New look, same old crap

So I changed the template here, but really much else to see here.

Help me pick my new glasses

Help me pick my new glasses

Three options three votes, one each, not much help.

My brush with history

Sort of,

I keep forgetting that on my ninth birthday, Hinckley attempted to assassinate Reagan.

I don't know how I keep forgetting, especially as when I am reminded it all floods back;

I rushed home from school to watch cartoons on WLVI 56 Boston, notorious for the Flintstones and other syndicated cartoons and sitcoms, nothing educational.

But all I saw when I turned on the TV was news on the cartoon channel. What's up with that?

I turned to the other independent station in Boston, and news there too. News everywhere, most disappointing for a nine year old.

So I ended up watching reports of the president's surgery all afternoon, not the day I had planned.

And now 30 years later, I'm more shocked that it's 30 years later than I was when the president was shot.

Where did they go?

c1150 -- Reflective on my birthday? Only with my safety dots.

[Those from NH in the 70s - 80s will note these aren't quite right but I can't find the proper square 4 dot images, but Dr. Y showed me a painting in New Haven that looks like the rest of the sticker after the dots are removed, how's that for cryptic?]

Saints win

The Saints bested the hated Colts. Very happy!


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Location:William Penn

Testing new app

Looks good so far. But I've had bad luck with these types of apps in the past.


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More Caricatures by Neil

More pictures done at the William Penn:

The black and white one is from last month.

The color one is from last night

I like them, he does nice work. Also I'm looking less like George Lucas, so that's good.

c-1150 all cartoony

Even More Movie Reviews No One Cares About

So I watch The Watchmen just now, finally. I'm sure most know it's by the same director that did The 30bei0, which was an amazing panel by panel retelling of that story.

The Watchmen takes a different path, but I think it works. It's already almost 3 hours long, and that's with several subplots excised. Even then, there are a lot of nods and easter eggs from the graphic novel. I could recognize the chapter breaks and there were recreations of specific panels.

I really enjoyed the film, to me it's a nice compromise between being faithful to the source and being a 12 hour miniseries.

Too bad Alan Moore is so opposed to his work being translated to film.

c-1150, licensed comic nerd