Date: 2010-02-09 23:35 Subject: Random Stupf I'm Having Stupf-Lust For These Days Security: Public Tags: batman, books, clothes, dc comics, digital camera, dvd, flames of war, full frontal nerdity, games, models, random, shoes, stuff i want, toys, video, wargames

*) The Hot Wheels Batwing from the 1989 Batman movie.

*) Scenemaster/Life-Like HO Scale "Coupe Cars", "Pickup Trucks" and "American Autos" so I can equip my "Billy Joe's Boys" militant force for Flames Of War/I Ain't Been Shot Mum. I also want scans of Battlefront's vehicle assembly instruction sheets so I know what "bits" I should buy to properly homologate my machines. And proper rulesbooks for the games of course.

*) The book about early Spitfires I saw at one of the hobby stores I shop at. The owner/manager of the shop is offering me a 30% discount as a local IPMS club member, so the deal looks pretty enticing...and I have the Spitfire project to build for the Reviewer Corps very soon.

*) A pair of normal walking-around shoes and a pair of steel-toe shoes for Tech School.

*) New longjohns.

*) A video camera...Radio Shack put a circular out today and one of the compact ones looked very reasonable. The public TV program Make has plans and instructions for a DIY "steadycam" rig. Very intriguing.

*) DVD four-in-one cases. All the better for consolidating my collection and replacing broken cases.

Date: 2010-01-11 00:28 Subject: The Only Good Thing Out Of Sempai Mike's Phonecall Tonight Security: Public Tags: airplanes, anime, batman, comic books, comics, dc comics, enemy ace, history, tv, war, war comics

( Out Of The Killer Skies! )

Date: 2009-12-22 02:32 Subject: Random Geekishness Security: Public Tags: batman, blogged, comic books, comics, costume, dc comics, dread, friends, games, japan, law, livejournal, music, news, radio, random, rock, star wars, the 1980s, video games

1) An interesting discussion on the Shortpacked! official board has been about the fact that the Diamond Distributor company uses the Batman standard to judge title sales. That is, every title they sell is compared to how well it does against the specific DC comic book titled Batman. One of the readers has suddenly made it his mission to create a comic book and attempt to sell a CentiBatman's worth of copies of it. (As the value of a Batman in copies is somewhat variable there is some luck involved.)

2) News relayed to me by Aaron ps238principal Williams that a British court ruled against Lucasfilm in a copyright case involving the Imperial StormTrooper costume from Star Wars. The judge had declared that the costume was "industrial design" rather than "scuplture" under the legal definitions (the copyright on it had run its course) and become public domain. My immediate thought was on the status of car design--whether the motorcars built before 1995 were suddenly made public domain by this ruling.

3) There are only six or so songs left to vend in my quota for Dread & Terror.

4) All of a sudden somebody is following my LJ via Blogged. I'm supposed to have a Widget working to tell me more about that as part of the LJ, but I haven't figured out how and where to put it up. Welcome, Kikuko...hope you are comfortable here.

5) According to the Japanese site www.saiani.net, the game Armored Core will have an OAV spinoff released sometime in 2010. I'll be watching for this in my usual around-the-blinders fashion.

6) Jon Bon Jovi was on Fresh Air yesterday. He says he absolutely hated the music videos his band made back in the Eighties. I wonder what the boys would have done if they had more creative control back then.

Date: 2008-12-14 21:04 Subject: Nananana-Nah! Batman. Security: Public Tags: batman, comic books, comics, dc comics, film, movies, stuff i want, superheroes

Hey.

This Article On MSN about upcoming comic book movies and yesterday's viewing of The Dark Knight got me to thinking about the possible sequel. I just want to put out where I'd want to see it go. Chances are, this won't happen.

( Cut because of possible spoilers for Dark Knight )

And I'm not all that big a fan of Batman. Go figure.

FP

Date: 2008-11-05 15:14 Subject: Ships Comin' In Security: Public Tags: batman, comic books, dc comics, friends, games, gaming, magazines, pirate, superheroes, toys

Hey.

I take stuff to Paul Francis, I get stuff from Paul Francis. What went out: a set of resin Nazi Zombie figures I forgot I had, which I thought (correctly) that he'd like. What came back with me: a pile of Wizard and ToyFare magazine back issues, which a friend of his dumped on him. And a coffee-table book on the making of Batman The Animated Series--one of my favorite things from the Nineties.

