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The Dark Knight Rises

I am EXTREMELY psyched to see the Dark Knight Rises tonight. It's going to be SO AWESOME Here's a trailer!

The Awesome New Cat Leo

I just got back from Boy Scout Camp at Camp Yawgoog in Rhode Island. When I got home I found that my parents had bought my brother a cat for his birthday. We used to have two cats, Frankie and Nelle, but since Nelle died in October we've only been toying with the idea of getting a new cat. the new cat's name is Leo. Leo is an eight month old American Shorthair/Siamese mix. He gets an awesomeness rating of 8.9 out of 10. We've been trying to introduce him to Frankie, but Frankie seems scared for some reason. Here's a picture of me with Leo.

The Flash Comics Anomaly

So, like I told you, I recently got back from my 13-day vacation. I mentioned that I went to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, where my grandparents have a chalet. There I went to S & G Comics and Collectibles, which, in terms of comic book stores, I would give on a scale of 6.8 on a scale of 1 to 10. They didn't have a lot of what I was looking for, meaning Silver and Bronze Age comics. I know that means I shouldn't be biased, and in their favor, they did have loads of later comics from the Modern Age. They also had lots of different figures and busts, which was pretty cool. I purchased The Flash #176 and Adventure Comics #431. I was pretty happy with my purchase. That is, until Saturday. I went to New England Comics in Quincy, which is where I do basically all of my comics shopping. I give them an 8.9 out of 10. I was there to use my gift card that I received from my grandparents for my birthday. There, I bought The Flash #147, #154, and #192. Also in the section where I found those comics, I found The Flash #176. Yup, the same issue that I bought in Tennessee. Except there, it was half the price, ( $20.00 at S & G, $10.00 at New England Comics), and in better condition. I obviously didn't buy a second copy just because of the better price and condition. Too bad. Really too bad. Oh, by the way, my brother just started writing on his new blog and told me to put it on a post on my blog. The URL is arlosrandomworld.wordpress.com.

Just got back from my 13-day vacation at approximately 10:30 PM last night. Here are some pictures of the highlights of it. Sorry for the poor quality, my camera wasn't working very well.

Me at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. By the way, I tried the blue cheese, and it tastes awful.

Me at Yosemite. Man, those were some huge geysers.

By the way, all the photos above were made with a program on my computer. I didn't go to Paris or Yosemite. I really went to Cleveland to see the Pirates play the Indians, then to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to stay at my grandparent's chalet, then to Athens, Georgia, to visit my uncle. here are some pictures of me with a Green Lantern replica power ring that I bought at Bizarro Comics in Athens, and me with an Edgar Allan Poe bobblehead that I bought today at Newbury Comics with the gift card my parents gave to me for my birthday.

The Awesome Bat-Signal

Again, sorry for not being on my blog for so long. But now since I'm out of school for the summer I'll have way more time to post stuff. Like how I got this totally awesome Bat-Signal for my birthday! No, unfortunately, it is not an actual Bat-Signal that comes with a life-sized Commisioner Gordon figure that will turn on this Bat-Signal that will project a symbol that will call to action Gotham's greatest crime-fighter. No, that's not what it is. But it is what I think would be the second-best thing to that. It's a small Bat-Signal, but it actually projects the Batman symbol. I mean, it doesn't work all that great from a distance like the real Bat-Signal would, but it is still extremely awesome. There's a picture that shows it up above.

Nature Can Be Gruesome

Yesterday, I was riding in the car with my parents and brother. Spotting something black in my peripheral vision, I turned around just in time to see a large Common Raven flutter to the ground. It had something small and tan hanging out of its beak. At first glance, I had thought it was a mouse or small rodent of some sort. But when a large Eastern Cottontail rabbit came racing up behind the large black avian, I realized that the bird had caught something more than its usual game. The small lifeless body in its mouth was a baby rabbit. Specifically, the kit of the cottontail chasing after the bird. The raven, realizing that he needed a better place to enjoy his prey, took off, landing several yards away. The rabbit chased him to the point of him fluttering up to the roof of a nearby building, out of the rabbit's reach, ending the conflict. The mother then simply stood staring at the spot where the raven had landed on the building, not moving, almost like a way of mourning the loss of her child. Nature can be gruesome.

OH MY GOD. Boston Comic-Con was more awesomer than I ever could have imagined! I saw Tim Sale, and I bought Amazing Spider-Man #298 and Web of Spider-Man #1. I also saw a business that had Amazing Spider-Man #1 in Good condition AND Amazing Fantasy #15 in Very Fine condition! It was SO COOL.

               

I am so going to Boston Comic-Con this weekend. Tim Sale is going to be there. TIM SALE! He did the art for BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT, BATMAN: DARK VICTORY, BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS, and SPIDER-MAN:BLUE. Awesome.

Check out the Pi that a friend and I made out of dominoes!

How is it possible that this 1953 short film based on The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe was the first cartoon to be X-rated? Yes, this was in Britain, and perhaps they have different rating criteria than we do here in the U.S., but X-rated? X-Rated? I feel like this film noir short could even get a PG rating. Watch it for yourself and see what you think.

Since my friend Andrew is obviously not going to read the message that I put on the site for him, I'll stop trying. Here are some funny pics.

C'mon, Andrew! Read the dang message and admit that you were wrong about Lincoln!

