Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….
- Casa Bonita Owner Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy – Denver News Story – KMGH Denver – I can’t bring myself to hope that CB shuts down … but perhaps the next owner will actually bring edible food to the fray …
- The Boys of War – NYTimes.com – Red badges of courage.
- US signs ACTA – (Sigh.)
- Conservative Economist: ‘Regulatory Uncertainty Is A Canard Invented By Republicans’ – Don’t get in the way of my talking points with your “facts”!
- What is Secularism? Secularism is for everyone. – I am not a “Nontheist,” but I am fully behind Constitutional Secularism. Because the theism most likely to wangle its way to the top of the religious heap at the moment is not an ideology I want the government endorsing, let alone enforcing.
- Dumb Alabama Immigration Law Working So Well Its Crops Are Rotting – Unfortunately, the intent from too many of the interests behind the Right is to make such backbreaking labor attractive (through lack of anything else) to the American labor pool.
- I Never Expected a Bridge Demolition Would Look Like This [Video] – As someone who works for a company that does this, it’s not surprising, but it’s still very cool.
- Gallery of Hildebrandt illustrations – I fell in love with the Brothers Hildebrandt (as did so many others) from their iconic Lord of the Rings calendars. Even though I didn’t care for a number of their interpretations (e.g., Rivendell), others were Just How I Pictured It (at least until the movies). Cool stuff here.
- “Beware The Batman” CGI Animated Series Coming For 2013, “DC Nation” Updates – That’s … interesting.
- Colorado energy projects move along with $900 million in stimulus – The Denver Post – It seems to me that federal grants/loans are particularly suited for the higher risk sorts of things that businesses won’t want to do.
- But I don’t even like my band. | So I had a small chat with Scott Lobdell tonight. – If Lobdell’s as upset over how his 1st issue was interpreted as he sounds here, then it was a massive fail on his part (plus some massively bad choices in the art by Kenneth Rocafort).
- Disney and Pixar Announce Slate of Four New 3-D Re-releases into Movie Theaters | The Disney Blog – I had (and have) no interest in 3Difying of Disney’s traditional animation. I’d think practically any of the Pixar releases, though, would be kind of cool.
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9. Batman and Katana? I wish they had offered their rationale for this.
Professor Pyg? Not a good choice for me. I dislike that character intensely (and not in the way you’re supposed to dislike a villain). Minor villains are OK, but there’s a reason they remain minor: they’re not all that interesting.
I didn’t care for the artwork in that image. Too distorted and angular for my tastes. That alone might make it difficult for me to watch the series.
Super Best Friends Forever? I suspect that I am not in the target audience for that one. Doom Patrol could be good. Or it could be execrable. Let’s hope for “good.”
11. Nice to hear that I had misunderstood Kory’s attitude. It definitely did not come across as sarcastic. I thought she really did not remember her years with the Teen Titans, arguably her most crucial time on Earth.
Scott Lobdell is a very cool guy. At ECCC, he was offering “free writer sketches.” I got one of Cyclops, as all three of us have the first name. I stopped by the next day and he was talking to somebody about the FF and the Torch’s death. I opined that Johnny was not really dead, and Scott whipped out a pen and drew this sketch, making the death Really Truly Official (Maybe).
9. I’m hoping it’s to add a female contingent. Of course, there are a variety of female sidekicks who’d work better than Katana.
Professor Pyg doesn’t look like a good choice. Nor do I like the art shown.
11. The proof of the pudding will be in the next few issues.