And then I got a package in my mail--the Pirates of the Spanish Main cards I had traded for. Since a family friend was visiting for tea, I assembled a ship to show her what the game is about, and she thought it was very clever.

So between this and other things going on in my world, I'll be pretty busy.

FP

Date: 2008-07-31 13:05 Subject: Had Another Run-In With Dream Pirates Security: Public Tags: batman, dreams, pirate, sleep, super star, superheroes, violence, who am i, writing

One had disguised himself as the George Clooney version of Batman and had taken the lead singer of Aerosmith hostage. I got him to waste all his Batarangs and moved in for a hand-to-hand duel with ballpoint pens. When I made him stab himself with his own pen I woke up.

I'd ask aloud why I can't have normal dreams like everybody else, but I'm not sure what normal dreams are.

FP

Date: 2008-07-24 17:08 Subject: The Stuff I Could Afford As a Kid Security: Public Tags: batman, childhood, comic books, comics, full frontal nerdity, nostalgia, superheroes, the 1970s, toys

I had some of this stuff. I tended towards Batman and my brother was more a Spiderman sort.

Date: 2008-02-13 22:13 Subject: The Current "Backward Compatible"... Security: Public Tags: backward compatible, batman, childhood, comics, computer, full frontal nerdity, links, livejournal, the 1970s, toys, webcomics

...and once again, Aaron speaks truth to geekish:
( Where childhood ends... )

I agree with a lot of that above. I'm attracted a great deal by the prospect of making something my own. I mean, I took a Batman figure (this was before "action figures"--and no, it was not Mego...it was a parachuting figure from REMCO) and removed the stickers and "ears" and repainted it as a character I thought I created. (Well, it was a mix between the Flash and the Fawcett version of Captain Marvel!)

I even went through the tedious process of inventing color schemes for my proposed (and unrealized and abandoned) Warhammer 40,000 Sisters of Battle/Inquisitor/ Knights' Guard army. If the pieces are unpainted, why paint them in a color scheme decided by others when you're perfectly capable of choosing on your own?

I missed out on the emergence of MMO flight sim warfare, and that's probably what I would have done if I had the hardware to support it. I'm sure if I could "do" Second Life or something like that, I'd still "build" planes and/or robots and/or starships.

Maybe it is "playing with dolls" for the 21st Century. Does that make creating a wallpaper for your computer "finger painting"? Does that make the meme idea "playing Post Office"? I for one can use the playtime.

FP

Date: 2006-11-08 20:37 Subject: I'd Quote a Benny Hill Sketch, But I Don't Have It Handy Security: Public Tags: batman, computer, computers, dc comics, flash animation, internet explorer, video

Flash animation.

I like a good share of it. I used to follow MondoMiniShows every week till their inexplicable implosion circa 2001. (I was particularly into "Piki & Poko", "Thugs On Film" and "Heavy Metal Guy".) I used to follow WB's online toon "Gotham Girls", based on the femme characters of Batman. I kinda like the animated "8-Bit Theater", even if the webstrip itself doesn't really grab me. (I showed Mom "Garland vs. The Imps" and she loved it.)

In relatively recent times, I found that I could use IrfanView and ZoomPlayer to watch Flash files, so I've been peeking at stuff I've downloaded. But some files refuse to play, due to one technical fault or another. I used to have the main official Flash/Dreamweaver program, but it was installed on Celery Green--and while I still have its Hard Drive, it's currently inaccessible.

Yeah, if a Flash film's hosted on-line, I still could watch via Internet Explorer's plug-in, but if it isn't, I'm out of luck. And waiting for it to load to my cache is tedious. Gotta be a better way. :(

FP

Date: 2006-06-17 17:17 Subject: Almost Forty...and Still Considered a Boy Wonder Security: Public Tags: batman, comics, dad, dc comics, full frontal nerdity, movies, superheroes, toys, tv

My Dad just got back from his church's annual thrift sale.

He bought me a diecast Batmobile from the 1989 movie.

I know that I'm a dork, but does this prove that HE's a dork?

The answer in our next episode: Same Batblog, same Batchannel!

PS: Happy Birthday, house_of_s!