tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post5806990142153112949..comments2023-10-11T10:40:48.712-04:00Comments on The Miserable Annals of the Earth: The days are just packedDoc Nebulahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-44134255867587828972007-01-29T18:39:00.000-05:002007-01-29T18:39:00.000-05:00Though I wish I could cut back on the use of thoug...Though I wish I could cut back on the use of <i>though</i>, though. Y'know? :/<br /><br /> I'm a constant source of embarrassment to myself.Mike Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025995292338904959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-42092404995256588202007-01-29T17:04:00.000-05:002007-01-29T17:04:00.000-05:00Some nice LE additions, including Dimitri Bukharin...<i>Some nice LE additions, including Dimitri Bukharin and George Tarleton, neither of which I've picked up -- though I almost traded for George once, deciding on a different piece in the end, though. Dimitri's one I hadn't gone looking for before, though, so I had no idea what his dial was like. Nothing to add to your run-down of each, though.</i><br /><br />I have clix Mike Norton doesn't have! I'm a GOD! <b>WORSHIP ME!!!!!</b>Doc Nebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13052810933464744998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-39904704369465227252007-01-29T16:26:00.000-05:002007-01-29T16:26:00.000-05:00Right!
As you say, I didn't intend any disrespe...Right! <br /><br /> As you say, I didn't intend any disrespect in my "circus" comment. My threshold for what constitutes a circus is likely far, far lower than that for most.<br /><br /> It's merely one of those philosophical points concerning perspective. If Heaven and Hell exist, there are likely many identical rooms in both places as one person's Heaven is another's Hell. If it's right for you, you'll likely know it.Mike Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025995292338904959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-25910937606847103532007-01-29T15:54:00.000-05:002007-01-29T15:54:00.000-05:00We're planning to have a Justice of the Peace, too...We're planning to have a Justice of the Peace, too. Your comments about the private declaration of committment are sweet. Really. Knowing your feelings about socializing, I have no doubt that you'd try to eschew the formalities of a traditional wedding service. <br /><br />I don't think we're pulling a "circus" together (not that I felt you'd inferred as much), but I REALLY need to get caught up with you in email, as there are plans I'd prefer not to make public here for reasons of which we are all INTIMATELY familiar. I know I owe you email anyway and I'll try to have Martha bring you up to speed on the plans in the next day or so...;)SuperWifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02856384425069616224noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-21973783961438476082007-01-29T15:36:00.000-05:002007-01-29T15:36:00.000-05:00Us? Justice of the Peace.
We knew the two witness...Us? Justice of the Peace.<br /><br />We knew the two witnesses but had never met the judge before. We were married a month before her parents knew. Neither of us wanted a big wedding, and by "big wedding" we meant anything more than the bare, legal minimum. The price paid was that we didn't get wedding gifts.<br /><br /> I've beat an engine fire out with an old shirt, run into traffic to save someone from being run over, and I'd like to think I'd be willing to take a bullet for a loved one, but I don't believe I could deal with a spectacle wedding. (Or "circus" as I've generally referred to them.) The dress-up, music and march, the public declarations... no, none of it's for me. Every instant would have been an ordeal, as immature as that might seem. I'll get up in front of an audience and give a speech or a presentation on some subject, but a public declaration of commitment... it feels crass to me, like Reality Television.<br /><br /> A funeral is for the extended family and friends. A wedding is for the two people being married. That's been my perspective.Mike Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025995292338904959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-53287660710185913832007-01-29T12:48:00.000-05:002007-01-29T12:48:00.000-05:00Mike -
You are a crack up!! Well, at least about...Mike -<br /><br />You are a crack up!! Well, at least about the wedding stuff. I'm attempting something akin to the 'Triple Lindy'. Something with some tradition for a first wedding...for him...without being more than is appropriate for a second wedding...for me...while trying to keep it all fun for us AND our guests...all on a shoestring budget.<br /><br />What kind of wedding did you guys have? Of course, now I'm gonna HAVE to do a blogpost. Have to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18829500.post-85871494155827833132007-01-28T18:58:00.000-05:002007-01-28T18:58:00.000-05:00Whew!
