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Jeffrey Combs was in an episode of The Flash (the 1990-91 live-action show). He played a crime boss named Jimmy Swain in the Captain Cold episode.

Considering the series is most known for Mark Hamill's multi-episode portrayal of the Trickster, I now have a dead-easy way to jump from Star Trek to Star Wars in a game of six degrees.

So, we went to our FLCS today -- in its role as FLGS, since buying a newly arrived gamebook was the goal -- and I hit the 25¢ rack and scored a 4-issue run of Flash from the middle of Wally becoming a responsible human being. (i.e. Piper is working on him, but Linda is not yet on the scene.) There is Grodd! And Vixen! And Rex the Wonder Dog (I'm not kidding)! And Chunk! And Ralph Dibny!

I have yet to decide which delights me more: Ralph getting superspeed piggyback rides from Barry, or Piper getting them from Wally. Ralph so clearly enjoys them; he tends to yell "WOOOOO!" and extend his neck ahead. Piper has blousy polkdot shirts and always has to hang onto his hat. I think, ultimately, I'm just very amused that piggyback rides are a speedster thing. I mean, I don't know about Jay (his hat might pose problems) or the Quick clan, and Bart's been pretty scrawny compared to anyone he might carry for much of his existance, but even John Fox gave Piper piggyback rides. Maybe it's a redhaired friend thing? (Maybe I could score one!)

I also picked up an issue of the ST:TNG comic because it featured Ms. John Sheppard Sonya Gomez, who's growing on me more and more as I accumulate Starfleet Corps of Engineers books. She's got Ro Laren's hairdo and her skin is an alarming greyish colour, but I will rea dit anyway as it was only 25¢.

On the way home, there was a bake sale. :3 I bought cupcakes and cookies. :3

And window shopping at ThinkGeek.com today has me making grabby hands all through the What's New section. Some highlights:
I would be dangerously creative with this stuff.
Had this existed when I was a child, I might have missed hours of drawing She-Ra's costume on my friends in chalk, but I like it anyway!
Something for Brainiac 5 -- or from him? Hmm...
There was even a t-shirt that mentioned telnet! (But as it was a LotR thing, I'm not that interested.)

Time for tea and cupcakes~ :9

Caterpillar of HAAAAAAAATE! *scootch. scootch. scootch.*

Possessing a rare combination of wisdom and humility, while serenely dominating your environment you selflessly use your powers to care for others.

Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

I got Galadriel. Galadriel.

LORD OF THE RINGS IS NOT SCIENCE FICTION.

YAY OMG! So I went to my FLCS and I bought HeroClix again.

Because he had all five of the original Teen Titans!

And Titans Hunt Joey!

And three of the Royal Flush gang!

That's right, I bought home Speedy, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, Robin and Kid Flash, Ten, Jack and Ace (Jack and Ten are one fig, riding a giant card), and (secretly evil clone) Jericho! I now have enough folks to make dioramas!

But I don't have space. ;~;

(I have also watched clips from every single episode of X-Men: Evolution. And I got called in to work on my day off again. ...These two things are unrelated.)

Chances are, you've never heard of CLUTCH. It's a fairly obscure Canadian film made in 1998. Sure, it won a couple of awards. You've still probably never heard of it.

Unless, like me, you know that the first name showing in the opening credits was "DAVID HEWLETT".

And that's probably why you watched it.

(Some people who comment on IMDb.com apparently watched it because ExpressVu was promoting how Tom Green was in it, and were tipped into blackest angst when he was in, like, a minute of screentime. As an unnamed character. Which I thought was great, because I can't stand him.)

But there was a wonderful surprise for me, because you see, there are basically 4 protagonists, in two pairs, one of whom are together throughout the film, and one of whom actually seem to become a couple. David Hewlett is in one of these, and GORDON MICHAEL WOOLVETT is in the other.

:D :D :D :D

And they're roommates. (DH and GMW.)

( Spoilers about plot and further casting commentary under here ) Oh!

Filmmakers seem to have a contractual obligation to make David Hewlett, in whatever he's in, be:
a. wet
b. naked
c. wet and naked
d. bloody

This is an "a" and "d". He's wearing a suit and long coat throughout, even when riding a tiny bicycle up a hill. But he washes his face because he is, of course, bleeding, and we see this from below. It's a neat angle.

