Can I Get a Hell Yeah?
Posted on 02.02.08 by Widge @ 5:38 am

I can't stop listening to "Queen B" from Puscifer's V is for Vagina album. I have no idea why. It's just great music to work by, I guess.

This music video is pretty…well, it's what you would expect from Maynard, I think.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Available from Amazon.

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A Mighty Fortress is Their God
Posted on 01.23.08 by Widge @ 8:11 pm

Westboro Baptist Church is going to picket Heath Ledger's funeral.

He's dead, assholes. Why not see to the living, like that guy Jesus would have wanted you to do? Jesus. You might have heard of the guy.

And folks, remember, if you don't believe in their God, he will show his unending love for you by boiling you in hell for all eternity.

I much prefer this.

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Test Post
Posted on 01.22.08 by Widge @ 1:40 am

Just ignore this.

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Okay, I Grew the Beard.
Posted on 01.21.08 by Widge @ 3:56 am

Now where's the rest, you bastards?

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My First Comic?
Posted on 01.12.08 by Widge @ 2:11 pm

You know, Dan Goodsell posted this over on his website–his first comic book.

And I thought for some time that I remembered my first comic. It was in a drugstore, back when they still had comics–remember "Hey Kids, Comics!" Remember those wire metal racks? When you would flip towards the back to find the ones that weren't fucked up and creased by people flipping towards the back to find the ones that weren't fucked up and creased? Or were you someone like me who was a considerate member of the comics buying community and very cautiously flipped back?

Anyway, it was a Justice League of America comic. I remember it was one of those annual crossovers with the Justice Society, and I thought the cover was one of those classic setups where one group of characters was rushing in from left and the other was rushing in from right with the inevitable clash in the middle something that was supposedly inside the pages.

What I remember most about it, though, is reading it and recognizing the Justice League characters from the SuperFriends cartoon that I watched religiously (even the shit episodes, and by me saying that probably three or four jumped into your mind). But the Justice Society–the idea that there was a whole separate world out there where the heroes were older (not just older–Batman was dead?!?) and had fought during World War II? Holy crap! From a continuity standpoint I had no clue what was happening, but from a conceptual standpoint I was addicted. Thus, I was introduced to comics and advanced multi-dimensional physics in one sitting.

Oh sure, I'm positive I had read some Harvey comics or Disney comics or something when I was younger–but this–this was something else. This was nitroglycerin, baby. And it started me on my love of the spandex genre and comics in general.

So I decided to try and track down my first comic. Using this cover gallery. With disappointing results.

First, it's hard to distinguish, this far removed from when I was collecting comics on the neurotic level, between comics I bought from the racks and comics I bought later when I was a Collector. Like for example, the 100-page giants–I owned a bunch of those, but I'm certain I bought them later. I'm almost positive, for example, I owned #189 and #190 (the Starro two-parter). But when I acquired them, I have no idea. #191 I don't remember the cover for, but #192 (the start of the Red Tornado origin story) I know I bought from the rack. And then ongoing from there, since I read the Justice Society bit, going back into the Old West and then on through and past the great extra-sized #200.

So what JLA book did I pick up first since I can't find a cover that fits what I knew in my mind? Well, my memory is terrible, especially when you go back that far in my life. Is it possible that I crafted some kind of amalgam ur-comic in my head? Is it possible that #192 was my first comic and I've just mixed up the contents with another comic? That was 1981. I was 8. That sounds about right. I do remember that the copy of #192 in my collection was really shredded. So that makes sense.

But still, I don't know that I'll ever remember for sure. So. There you have it.

What was your first comic? Can you sort out which one it was?

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The Polar Express
Posted on 12.28.07 by Widge @ 10:55 am

A lot of people seem to appreciate this film.

Me, I can't stop screaming at the screen, "Kid! Get off the train! It's full of hollow-eyed zombies–what, are you blind?"

Is it just me?

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Merry Xmas
Posted on 12.25.07 by Widge @ 5:31 am

From all of us heathens to all of you heathens.

Direct link for the feedreaders.

Found via VideoSift.

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Wish Your Male Part Was Larger
Posted on 12.06.07 by Widge @ 3:49 am

This spam just in…

Subject Line: "Wish your male part was larger"

Body of the e-mail: "Grinning Ear to Ear , Does it satisfy her? ."

Well, let's see. If my male part was grinning ear to ear that would imply that it had a mouth and a pair of ears and it would probably make her scream and scream and scream. In a terrified fashion, as opposed to a "ooh baby baby" fashion.

But if she was into that sort of thing then I guess it would satisfy her. But considering that "that sort of thing" would be a scary anthropomorphic schlong, then I don't know many women who would be into it. So.

As you were.

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There Aren't Words For What a Great Idea…
Posted on 11.30.07 by Widge @ 1:15 am

…this is.

Found via Neatorama.

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If Your Life Had a Face
Posted on 11.14.07 by Widge @ 11:51 pm

This panel makes me very happy.

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