Superman

I don't know about you, but I'm excited about seeing "Superman Returns." It looks really good to me.

Bet you didn’t know this about Superman:

He started as a bald villain! One of the all-time greatest good-guy superheroes actually began life as a big, bad bald guy bent on world domination! Comic creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first drew him as a villain in a January 1933 story called "The Reign of the Super-Man," which appeared in an issue of their comic fanzine Science Fiction. It bombed, so they reimagined him as a superhero.

Forty Things You Don’t Know about Superman

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
You may have noticed a few changes on this page, but just wait till you see the changes I've made in the house this week. Guess what I've done?

HA!

I love Maxine

I know there are a lot of "Maxine" e-mails floating around, but some are cheap imitations. You can usually tell by the different font style or the use of blatant profanity (Maxine doesn't need to drop the F-bomb to get the point across).

Here's a link to "Crabby Road," the daily online Maxine comic, and at this site over here you will find more Maxine than you can shake a stick at.



What are some of your favorite Maxine lines?

Monday Memories

Ok, I know it's Tuesday, but let's not quibble...

I'm posting this after seeing the idea on Don't Try This At Home, a blog I ran across recently. Thanks for the idea, Chilihead.

Here's a memory for ya...

When we were dating, my (now) husband and I were in college together. We met up in the quad one day between classes (how typical), and when he saw me he jumped onto a bench and loudly said, "Penny's my girl, of that I'm proud. I'll stand on a bench and shout it out loud!"

So cheesy. So silly. So Kirk.

Bluegrass "Jump"

Naughty girl!

I ain't judgin', but you aught to read this article about Heather Mills McCartney's "colorful past."

What do you see?

ancient prediction

We know he loved Van Halen...

An update on Casey Sheehan:
On 25 May 2006, a headstone was finally placed at Casey's grave, one described thusly by the Vacaville Reporter: "The elegant marble slab is thick and emblazoned with a cross and delicate thickets of trees on both sides."

"Our Casey," reads an inscription on the front. "Ever faithful, kind, and gentle, good son, beloved brother, brave soldier, dear friend, you loved your family and lived your life serving others to the end." Six icons grace the other side, representing a military insignia, the theater, Eagle Scouts, Van Halen, the World Wrestling Federation and Superman.

That same publication also contacted Cindy Sheehan via e-mail for her comments on the placement of the headstone. Sheehan said she had paid for the tombstone herself and was part of a family effort to put it up, even though its installation saddened her.

"It is important for the rest of Casey's family to have one," she wrote. "I guess the pain of seeing it etched in marble that he is dead is another pain I will have to deal with."

The headstone was very expensive, Sheehan wrote. She said that the government should have paid for it because of its responsibility for his death.