If I had to deal with one tenth of the asp...Whew!<br /><br /> If I had to deal with one tenth of the aspects of a traditional wedding -- and by "deal with" I mean "be expected to have any part in at any time, in any setting" -- then I would be single to this day instead of coming up on a 22nd anniversary this mid-year. I'm tempted to customize scripture to say how it would be less painful for me to pass through the eye of a needle... but, then again, I'm notoriously asocial.<br /><br /> Perhaps the words of Bluto Blutarsky are those best-suited to the situation: "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily." <br /><br /> Honestly, I couldn't even define who would be <b>counted</b> as <i>groomsmen</i>, and I don't wanna know! It sounds more to me as if it's part of the vocabulary of the stable and horseman. So it's no surprise that I am with you on the deck of the USS Testosterone as one who has never before read the word's "groom's cake" before. For the moment I'll place it, as a cautionary measure, in the same category as <i>necktie party</i> and <i>prairie oyster</i>.<br /><br /> It's probably one of those Southern things. Be sure to find out there's no obligatory duel to be fought somewhere during all this.<br /><br /> Thanks once more for the kind words on my hastily knocked-out, timekiller look at the upcoming Supergirl REV.<br /> <br /> Some nice LE additions, including Dimitri Bukharin and George Tarleton, neither of which I've picked up -- though I almost traded for George once, deciding on a different piece in the end, though. Dimitri's one I hadn't gone looking for before, though, so I had no idea what his dial was like. Nothing to add to your run-down of each, though.<br /><br /> Len Snart I picked up at last year's Wizard World, my primary interest in him at the time being the Leadership.<br /><br /> Good luck with the Starhawk replacement -- and good luck to all of us (Wizkids included) in having the mismatched sculpt and base problems of Supernova not follow us into Origin, Avengers, etc.<br /><br /> Eternals has been set aside in favor of a trade -- possibly a hardcover edition, depending on whether or not the order price through Westfield drops it below my 10 cents/page criteria -- so I have a couple months before I'll be taking that in. I knew that they would be involving Civil War matters before the end of the series (we were told as much at the Marvel panel last year) but as the rest of Marvel's "editorial" staff didn't want to step on Gaiman's toes they pointedly kept all things Eternals out of the rest of the crossover event.<br /><br /> <b><i>52</b></i> 38 (Ha! That's Instant Geek, isn't it?) and <b><i>Checkmate</b></i> 10 were among the comics received and read this weekend. <br /><br /> At the moment I don't have anything immediately coming to mind to add to your comments on them aside from not being sure whether or not to be irritated or not with the Morrison-fueled path that's come up for Animal Man. Seemingly stranding him out in space, his Earthbound comrades carrying with him the message that he's dead, and the aliens responsible for his powers reappearing, apparently responsible for what has and is about to happen to him.<br /><br /> I may yet get to write up something about those and the other comics that hit this weekend before the weekend's out, as I'd planned. I have a few other tasks to do before I can start to settle into that weekend endgame mode, though.<br /><br /> My condolences on the task of coming up with a crowd-agreed movie selection, especially given the gender imbalance and the sprawl of ages. (Last part sounds like a hymn, doesn't it?)<br /><br /> Even as someone who made the terrible mistake of seeing <b>Epic Movie</b> this weekend I can't easily see that I would have felt so much better about <b>Dream Girls</b>. Okay, I probably would have. At least in <b>Dream Girls</b> they attempted to apply talent to it and shoot for something higher than unmoderated pre-adolescents in the script. <br /><br /> (Side note: It's interesting how all of the pre-Oscar hype appears to have backfired on it, though, isn't it? No nominations for it for Best Picture, Director or Leading Actor/Actress. As a side-sidenote I'm wondering if Peter O'Toole's nomination for Best Actor in a leading role in <b>Venus</b> presages the academy's inclination to finally give him the award before he drops out of filmmaking. Eight nominations over 45 years and the closest he's come was an honorary award in 2002.)<br /><br /> <b>Dream Girls</b> does look like one I will enjoy when I'm in the right mood and can catch it on the small screen some months from now.Mike Nortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13025995292338904959noreply@blogger.com