Imperial Witch.

So I'm back at my apartment. Exciting! Except not really. Not really exciting at all.

( DRIVE BY LIFE UPDATES, now under a cut for extra skipability!! )

DILEMNA, FLIST: I just got a response to someone else's craigslist ad in my inbox. It seems that somewhere out there, there is an e-couple waiting to "hook up" by terms of modern parlance. Unfortunately, along the way the man misplaced a decimal in his would-be lover's email address, and now the conversation has fallen to ME. Should I forward it with a note? Just forward it and not say anything and hope no one notices? IGNORE IT AND PRETEND THIS NEVER HAPPENED??

Also, hi new people. I don't have any newfangled introduction posts or comment criteria, I figure: it's a livejournal, you can figure it out. But I do encourage you to participate in this meme I just made up.

Comment with the name of a fictional character. I will reply with a haiku about that character. Example haiku can be found here. C'MON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO.

I'm pretty sure my friend ezmo11 said it best:



And heeere is my official Iron Man movie post. Like I did for Spider-man 3 except with more alcohol.

( A Crash Course in Tony Stark. )

( IRON MAN: A RECAP. )

To be brief: I really liked this movie. The best part were the short, unnecessary scenes between the actors-- Tony and Rhodes on the phone, that part with Pepper and the mucus-filled hole of doom, Obadiah and his evil pizza slices. The movie was in general really well-acted, and I'm pretty sure Robert Downey Jr. was meant to be the Iron Man of our universe. Just, Dr. Doom intervened or something and now he's just an actor with substance abuse problems.

What's interesting about this movie is that Iron Man's the most flawed of the flawed heroes, but for some reason his movie is the least angsty. There's no crushing guilt, no tortured romance. As a result it's a super hero movie that's actually really funny, and not in that uncomfortable Fantastic Four 2 sort of way. On the scale of recent movies of the genre, I'd put it above Spider-man but below Spider-man 2-- it's about on the level of Batman Begins, but though they feature similar heroes, the movies try to do two very different things.

So first off, some more fulfilling of the "Top Five Lists" meme. This is for lafourchette, who has been busy busy busy working on her thesis and dealing with grad school woes, so I wanted to do a good job. Kate, I give you internet hearts: ♥ ♥ ♥ And my top five awkward moments in US History.



( Four more underneath the cut. )

MEANWHILE, IN REAL COMIC BOOKS:



Captain America came out last week and it contained this panel which I did not need to photoshop in any way. Most of the time, this comic is free of the usual Marvel one-liners, and everything is DEADLY SERIOUS but occasionally the surreal happens, and then I scan and post it to livejournal.

But really this is kind of in reference to a post on analogic's journal, where she talked about comics she liked and/or read and I thought I could be really nerdy and do that too.

( Reed Richards: Sexy? Unsexy? Horatio Hornblower?? )

Also, look! Over there! anonymous ◉ meme! I'm weak, and caved :/