Me Day Went Like This

[tenshikurai9]

My cell phone apparently doesn't like oonh.  If it did, it would have let him txt message me earlier today. 

But anyway, tonight I walked to Newbury Street from Boston Common to see if I could nod my head as I passed-by at a manager of one of the stores there.  No such luck.  Went to see if a friend was selling his hand-crafted wooden objects at night.  No such luck.  Went to J.P. Licks and got my free ice cream that came with registering my loyalty card on their web site.  Called the crafter friend and then paid him a visit with my sweet cream ice cream in hand.  Had conversation and Plenty of coffee from a French Press before going home. 

And oh yeah, earlier today I saw The Watchmen with the ex.  If all super hero tales were as willing to not-be heroic in favour of the complex as this one, I'd actually be into super hero tales.  (Or as silly as the two The Tick TV shows.) 

Still haven't read the comic book (for either The Watchmen or The Tick.) 

Comments

[roguishpaladin.livejournal.com]

I can help with both. Remind me next time I see you.

[fascinet.livejournal.com]

As far as the Watchmen goes--I liked the comic book a lot when I was seventeen. I never got into the whole Super-antihero gig like a lot of people did, partially because I thought Moore's run-up of the Carleton superheros (like his run-up of the UKs Marvelman) was a little less adolescent than most other attempts.

When I reread it at, say, twenty-seven, it was nowhere near as good. By moving superheros to the realm of the (pseudo-)psychological novel, from their natural four-color world, their raison d'etra is removed, and the fascade provided by the shiny tights becomes a cowardly way to talk about social issues--like so much the science fiction that, sans science, exists in the post-Star Trek world.

The attempt to turn Blue Beetle into a "three dimensonal" character (Nightowl) really only gives you the 2D character with surface relief, but poorly aligned with its coloring, like in an old metal lunch pail.

This is especially true of the rather stupid idea by Ozymandias meant to bring the world together: pulling together in the face of a common threat has never really worked. Just look at how the Greeks reacted to the Persians or the Balkans and Baltic to the Soviet-Nazi threats. Perhaps neither of the Cold War powers would look towards a deal with the supposed aliens, but certainly a lower-level regional power would--like France, Brazil or India at the time, perhaps China.

I should have seen Watchmen when I was in PA--for five bucks at the theater in downtown smalltown America.

How was Rorschach?

[tenshikurai9.livejournal.com]

Fine.