Current Ramblings
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Damn, that's good tea.
I keep meaning to post about a great number of deep, insightful things, but I've been having a lot of sinus problems lately which means I'm almost always under the influence of psuedoephedrine hydrochloride, which makes my brain feel like it's made of pudding. In addition to being an effective decongestant, it's also a major ingredient of homemade crystal meth. Yay. So I'm going to just post some random things and hope they make sense.
It turns out that Steve-o was downright prophetic when, upon announcing that they had preordered me a red Jazz for my birthday, he suggested that I could differentiate him from the white non-variant one by calling him Zoom-Zoom. It seems that Takara agreed with him. It's almost kinda scary, given that was the nickname we gave him when he was just a somewhat-Jazz-looking guy on Mazda's web site. Though I think he can just be Jazz to me until I get the white one, to fill the gaping hole in my heart. I'm sorta curious about the currently ill-defined clone-son business, though, and I'll be awaiting clarification. A clone would seem more like, I dunno, like a brother. I have found myself with a facination with Transformer brothers verging on fetish lately. I don't know what it is, though I suspect it's just that, first year aside, it's not something that was usually done, so the reemergence of the concept in Dreamwave is one of the few almost truly new things they've added to the mix. And as anybody who has read any of my fanfic knows, I'm a sucker for anything, anything at all, that gives a character a reason to angst, and personal relationships are really good for that. Or maybe it's the twincest.
(Note: I'm just going to call him Jazz instead of Meister, sorry. Trust me, it'll be much more disconcerting when I start regularly referring to the Energon Aerialbots by G1 names, which Graham has already begun glaring at me for. But I think Takara's use of their G1 names gives it a lot of creedence, and Skydive's the only one who doesn't fit really well.)
Oh, and one last thing: I finally finished the last of the three Transformers adult novels today. I don't know if they actually got better toward the end or if I just got used to them enough that I didn't notice them still being quite poor. It was still quite poor by normal literature standards at the end, but it wasn't painful to read anymore, and I didn't actively try to avoid it. I will tell you that the first one is possibly the worst thing of any kind I have read ever, which would put it below an embarassingly long run of Punisher 2099. The only real victory I see in having accomplished reading these - or at the very least laying out part of my increasingly tight budget for them - is that iBooks is following them up with a short story collection featuring people who actually know how to write for Transformers. NEED MORE FURMAN TEXT STORIES...
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