His uncanny ability to down an entire glass of something without stopping to breathe or gagging was, alas, not employed in this film.

Finally, some decent backstory on John!

( the rest is spoilers and much rambling )

This would be much easier if I could figure out my roommate's scanner. Alas.

ATTENTION! This post now contains an actual SCAN below the cut! :D :D :D

( Mild SPOILERS for X-Men: First Class #5 -- the boys on comics (they're so mean!) )

So, I've been reading articles at Suicide Girls (which is an outgrowth of my earlier activity today: reading online resources for Sons of Ether) and saw this awesome and totally true quote from Wil Wheaton:

"Hollywood faces its greatest challenge in the history of adapting comic books to movies with Watchmen. Many executives won’t understand what it’s about. Neither will their young, allegedly hip assistants they hired out of Harvard Business School.

If Hollywood really wants to do this right, and really doesn’t want to fuck it up, my advice is to listen to the focus group at Comic-Con. I mean, really listen, because if Hollywood fucks up Watchmen, there’s going to be a nerd riot so terrifying, it will be like a thousand studio executives cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

It's from this excellent article.

Another cool article by Wil is this discussion of communication and it's ramifications on... a lot of things. I also had fun reading this, this, and this. (Diamonds and tectonic plates, holes in the universe, and an interesting theory about people in the future and us that I don't quite understand at the moment. It's late. I'm kinda tired.)

And here you probably thought SuicideGirls.com was nothin' but sexy girls. It also has science and geekery! :D

And while geeks appreciate pictures of girls on the net, girls appreciate pictures of geeks on desks, on the net. Or a table, in Steve's case, there. ;3

peaseblossom has managed to put her finger on something that bothered me about Changeling: the Lost so succinctly that I am quoting it in it's entirety here.

Okay, I haven't read the whole book (though I've read more than half), but I've flipped through all of it. In fact, after a while, I frantically searched through it for the warning that says: This is not happy fun Changeling. This game is about abuse, slavery, and more abuse. Don't read this book if such things might trigger memories of experiences you'd rather forget. Don't play this game unless you have discussed said triggers with the storyteller and the other players and you trust them to respect your boundaries.

I didn't find it.

I find that a bit irresponsible. There's lots of interesting story potential in how we get beyond the unfortunate parts of our past, or how we don't; of how tragedy alters our lives so much we hardly recognize ourselves or the world around us. I just think that when a game gives storytellers license to rape and torture the PCs, it's a bad idea not to also give them some tools to deal with potentially traumatic subjects in a way that keeps everyone at the table safe.


Me again. I should point out that a previous White Wolf game, Kindred of the East, did have such a warning. Why they neglected to put one in C:tL I can't imagine, given that rape and terrible abuses are freely mentioned in the character background examples.

So, since I was awake and not doing anything other than look for things to keep me awake because I'm tryring to flip my schedule for work and sinfonica's cell phone hates me, I kept an eye on the 4DVENTURE launch countdown on WoTC's website.

It went 5..4..3..2..1..0..Now! and the entire WoTC website crashed.

Gosh.

We were talking about maniacal laughter (because I was watching Spiderman and His Amazing Friends), and Kiffie spake thusly, and lo it brought the lulz:

"That's why Loki keeps tea and honey. Just in case of a freak laughing accident."

XD

Okay, so, David Hewlett has a twitter thing and he updates it to make it easier for his fans to stalk him. (Yes, deliberately. He stalks back; I feel it's fair.) This is a great way to find out little tidbits about his movie, A Dog's Breakfast, working on Stargate: Atlantis, what's up with his fiancée, what the weather's like in Vancouver, who might be at what convention, and also he tells people when he's exercising and dieting, which I understand is helping some of his fans stick to their dieting/exercising thing of choice. Right on.

He also talks about his co-workers. Screencap:





That is just adorable on so many levels.

THESE SHIRTS ARE TERRIFIC!!!! XD

Swiped from taichara

This icon used because, had I cropped it differently, you'd be able to see I'm holding a SNES controller. Yes, that is a drawing of me. :3

( Clicky for the meme )