I Saw TF2!

Man, I came on here to brag all about how I got to see Transformers: RotF before any of my US friends because I'm in asia and therefore in the future. But then upon looking it up TF2 had a wednesday opening instead of a friday opening so I didn't REALLY get to see it that much before everyone else. Maybe just 12 hours or so.

But how about that for fandom? I flew half way across the world to see it before anyone. Suck on that beeches!

And it was very nerdgasmic.

Whah-Pow Beeches! Whaddup from Taiwan!

Hey I have 12 min to report. So, here we go!

Taiwan is a land of flat slopes. The ground is paved and flat but only in sections. Everyone who owns land apparently wants to have their land slightly higher than their neighbors. Therefore there are 1 to 2 steps everywhere you go. It's very much an e-peen sort of thing (penis waving contest).

And I don't give a damn if I'm generalizing, I'll generalize all the hell I want.

FOR EXAMPLE...

This is a land that's been conquered, reconquered and/or left by nearly every country that's ever had conquesting dreams. It's like a stepping stone to any would be imperialistic country in their journey to try and rule the world. Because of that there are a lot of influences and they don't always mesh very well.

Taiwan is a land that will have face masks to cover up and protect the wearer from pollution and various virus. BUT they will lift that face mask to smoke. And they'll smoke a lot of you let them. The smoking accesorries here are as plentiful as flavors and fixings at a starbucks.

Anyways I'm short on time and I have on-lookers as I'm in an internet cafe. So much pressure. It's not as wi-fied here as I would like but then again there's NO place that is wi-fied as I would like.

6 min to go. Baby you want to say anything?

Are you happy to see me?

Hell yea! I'm a sad pathetic mess when you're not around.

Awwwwwwwwwwww..... No!

Dad: running out of time!

Me: Not much time... what do you want to say?

Her: Can't wait to show everyone my pictures and see everyone when I get back.

Good. Done?

Yea.

K everyone bye!

I'm Leaving You

... But I'll be back.

This time tomorrow I'll be on a plane heading to Japan with the final destination of Taiwan. If it's going to be anything like my last trips to the Asian continent I haven't quite slipped into insanity yet. I'll just be at the point where I start getting tired of standing because that's what I do on a flight to Asia. I stand... the entire way. Fucking little seats.

Well if you miss me I will certainly do my best to blog the trip. I'm certainly going to carry around my phone to twittering is a possibility. In any case I'll be back before you know it and until then I guess you can read about my previous trips to the Asian continent. If I'm lucky this trip will be just as eventful without any of the horribleness...

... I'm looking at you, Chinese toilets...

Japan

China

Yay I get to see Her soon!

I'm Done With Superhero Comics

Yea, I read comics...

I think the biggest mistake the comic book industry has ever made was to bring Superman back. Sure the guy was a legend. But when they killed him it was huge news. It was on covers of magazines people were talking about it, it was the death of an icon. More than that people identified with a piece of fiction and comics were viewed as something to be paid attention to, a piece of art.

Then, a year or so later they brought him back and that move cheapened everything.

From then on, death was viewed as just something that happened, something that could be reversed and comics were again divorced from reality. I believe that by doing so comics once again are the stuff for children. No real substance, just fantasy. There's a bunch of people here and a bunch of people there and they fight because one is labeled good and the other evil.

I feel that by DC Comics reviving Superman they set back the movement of comics being taken seriously. Since then no superheroes' life or death was covered as much as that one except for maybe the death of Captain America.

When I read that comic it was so surprising and delivered so well, but the cynic in me just couldn't shut up and enjoy the story. "They'll bring him back, the voice in my head said. Death in comics mean nothing." I was really hoping for that voice to be wrong and I said if they ever do I'd be done with comics. The american superhero kind anyways. If they bring back Steve Rogers as Captain America I will no longer view superhero comics as art or anything else other than uncreative rehashing of one story after another for the purposes of making a buck.

I died a little today.

Show Your Gratitude and Shut Up

So, the a/c of the house is not working and never really worked. We bought the house during the winter so it wasn't that big of a deal. Part of the agreement though WAS to get that fixed though. So yesterday was the day for the guy to come and finished the work he's been doing. I asked the in-laws to help out since they're retired and going up to the attic during any time of the day when the sun's been out for a while just plain sucks. So they agree and come wait at the house and let the guy in etc etc.

I'm thankful. I really am. I appreciate what they did for me, I really do. But either they didn't take their shoes off or didn't ask the guy to or both but someone's been walking around the house with shoes. It's as if I walk a pig around smothered in cheese around their house.

I spent the entire evening cleaning up. I guess it's something I should do anyways but...

Nevermind. I'm so glad I was able to get my in-laws to help me out. I'm going to shut up now.