I remember a time where I would cut out Sunday comic strips and glue them together in a binder full of paper, just so that I could keep copies of them. I mainly stuck to Garfield, Calvin and Hobbes and Foxtrot, my favourites at the time. Never did I consider keeping comics like For Better or Worse because I didn’t find their parental and family-oriented stories funny.
BUT, apparently we’ll all get another crack at it because the women who created and writes for it has decided to revamp the dying comic. {link}
The headline is completely misleading as she’s not actually say goodbye to anything. Maybe she’s saying goodbye and we’re saying hello… hello, hello.
Either way, I’m still not interested and see this whole scheme as a lost cause.
When I was explaining the Crossfire reference to my editor, the same fellow intern brought this to our attention.
Why Hasbro, why? Not everything that is good and wholesome in the world has to be “updated” and spun into a bad/typical MTV sitcom.
I think it’s up to the interns and web producers to get involved in some good old fashion investigative journalism and test out which version plays better.
i(can’t afford the)Phone
I neglected to update my status on the iPhone hunt in my previous post. As it turns out, Telus charges a lot to cancel a 2-year contract and thus I simply can’t afford to not only pay for the iPhone/monthly fees, but as well as playing off Telus charges. I’ll get my hands one soon enough and hopefully by then the some of the problems will be resolved.
I’ve been slacking a lot recently on this blog, not that I regularly maintained any sort of consistent update. But I do have a few reasons (read: excuses) as to why I haven’t been posting. Don’t fret. This isn’t a typical Livejournal blog, so I’ll keep the personal stuff down to a minimum.
For one thing, I’m in the mists of completing my internship at a city magazine at the end of the month. That in itself has been fairly pressing and stressful, as I don’t have any immediate career/job plans afterwards (read: Hire me!)
To escape the madness and looming life changing decisions I must face in the next few weeks, I’ll be flying back to Toronto for a week to celebrate several friend’s birthdays as well as my own. I am hoping that some kind of euphoric and creative flash will hit me and present a solution to my uncertain career. Whether or not substance abuse is in the mix will validate its legitimacy.
Because I am dedicated and awesome, I’ll post a list of gadgets/amusing things I discovered recently.
This is brilliant. It’s awesome how Internet memes can evolve and take on a whole new meaning.
Remember the glory days when you could run around the neighbourhood shooting your friends with water guns or nerf guns AND scare the crap out of your neighbours? Wow, I’m not a gun nut or anything but these mods look like their something found in Call of Duty 4 or Resistance. Yeesh.
Oh, but I want one. Well, two so I can dual wield the assault rifles.
I read this article in the past issue of Wired magazine and I am eagerly awaiting its arrival. The story is about how Starbucks (or as my lovely fellow intern describes them as, one of the Three Evils (Wal-mart and McDonald’s being the other two) bought the rights to use and distribute the Jesus of coffee makers — The Clover. I’m not so much a coffee aficionado, but I do enjoy a good cup of joe and it’s increasingly difficult to get away from Starbucks, especially in Calgary and Toronto.
But with this piece of hardware behind the counter (provided that the staff know what the heck they’re doing) I won’t mind so much. It’s a smart move on their part considering their loss.
If you haven’t seen this yet, go. Go now and pick up the DVD, download it, get it from a friend and lie about never borrowing it. It that good. With a method mirroring Animatrix, the straight to DVD vid is composed of six entirely different Batman stories in very different styles of animation. Wanna see Bruce Wayne as an anime character? Well this is the video for you, good sir.
Maybe that’s the inner batman-lover in me, but the kicker is that every batman in each segment is voiced by Kevin Conroy, the original voice of Batman: The Animated Series from the 1990’s. His Batman voice is smooth. There’s no awkward transition or throat damaging tones at all, making it actually more belieable and less… dramatic.
Well that’s my update. I’ll try to find time next week during my stay in the T-Dot (that’s what we call it. It’s an urban thing, get used to it).
Title of the blog: I saw a Chrysler Crossfire on my way to lunch and was immediately reminded of this commercial.