Okay, so the following is a message to my friend Andrew:
When President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. he was shot in the back of the head near his left ear, not in the neck. The following comes directly from Wikipedia:


Booth knew the play by heart, and thus waited for the precise moment when actor Harry Hawk (playing the lead role of the "cousin", Asa Trenchard), would be onstage alone, engaging the audience with what was considered to be the funniest line of the play. Booth hoped to employ the enthusiastic response of the audience to muffle the sound of his gunshot. With the stage to himself, Hawk (Asa) responded to the recently departed Mrs Mountchessington, "Don't know the manners of good society, eh? Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal; you sockdologizing old man-trap!" With hysterical laughter permeating the theatre, Booth opened the door, crept forward and shot the President in the back of the head, behind his left ear.^[24] Lincoln immediately slumped forward in his rocking chair, mortally wounded.


So now you know that I was right. Check the facts if you want, but you'll still find that you owe me $5.

Sorry for not posting for so long. I was sort of caught up with winter break and Pierce Players. Since everyone was obviously hopelessly depressed while I wasn't posting, here are some jokes to cheer everybody up.

Bob was in trouble. He forgot his wedding anniversary. His wife was
really pissed.

She told him "Tomorrow morning, I expect to find a gift in the
driveway that goes from 0 to 200 in 6 seconds AND IT BETTER BE THERE !!"

The next morning he got up early and left for work. When his wife woke
up, she looked out the window and sure enough there was a box
gift-wrapped in the middle of the driveway.

Confused, the wife put on her robe and ran out to the driveway, brought
the box back in the house.

She opened it and found a brand new bathroom scale.

Bob has been missing since Friday.








An airline captain was breaking in a new blonde stewardess. The route they were flying had a layover in another city. Upon their arrival, the captain showed the stewardess the best place for airline personnel to eat, shop and stay overnight.

The next morning, as the pilot was preparing the crew for the day's route, he noticed the new stewardess was missing. He knew which room she was in at the hotel and called her up wondering what happened. She answered the phone, crying, and said she couldn't get out of her room. "You can't get out of your room?" the captain asked, "Why not?"

The stewardess replied: "There are only three doors in here," she sobbed, "one is the bathroom, one is the closet, and one has a sign on it that says 'Do Not Disturb'!"

101 Ways To Annoy People

1. Sing the Batman theme incessantly. 2. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage." 3. Specify that your drive-through order is "to go." 4. Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeep Bip..." 5. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others. 6. Amuse yourself for endless hours by hooking a camcorder to your TV and then pointing it at the screen. < 7. Speak only in a "robot" voice. 8. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly. 9. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub". 10. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 98 copies. 11. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets. 12. Sniffle incessantly. 13. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles. 14. Name your dog "Dog." 15. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up." 16. Reply to everything someone says with "that's what YOU think." 17. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training." 18. Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for "violating your airspace". 19. Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot." 20. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with Lysol. 21. Practice making fax and modem noises. 22. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc:" them to your boss. 23. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up. 24. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance. 25. Erect an elaborate network of ropes in your backyard, and tell the neighbors you are a "spider person." 26. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with the prophesy." 27. Wear a special hip holster for your remote control. 28. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing awkward silences with the impression that you'll be saying more any moment. 29. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears. 30. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room. 31. Give a play-by-play account of a persons every action in a nasal Howard Cosell voice. 32. Holler random numbers while someone is counting. 33. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way." 34. Drum on every available surface. 35. Staple papers in the middle of the page. 36. Ask 1-800 operators for dates. 37. Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI copyright warnings. 38. Sew anti-theft detector strips into peoples backpacks. 39. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places. 40. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page. 41. Set alarms for random times. 42. Order a side of pork rinds with your filet mignon. 43. Instead of Gallo, serve Night Train next Thanksgiving. 44. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise. 45. Honk and wave to strangers. 46. Dress only in clothes colored Hunters Orange. 47. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show. 48. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climactic parts of rental movies. 49. Wear your pants backwards. 50. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register. 51. Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!" 52. ONLY TYPE IN UPPERCASE. 53. only type in lowercase. 54. dont use any punctuation either 55. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets. 56. Pay for your dinner with pennies. 57. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes. 58. Repeat everything someone says, as a question. 59. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone's roadmaps. 60. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination/UFO/ O.J Simpson conspiracy theories. 61. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, its gone now." 62. Light road flares on a birthday cake. 63. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley. 64. Leave tips in Bolivian currency. 65. Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador." 66. At the laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks. 67. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle Bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained. 68. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One." 69. As much as possible, skip rather than walk. 70. Stand over someone's shoulder, mumbling, as they read. 71. Pretend your computer's mouse is a CB radio, and talk to it. 72. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of your chin. When nearly done, announce "no, wait, I messed it up," and repeat. 73. Drive half a block. 74. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination. 75. Ask people what gender they are. 76. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back. 77. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a Southern drawl. 78. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious that you don't want to fall off "in case the big one comes". 79. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers brains, such as "Feliz Navidad", the Archies "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme song. 80. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head. like a parakeet. 81. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day. 82. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September. 83. Change your name to "AaJohn Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being first in the phone book. Claim it's a Hawaiian name, and demand that people pronounce each "a." 84. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down. 85. Chew on pens that you've borrowed. 86. Wear a LOT of cologne. 87. Listen to 33rpm records at 45rpm speed, and claim the faster speed is necessary because of your "superior mental processing." 88. Sing along at the opera. 89. Mow your lawn with scissors. 90. At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhWING-batter!" 91. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend." 92. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn't rhyme. 93. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions, and then scribble their answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles." 94. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture." 95. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times. 96. Never make eye contact. 97. Never break eye contact. 98. Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn. 99. Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, announcing the results. 100. Make appointments for the 31st of September. 101. Invite lots of people to other people's parties.