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War Journal Entry number 1004 - Black Friday and Local Comic Shop Day
Running a little later on my comics this week because I didn't get them until Friday night. My local comic shop, Carol & John's Comic Shop has been doing a Black Friday Event for 20 years now. I say event because it is more a party than sale (though it is a sale too) with music, raffles, and even drinks. It starts at 7:00 pm (to avoid pulling ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 1003 - Brain
I have a character flaw. Well, yeah, obviously I have more than one, but I'm only thinking of one right now. Specifically I'm talking about the inverse relationship between my intelligence and negative emotions. In other words, when I get upset I get stupid ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 1002 - Try To Be Better
I don't think that I'm not racist. I don't think that I'm not sexist. I don't think that I'm not judgmental. I just try to be better ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 1001 - Happy Towel Day
We chose titanium for our wedding bands, it was very appropriate ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 1000 - Destroy 2000 Years of Culture
Say you were never good enough for your parents. Say that even when you did good and followed the rules they treated you distrustfully. More than that, say they punished you without cause because they simply assumed, without evidence, that you had done wrong. Say their punishments went above and beyond what they themselves would tell others was ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 999 - Mourning
"Death is a release from and an end of all pains: beyond it our sufferings cannot extend: it restores us to the peaceful rest in which we lay before we were born. If anyone pities the dead, he ought also to pity those who have not been born. Death is neither a good nor a bad thing, for that alone which is something can be a good or a bad thing: but ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 998 - Slave Leia? More like Bad-ass Leia
I was around six when Star Wars: Return of the Jedi came out, but it was certainly memorable. I had already seen the other movies so I was going into it already loving the main characters, and that included Princess Leia. She was a strong, competent leader. Even when she needed help it wasn’t owing to weakness on her part; they were simply ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 997 - Macho
I always feel guarded around heterosexual cis men. As soon as I find out that someone is gay, bi, trans, or in some other way queer then I relax a bit. One of the reasons that the Ice Balls essay on The Tusk resonated with me is that men do have it rough too, but you shouldn’t pity them because they are the ones that are making it difficult on each ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 996 - Not offended? Not surprising.
It seems that every day brings another group of people offended by something. Well, this is the internet, and expressing displeasure about something is one of the primary purposes of it, eh ( Read more... ) -
War Journal Entry number 995 - To Jack, and to Life
I’ve got an embarrassing admission to make. I didn’t like Jack Kirby’s art when I first saw it. I started reading comics in 1990, and in comparison to the “hot” artists of the time his work looked downright crude. But I was a Marvel fan, and the bedrock of Marvel rests on the backs of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. What that meant is I didn’t really ( Read more... )