Simpsons, Anime Style ; BG, Simpsons Style, and More....

If you haven't already checked this site out, go now, to this site, and check out the anime style version of The Simpsons, Futurama, and more. No, really, you want to do this. It ranks up with the now famous Battlestar Galactisimpsons pics, one of which I used for my profile pic on Netflix. (Yeah, I know. - yet another site that requires 100x100 profile pics!)

Most of this weekend was New Caprica-esque bleariness, so I took advantage of the weather to catch up on all the mostly legal videos I had been saving for such a day. I finally saw the final 2 episodes of "24" almost a week later. "24" sucked bigtime this year - it's obvious the writers were just rolling hex dice and coming up with lame plot twists. I cannot tell you how bizarre it is for me to say this - this is like a heroin addict putting down the kit, saying "No more buttered scones for me Major, I'm off to play my grand piano, I am forsaking the smack for a glass of water." But it is easy to do when the show sucks.

I also watched the latest episdoe of Dennou Coil (which I mentioned earlier) and the latest 2 episodes of Yet Another Anime Series On TV In Japan, Darker Than Black . I can watch all of this and not be welded to my TV because I really don't watch a lot of "regular" TV anyway (and especially now that LOST, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes are off the air), and I usually just hold them on my hard drive until a dreary day comes along.

I also made a stop at Comix Experience on Dvisadero to pick up the most recent Love and Rockets comic by the Hernandez brothers. I started collecting this comic in 1989 when I was in school at Santa Cruz after seeing the film "Comic Book Confidential." Curious, I bought an issue of Love and Rockets (volume 1) and was rather puzzled by it, since the comic was in the middle of a very involved plotline. I got addicted to the series almost immediately, and have been buying the issues and the books ever since.

Oddly enough there are very few constants in my adult life, given that I've lived in a number of cities, and held all sorts of unique jobs, but one thing that I could always count on was finding time to go to a good comic store and buying the latest L&R, Hate, or Eightball. It is still kind of strange tothink that I've been doing this for almost 20 years, though.

However, I have no intention of stopping, especially not now. I figure that when the System collapses and we're all bartering for stuff, the guy with the generators and water purifiers will be a big Fantagraphics fan and I'll be all set.