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…unless I bump my “IMAGES” one again, which’ll make it one less. No wait, that was last updated in December. And since I tire of restricting entries to single topics, here’s the month-end wrap-up:

Cartoon Network’s The Brave and the Bold, which doesn’t make me forgive them for cancelling Justice League, but almost does, as long as they keep ’em coming with scenes like last night’s “Brain vs. brawn” that must have been inspired by Doom Patrol’s; beats Battlestar Galactica’s season-filling politics, that’s for sure
Two months into my fitness program, I’m 13,782 calories behind and my Nike+ sensor just died
That awesome giant shoe (really, Reuters, an “Oddly Enough”?), like something out of Monty Python or Hitchhiker’s Guide, went up then came down, quickly dashing the chicken hawks’ predictions of monuments to Bush in Iraq
Grant Morrison’s crisis is finalized; Batman may be the shit, but Superman is God. Again
Fuck the $100 wireless adapter, I got sharing to work, and the Xbox 360 lives again—well, for as long as people supply me with codes for free months of Live
윤대섭 is a septuagenarian today

Suicide note of a spree-shooter:

To my friends and family:
I am sorry.

And to my friend, (redacted)

I am especially sorry. I know it’s not much consolation but as my friend and roommate you are entitled to everything that I own. Maybe these things can bring in a few bucks.

Good luck in this (expletive) world.

Erik

If you need my personal information for any reason, here it is:

My ssn: (redacted)
My bank account number: (redacted)
My alien number: (redacted)
My ODL: 974739
My birthdate: 03-10-84

The check I wrote you should be most of the money in my account. I gave you an affidavit in case you want to check what’s left but it’s probably less than $20.

Qwest account login (www.qwest.com/myaccount):

(redacted)
(redacted)

My car is up to date with maintenance. It just leaks a little oil. You can probably get at least 2.5 grand for it. It’ll be somewhere downtown but I’m not sure where. I’m sure you’ll get a letter about it soon.

You know my ps3 is special. Similar USED ps3’s go for AT LEAST $450-$500. Our landlord guy wants a ps3 like mine. Let him know that $400 would be a GOOD deal. If he doesn’t want it, format the drive by going to Settings>System>Format Utility. You can say it “comes with the latest firmware software” to help market it on the internet. In case you don’t know, it’s the special “100% backwards compatible” (60 GB) ps3.

I’m sorry to put all this on you buddy, good luck.

It didn’t fit back into Final Crisis as well as it left, but so what. I love that the metatext has got folks thinking meta-phorically: first Mandrakk is Mandrake, and now he’s Alan Moore. Maybe Frank Miller, if you compare All-Stars. Merryman in Limbo, crazy-ass Ultraman—it’s taken a while, but I’ve finally gotten over the name; he shows up on no less than the twelfth page of ウルトラマンs on Google Image Search (but not without stopping at this), and even then it’s not a picture with the upside-down shield and clever FedEx-like negative space—that’s right, I got my end of Animal Man. Thanks, Grant.

My erstwhile dalliances in the FOB campus scene suggests that there’s more drama involved here than outright mental illness, but I suppose it may serve as a chilling reminder that the propensity to kill, and so brutally, with such finality, is very much a human trait. And globalization’s only gonna clarify its statistical prevalence among Asians.

I can’t get over how much beady-eyed Max with his close-cropped hair and knack for infuriating bumbling reminds me of W. Then there’s the nonchalant racism, which must’ve escaped me as a lad but prompted a double-take last night: the Chief explains that Miss Formosa, she of the unforgettable “true KAOS” line, avoided detection by CONTROL’s computer because “people from that part of the world” looked too much alike for it. Interestingly enough, they missed the cue for the laugh track (or left it out, on second thought).

It only just struck me that the once-generic term “app” has all but been brilliantly budded by Apple. (They could just as easily have gone with “applet”, but this was better. I suggest Palm go with “pals”, and not “alms”.) Say what you will about the propriety of this concept, I’m only disappointed that they didn’t take it further and make the squeezing less target practice and requiring a more refined, direction-based, tilt-based touch. Hell, I could expand it into a freakin’ RPG.