Oooohh yeah I have another crush alert! 2 people have a crush on me. No, wait, I refresh the page and now 5 people have a crush on me. Ridiculous. If this were *Actually* Really* true, the person(s) would leave a message. I'm tired of it now. I didn't sign up for this. Lame advertisements be gone! I prefer the ads of the cute girls acting like they're chatting online when they're really not a lot more than these stupid crush alerts. The person that thought that up - You Fail.
*5-2-08 - I was wrong about Paltrow, she played her part very well.*
When I was a kid I really loved the look of Iron Man. I never bought any of the comics (now I wish I had back then) but I always liked the armor this character wore. Back 20 years ago I remember thinking how cool it would be to see a Iron Man movie. Well now that's going to happen. When I first heard that Robert Downey Jr. was going to play Tony Stark I didn't like that idea. Now seeing the previews it seems he will be fine for the part so I'm okay with it. I see absolutely nothing wrong with this movie except for the fact we also have Gwenith Paltrow playing Stark's secretary and or girlfriend. I don't hate her but when I saw her in the second trailer I said, "Whaaaat? Why?" For some reason I don't like her voice or how she acts now. Just, um, boring, I donno what it is. And she seems kind of out of place for this type of movie, too. Well whatever. I've watched this new trailer several times now. I read the cast and see we also have Jeff Bridges in this movie! Now I like him. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Tron and Starman were some favorites of mine and fun to watch and he's a great actor. I saw him three times in the preveiw but didn't even recognize him! He's bald and sporting a beard. Also in the teaser trailers we don't hear him speak so that may be another reason I didn't know that was him.
I read up on Iron Man at wikipedia. Anthony Edward Stark. A genius with an advanced degree in engineering. At 21 he inherits his fathers company, Stark Industries after his parents are killed in a car accident. Stark has a vast personal fortune, and is also known as a philanthropist. Stark also provides technology to other superheroes. Iron Man was originally an anti-communist hero. Throughout the character's comic book series, technological advancement and national defense were constant themes for Iron Man, but later issues developed Stark into a more complex and vulnerable character as they depicted his battle with alcoholism and other personal difficulties.
Tony Stark is captured in Vietnam by a Vietnamese warlord; now updated in Afghanistan I believe for the film. Dying from a piece of shrapnel lodged in his heart, Tony is forced to build weapons along with a fellow prisoner, the famed physicist Ho Yinsen. However, Stark and Yinsen use the workshop to secretly design and construct a suit of powered armor — an iron exoskeleton that saves Stark's life by keeping his heart beating. The suit gives him tremendous strength, and in helping his escape.
Created by Stan Lee. Lee based Stark's personality on Howard Hughes. A multi billionaire, inventor, adventurer and ladies man. (Hmm, a multi billionaire, high tech superhero whose parents are killed. This sounds familiar. Who has more money? Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark? Well those are two different universes, one being Detective Comics and the other Marvel)
I think Jeff Bridges may be playing the character Justin Hammer, one of Stark's business rivals. I just hope it's going to be a LOT more Bridges and very little Paltrow. Please.
My grandmother got a letter yesterday from Trident Society. On the front it says FREE Pre-Paid Cremation! DETAILS INSIDE
......um, what?
Inside it reads;
WIN A PRE-PAID CREMATION Complete all of the reply slip information and you will be eligible for a drawing each month. May 2007 WINNER: MR. CLAIR LEUCART
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-It allows families to conduct simple personal services at their own convenience
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They call this Dignified? I find this letter rather sick and appalling.
My grandparents paid for a mausoleum btw.
I don't want to plan where I'm going to be laid to rest. It just seems too freaky. I think that I really wouldn't care what happens to my body when I'm gone. Put me in a cheap pine box. I wouldn't want a funeral either. No service. Nothing. And I think the only way that I would want to be cremated would be floating on a raft on a river or ocean and *then* set on fire. I don't like the idea of being put in a furnace. Gross!
