Tuesday morning miscellany

[sigma7]

-- I finally figured out where GDBM is going next. And it's closer to canon than you might expect. (Canon? In my Goddamn Batman? It's more likely than you think. Hint: Paul Dini.)

-- Got one of my Spectre covers hotlinked from a hilariously strange post to scans_daily, so I get notices early in the morning when my 20 MB bandwidth cap gets exceeded. This is how the other half lives, I see. I take back my picspam hotlinking arguments. (No, I haven't forgotten picspam, either.) Just seems counter-productive to hotlink to a site that's only going to be up five hours a day because of the traffic. Hrm. (Then again, the tech support page says that a tool for measuring quota use says they "will build an interface to provide this information" and I'm pretty sure that statement is ten years old now. No hurry, kids. At least I've actually accomplished everything I set out to do ten years ago. Just...slowly.)

-- Via Romenesko: Reporters covering Sarah Palin in Clearwater were greeted with taunts by a crowd of about 3,000, reports Dana Milbank. When Palin blamed Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media," her supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks, shouting abuse and hurling obscenities. Milbank says one supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

-- Speaking of, yes, there's a debate tonight, but it's a pseudo-"town-hall" format, questions submitted in advance, no cross-questioning, so it's a simultaneous stump-speech. Actually, they won't be talking simultaneously, though that would be more entertaining. Sure as hell not watching it -- might try to find a good liveblog so I don't have to. (I will say MightyGodKing's take on the last two debates has been consistently the most entertaining aspect of the election cycle thus far, with Tina Fey a distant second.)

-- Via rosefox8: I wear my pentical (its just the way it make scene to spell it to me) all the time! and i was playing with it in class and this girl like "your a witch" I said "get your facts right I not!" she said"I not dumb i know what that star means" I said "yep it only has one meaning and i am a witch and you should behead me!" She said "so your a witch" me " No i am a Celt there is a different get it right before you judge" The sad thing is I've had to grade less coherent work than this.

-- The Leonidas icon is moving in time to Todd Rundgren's "Bang the Drum."

-- Via anw: If you've spent the last few weeks in a funk brought on by a cataclysmic economy, political insipidy, pigskin agony (goddammit, Norv!) or just the general intense fail endemic to the human race, maybe you need a pick-me-up. Read this, then this. Sometimes you just have to delight in the way the world works.

Comments

[redmonster.livejournal.com]

Yep, I saw the Milbank article earlier. Charming, isn't it?

Meanwhile, if MGK's take is MORE entertaining than Tina Fey's, I have GOT to check them out.

[jateke.livejournal.com]

Those anw entries are tearing me up. I can't help but think of that as direct divine intervention. Thank you for a great start to my morning.

[mindset]

Following the s_d poster back to his journal, the links therein suggest he's a growing/shrinking fetishist. (The wikipedia article "macrophilia" only talks about the typical giantess sexual fetish, but his image site seems to insist on it being non-sexual. Just extremely creepy.) Isn't it nice to know he's found happiness in giant Spectre/tiny Batman?

*stars humming "Hold me closer, tiny Batman", smacks forehead until it stops*

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

the typical giantess sexual fetish

I think our mileages for "typical" may vary, but I see what you did there.

Isn't it nice to know he's found happiness in giant Spectre/tiny Batman?

I adore the conversations we have together.

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

At least the Chargers have a chance of competing for the division. I briefly thought about switching allegiances to the Saints last night (they have three people I already have attachment to: Drew Brees, Martin Grammatica, and Scott Fujita) until they choked it out.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

The Chefs and the Bolts are being coached with exactly the same mindset -- play away from your strengths. It's just that KC's strengths are Tony Gonzales and Dustin Colquitt. I guess they're playing toward Colquitt's strength, so they're actually ahead of San Diego. The Chargers have moar weapons, but damned if Norv knows how to use them. Or a clipboard. Man's in serious need of a restraining order.

I didn't watch much of MNF -- Kornheiser, for God's sake, and have they finally stopped having guests in the booth? -- but I did see Gramatica lining up for the 53-yarder and loudly proclaimed that it would be an exercise in futility given his recent gaks. And then he drills it straight on through and nobody's more stunned than I am. Huh.

The Saints should be doing much better than they are right now -- they're the anti-Broncos, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. They're in my top five sentimental picks at the moment.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Check out the top cake at http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/.
How come we don't get cakes with GDBM?

[solid-ss.livejournal.com]

i adore it too

[solid-ss.livejournal.com]

yes macrophilia is focusing on humiliation by giants,like when spectre humiliated batman.