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New Comic Day and random Strange Foo
Aug. 13th, 2008 08:20 pmCaptain Britain and MI13 #4 (good moments, but kind of disjointed)
Secret Invasion Runaways/Young Avengers (fun but I want more interaction between the teams)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, much later than usual (new guy, the regular one was having a baby or something), but it was a light load and we got done relatively quickly. Plus I have demonstrated that I officially do the work of two men. Since we had 4 skids, 2 dry and 2 frozen, and I do the dry, and 2 guys do the frozen roughly equal size, and we did them both at once, and I finished first. Barely, but still (and I have to put things all over the place instead of just in a freezer). Me manly man! ;)
On the way home, though, well, let's just say it was a bit of an odd day.
I had my first direct experience with bird crap. Luckily, it didn't hit me. Unluckily, it hit my book. Not much, just a little at the bottom, and I had paper around to wipe it clean (and it's an old book), but still a little disconcerting - it must have come in the few inches between the book and my body, since none got on me at all.
Then at outside the used bookstore, I saw a guy either inspecting his tongue in the mirror, or making a weird attempted-erotic come on to his reflection. Then an old man in a pink Ambercrombie and Fitch t-shirt, which struck me as odd for some reason.
But the real weirdness came when I was crossing the bridge. There was a bunch of police cars going by first. Then I noticed they stopped at the bridge. And there was a guy sitting on the curb with a bunch of cops surrounding him. Three bikes, two - maybe they were cop bikes but for some reason my mind said '3 bikes, but only one bicyclist' (the guy at the curb). Then a cop looked over the side of the bridge. And, as I was passing by closer someone asked the guy on the curb if he wanted an ambulance, and another cop replied a few seconds later, "What about the guy that already jumped?" Now, I was a little too short to casually look over the side of the bridge without really being obvious about it, but, yeah, I don't think it's hard to put together at least some of what happened, although since the news doesn't tend to report such things I might never know how it turned out (the bridge was fairly low so it was conceivably survivable). *shrug*
Secret Invasion Runaways/Young Avengers (fun but I want more interaction between the teams)
Full reviews as usual at my comic reviews site for anyone interested.
Work was okay, much later than usual (new guy, the regular one was having a baby or something), but it was a light load and we got done relatively quickly. Plus I have demonstrated that I officially do the work of two men. Since we had 4 skids, 2 dry and 2 frozen, and I do the dry, and 2 guys do the frozen roughly equal size, and we did them both at once, and I finished first. Barely, but still (and I have to put things all over the place instead of just in a freezer). Me manly man! ;)
On the way home, though, well, let's just say it was a bit of an odd day.
I had my first direct experience with bird crap. Luckily, it didn't hit me. Unluckily, it hit my book. Not much, just a little at the bottom, and I had paper around to wipe it clean (and it's an old book), but still a little disconcerting - it must have come in the few inches between the book and my body, since none got on me at all.
Then at outside the used bookstore, I saw a guy either inspecting his tongue in the mirror, or making a weird attempted-erotic come on to his reflection. Then an old man in a pink Ambercrombie and Fitch t-shirt, which struck me as odd for some reason.
But the real weirdness came when I was crossing the bridge. There was a bunch of police cars going by first. Then I noticed they stopped at the bridge. And there was a guy sitting on the curb with a bunch of cops surrounding him. Three bikes, two - maybe they were cop bikes but for some reason my mind said '3 bikes, but only one bicyclist' (the guy at the curb). Then a cop looked over the side of the bridge. And, as I was passing by closer someone asked the guy on the curb if he wanted an ambulance, and another cop replied a few seconds later, "What about the guy that already jumped?" Now, I was a little too short to casually look over the side of the bridge without really being obvious about it, but, yeah, I don't think it's hard to put together at least some of what happened, although since the news doesn't tend to report such things I might never know how it turned out (the bridge was fairly low so it was conceivably survivable). *shrug*
. It was the only one I saw at the store. Which I suspect either means it sold really well, or it wasn't ordered very much. Considering I found it in the regular 'Movies starting with S' section, rather than any display for it (and it came out this week, didn't it), I'm expecting the latter. Oh well, hopefully it'll pick up.