Right now I've been going through a depressing time the past few weeks wondering if. My family booked a 10 day cruise to Alaska at the end of August, leaving from and coming back to San Francisco. We booked the cruise almost 6 months ago. Passports are not required for this trip but highly recommended. Well, I decided I would get a passport, hahahaha, WRONG. I don't have my original birth certificate which is required in order to get a passport. Now it gets even better. In order to go on the cruise I will need a Birth Certificate. heh. Everybody has a birth certificate, right?........... Here's the thing. I was adopted way back 37 years ago when my mother remarried. Years later after I finished high school I decided to change my name BACK to my biological fathers name. Since I was born with that name I thought it only appropriate to do this. No problem. You go to the DMV and change your name to whatever you want for like 10 bucks. Well in the court my last name is still under my step dads, and I was told by a *paralegal* (which was a big mistake to go to) that my original birth certificate doesn't exist anymore because my adoption was sealed. I have talked to the Bureau of Vital Statistics, the Passport Regulations and even the hospital where I was born with no help at all. To change my name back by the court I'm told would take months and the trip is less than 60 days away. I'm screwed. I'm a goddamn Muslim terrorist to them. I have to cancel my trip now. After being so anxious to go for so long, AND it appears it's ALL because of these Muslims. Well, I suppose I should add *terrorists* after Muslim. Fuck... And with all these new bombings occuring right now in England doesn't help matters any. *Big Fucking Sigh*................
You know that saying, *Is the glass half full or half empty*
This is how it is: You have a drinking glass. You pour a beverage half way - It's half full. You have a drinking glass. You fill the glass all the way to the top, you drink it half way down - It's half empty. Alright then.
Match Game, Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers
Current mood: contemplative
So my friend has digital cable, and so I'm flipping channels and one of the stations called GSN (Game Show Network) was showing an old Match Game episode from the 70's. Oh wow I loved this show when I was a kid! Here's Gene Rayburn right now on tv! Am I dreaming? Okay I wasn't THAT into Match Game but it always entertained me. There was Brett Somers, one of the popular celebrity panelists. Now I thought of something. Another really famous guest celebrity to be on this game show was Charles Nelson Reilly. And I thought tonight while watching Brett Somers show her answer on that blue card that they look very much alike. Has Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers EVER been on the show together? Huh?! Okay, I have decided that Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers are the same person. Yeah that's right. Someone prove me wrong.
To make demi-glace, it needs the flesh and bones of 40 cows. Simmering, stirring, cooking down until there is nothing at the end. Just a teacup, a thimbleful of beef's most precious essence. The sauce. The final reduction. Hours upon hours of simmering...stirring...and straining and it all comes down to this moment. This precious fluid, this elixir of beef. One false step by one ignorant, ham-fisted, boneheaded cluck, and toodle-oo! Forty cows down the toilet. Now, I'm sure I don't have to remind any of you Wolfgang Puck wannabes, the roux cannot be hot, it cannot be cold, it must be *warm* otherwise it will poach.
I, Sledge, am hungry. I want to eat! And what do I want to eat? Something that *you* made? No. I want something good. I want something that *I* made! MY smoked sturgeon with poached egg on frisee. The hollandaise blending with the runny yellow yolk... counterpointing the crispness of the fresh greens. MY ratatouille, my coulibiac of bass! MY Chicken Pojarski! The cream and the brandy and the paprika blending with the juices of my mouth!...moving me to the pinnacle of gustatory ecstasy! [guffaws]
Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form. Forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand, there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness. With all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely delusion.
Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that, matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension. I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies, that what we are goes beyond Euclidian or other practical measuring systems, and that our existence is part of a reality *beyond* what we understand now as reality.
Surviving fragments of Superman's home world of Krypton are known as kryptonite. In the last days of Krypton, a chain reaction with the planet's core caused a build-up of enormous pressures. These pressures fused the minerals inside Krypton into the new, radioactive, super-actinide element kryptonium. Furthermore, the pressure grew to be too much for the planet's mantle to contain, and Krypton exploded in a violent eruption. The resulting kryptonite is the ore of kryptonium, and it is best known for its green hue. Even if the planet Krypton had not exploded, the radiation from the kryptonite would have eventually killed all the inhabitants in what the Kryptonians called the Green Death.
