take them if they want, or they can take them back later. We've been kinda dry lately, so I've been taking them off their hands a lot. I think at some point I had gotten confused and thought the FF story from Incomplete Death's Head was from the FF series, and that's what I thought I found at first, but upon looking at the story I realized it was one I hadn't read yet. Oh, happy day! I'm sorta thinking of making a nice online archive for obscure DH stories like this and the Marvel Comics Presents story. I've also been working on one of the most complete collections of Comics Simon Furman is Vaguely Embarassed to Admit He Wrote, but for his sake I probably won't catalog them. I mean, does anybody really want to read Brute Force? Isn't knowing of its existance enough?
2) I made a grown man run away in fear. After some exchanges between me and a co-worker about a guy looking kinda suspicious, I wandered over at her suggestion to see if he was a known troublemaker - we have a handful of recurring problem people, but nobody too bad currently. So I go over there, and I stare at him incredulously as he zips up a pocket of his coat that's clearly got big angular shapes poking out of it. I went back to tell the shift leader, and as soon as I was out of sight the guy walks to the door, manages to walk to the edge of the sidewalk, and fucking runs as soon as he hits the pavement. He just bolted across the parking lot and around the corner. Actually stopping shoplifters is a tricky business, but hopefully the fact that he was for all intents and purposes caught will keep him away for a while.
3) After all that work-related fun, I got some Energon deluxes. No Starscream, but I kept myself amused letting Hot Shot and Inferno take turns being on top. Awww yeah. Energon is the single most inherently unintentionally dirty line we've had so far. I mean, Armada was bad enough that I was actively worried about the fanfic I wrote sounding like gay erotica (I rewrote one part repeatedly until I got the best phrasing), but Energon still manages to be worse. I like them a lot, whether because of or despite the gay-gay. I'm actually tempted to write a review, which I never do because I'm awful at them because I'm a girl and like toys intuitively and not analytically, but I might save it for Glen if I do.
Pretty soon Graham and I are going over to the Drexel Grandview to see Bubba Ho-Tep. Tell me that doesn't look like the best movie ever.
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