Reading: Buck Godot
Music: Billy Bragg & Wilco
TV/Movie: Connections (with James Burke)
Link o' the Day: Red Rocket Station: An Outpost in the Aether



I'm happy to report that the DC comic The Warlord holds up in entertainment value decades after its initial read. I mentioned a while back that this was a favorite comic of mine when I was a kid, and that I had recently come across a very cheap stack of them. I had been worried that perhaps I wouldn't enjoy them as much as I once had, so I put off reading them for a few weeks. I started on the pile a couple of days ago, rationing two issues a day, and am finding them still quite enjoyable. Yes, I have to make a number of allowances for the deus ex machina style of storytelling popular with DC at the time, but the series was still successful in replicating the adventure pulp feeling one got with such titles as Doc Savage and the Pellicudar and Barsoom series. And a healthy touch of Robert E. Howard. The artwork is pretty dang good, too.

I'm going to have to find some of the more recent appearances--like those within the last 10 or 15 years--to see how the story style has changed.

We're not talking high literature here. Just some good fun with guys swinging swords, enchantresses, monsters, maidens, and the occasional talking cat.

I wonder how Arak, Son of Thunder holds up to reading these days. Herm.




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I should have the medical journal finished today, and I've been downloading all the photos for the new Ray Danton book. Sure are a lot of them!



I posted my review of the final (maybe, maybe not) Futurama movie--Into the Wild Green Yonder last night at Forces of Geek (dot com). Check it out here. In sum, it was a good movie and a great finale...if it really is the final finale. Well... read the review and/or go get the DVD today.

Rumor has it... the character of Bender was originally modelled after Teddy Roosevelt and would have been known for catch phrases like "Bully!" and "Charge!" When voice actor John DiMaggio appeared for the first recording severely hungover following a "raging bender" of a weekend, he re-interpreted the character--on the spot--as the drunken amoral robot portrayed today.

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Today's link goes to an interesting new time-sink...I mean...social networking site. Drop by, sign in, and explore Red Rocket Station: An Outpost in the Aether. From their website:

Red Rocket Station is a place to read about, write about, and talk about speculative fiction. Read SF news and articles from IROSF, Locus, Science Fiction Awards Watch, and more. Communicate with friends and fans via forums, groups, chat, and your personal page. Red Rocket Station is your outpost in the aether, so make yourself comfortable.

Cheers!