Though the radiation from kryptonite is harmful to all life, it is especially harmful to Kryptonians (notably Superman). Kryptonite radiation rapidly fills Superman's cells and drives out the solar energy stored therein. Prolonged exposure to kryptonite would be fatal to Superman. There is no relationship between kryptonite and the chemical element krypton, though Superman's home world was probably named after the element.
The main source of kryptonite on Earth is a rock that was attached to the rocket ship that brought Superman to Earth. This one rock has been fashioned into at least two forms. Superman gave Batman a kryptonite ring (formerly belonging to Lex Luthor) in case someone ever needed to use it against the Man of Steel. Some kryptonite bullets were stored in a lead container in the Fortress of Solitude.
In addition, the mischievous imp Mr. Mxyzptlk magically created some red kryptonite that robbed Superman of his powers. This red K has been seen only during the "Krisis of the Krimson Kryptonite" story line.
Batman also created a red kryptonite variety that makes Kryptonian's skin transparent, while not effecting humans. This caused Superman's powers to increase to the point where he couldn't control them due to the unfiltered rays of our yellow sun going straight into him. Ra's Al Ghul duplicated this in the "Tower of Babel" story line in the JLA comic book.
In the pre-Crisis years (and the Pocket Universe), there were a myriad of colors of kryptonite which plagued Superman and other Kryptonians.
What are the different types of Kryptonite?
Post-Crisis there have been only three main types, of which only one has made more than one appearance. This, usually refered to just as "kryptonite", is green and has similar effects on Kryptonians as pre-Crisis Green K. While it has no immediate effect on Terrans or other races, prolonged exposure has resulted in cancer due to radiation.
In the Pocket Universe storyline, Superman encountered what amounted to a rainbow of types of pre-Crisis Kryptonite. He was not affected by any of it, although PU Kryptonians were.
A whole spectrum of Kryptonite varieties were briefly seen at the beginning of the "Supergirl from Krypton" story line in the Superman/Batman comics when a Kryptonite meteor crashed to earth, but most were collected and stored by the JLA and JSA, so none of these have come into play... yet.
Pre-Crisis, there were numerous types. These were:
Green Kryptonite: weakens and eventually kills super-powered Kryptonians. Usually harmless to other races, but one story in Brave and the Bold had a device used which resulted in Terrans being affected similar to Kryptonians.
Anti-Kryptonite: similar to Green K, but affects non-super-powered Kryptonians. This was a retcon used to explain why the non-powered Argo City residents could be killed by what seemed to be Green K.
X-Kryptonite: Only one chunk, it was created by Supergirl trying to find a cure for Green K. It gives Terrans, or at least Terran cats, Kryptonian style powers for a limited time.
Red Kryptonite: Causes a specific, odd, effect. Often involved physical transformations or mental changes. Each chunk had a different effect, and could only affect a given Kryptonian once. Effects usually wore off in 24-48 hours. Created when Green K passed through a space cloud.
Gold Kryptonite: Removes a Kryptonian's super-powers permanently. Created when Green K passed through a different space cloud.
White Kryptonite: Kills any plant life from any world. Yep, another space cloud.
Blue Kryptonite: Created by the same imperfect duplicator ray that created the Bizarros. Bizarro's major weakness is Blue Kryptonite. This Blue Kryptonite will affect true Kryptonians like Superman and Supergirl, but it is deadly to Bizarros.
Jewel Kryptonite: Remnents of Krypton's Jewel Mountains, it allows Phantom Zone residents to focus their mental energy and cause explosions in the outside world.
Two notable fake varieties are Silver and Yellow K. Silver was used to keep Superman from closely investigating what turned out to be a 25th (silver) anniversary gift for him from his friends, and Yellow was used by Luthor to fake out what he thought was Superman. It turned out it was a Superman robot ordered to react to Kryptonite like the real thing. When Luthor found this out, he returned all the gold from Fort Knox which he'd stolen.
'My warrior woman, she almost yanks my head clean off. Shoving my mouth into hers so hard it hurts. An explosion that blasts away the dull, gray years between the now and that one fiery night when she was mine.' "I'll always love you, baby." "Always....and never." She replies.
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'The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire...., my warrior woman, my Valkyrie. You'll always be mine... Always.... and never.'
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