Click the above image to load a 1920×1200 full size wallpaper image. This is my dog Luke captured beautifully by Kristan Robertson (my daughter). She was experimenting with her brand new DSLR. She should be commenting in here shortly to add the details on the camera model and lens info for you camera tech types.
Posted in wallpaper | Tags: dogs, DSLR, Kristan Robertson, photography, wallpaper
So I’m sick now. Of course this is how it happens. Blow ALL your “use ‘em anyway you want sick-days” AND THEN really get sick. I’ll have to miss work tomorrow and go the Doc. I have a fever, chills & a nasty cough. Right at this moment I feel pretty good though. The symptoms come and go.
So last night I had a weird fever-induced dream. I dreamed Kristy Swanson was trying to seduce me! LOL. She follows me (and my Wife) to some desolate country home where we are having some family get-together with my Wife’s relatives. Kristy has some leering Agent/Producer type following her around the whole time. At some point she pops out from behind a shower curtain in a bathroom. Then it’s revealed that her entire upper-torso is covered with garish tattoos! Most bizarre! I’m a happily married hobbit and I aint even really into blondes much. I blame it on the fever. Anyway when not shivering under blankets and dreaming about starlets of yesteryear I have done some web-surfing and discovered a couple of gems I can share with the world:
A Softer World – cool and quirky web-comic told in a three-panel photo arrangement. Really good stuff. Some of it seems pointless, some of it is sad & some of it is funny. It will ALL make you think. Good stuff.
The Runaways – official web-site for the pioneering all-girl hard-rock group that featured a VERY young Joan Jett and Lita Ford. This site also links to the official site for the upcoming movie which is here:
The Runaways Official Movie Site
Rich Johnston has the new Red Band Trailer for Kick-Ass linked up here:
Bleeding Cool -Kick-Ass Trailer
Heidi MacDonald’s comicbook news Blog “The Beat” has moved from it’s former home at Publisher’s Weekly to it’s own domain:
Posted in Angst, Comics, Geekery, Movies, Music | Tags: comicbook, fever, Heidi MacDonald, Joan Jett, Kick-Ass, Kristy Swanson, Rock, Runaways, web-comics, weird dream
Steve Rogers -we really NEED ya man -in the Marvel Universe AND in the real one!
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The cap image was scanned from a 1986 Marvel comics house ad for their subscription service. I’m fairly certain the art is by Buscema -probably Sal but possibly John. If you know for sure which is it is please let me know. The background flag image I found on Google Image Search and then heavily Photoshop filtered it.
Posted in Comics, Geekery, wallpaper | Tags: 1920x1200, Marvel, Marvel Comics, Steve Rogers, wallpaper
I REALLY want to like Sarah Palin. Actually I DO like her. But at the same time I’m embarrassed by her and FOR HER. As a conservative leaning Libertarian I’m embarrassed by her awkward and down right terrible grammar. What’s the deal with “ALSO & TOO” ? REALLY????? 
We need to say both “ALSO and TOO”??? When she first came on the scene I felt sorry for her. She seemed kind of dumped out there in front of the cameras with little to no prep and the attacks from the left were vicious and uncalled for. So this is just really unfortunate that Fox News decided to make her a “pundit”. This is NOT HELPING us. The more the poor woman speaks the less intelligent she appears and by association the less intelligent WE appear. I do NOT mean this as an attack -I really don’t. This is just a little heart-felt advice from your friendly neighborhood WebHobbit. I just wish she would stop talking. That really sums it up for me. Sarah -if you see a camera -STOP TALKING. Don’t give interviews and stop trying to be a “Pundit”. I don’t know what more to say. I feel kind of scummy for even posting this.
Posted in Angst, Politics, TV | Tags: Conservative, Sarah Palin
Google said NO Tuesday to filtering searches on the Chinese version of the website. Their full statement here:
Posted in Geekery, Politics | Tags: Censorship, China, Google, Tiananmen Square
