Party affiliations aside, if this doesn’t sum up the November 2008 election, I don’t know what will.

All the blessings in the world to Tom Tomorrow for summing it all up for us.

Billo the Clown the gift that keeps on giving…

Send O’Reilly Back to School

Somewhere out there, Demi Moore is taking a meeting with Les Moonves…

It’s very telling when you look at the list of actresses who today got Emmy nominations for their work in drama series:

Sally Field, Brothers & Sisters, ABC

Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer, TNT

Glenn Close, Damages, FX

Mariska Hargitay, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NBC

Holly Hunter, Saving Grace, TNT

With Sedgwick as the youngest of the five talented actresses at age 42, the median age of the quintet of nominees is 52 years old.  With acclaimed, award-winning actresses like Jessica Alba, Megan Fox, and Anne Hathaway grabbing all the plum big-budget studio film roles, is it any wonder that TV is where older good actresses continue to turn to solid, reliable work?  Never mind the fact that TV drama’s overall quality is as good if not better than the best Hollywood can muster in their motion pictures.

To be fair, though, I really think Anne Hathaway is plenty talented, her age simply attracts the suits more at Warner Bros.,  Universal & Paramount.

All thanks to Mr. Browfield for recently talking up the tattoo work I’ve had done.  It’s been a labor of love in more ways that one over the last 4-5 years, and I’m happy to say it’s truly complete now. 

Whereas this was how it was 6 months ago…

Now it’s truly come to life.  A little breakdown of the characters and details??  Going left to right…

The first character, the one in green was the first original piece Patrick Cornolo did for me back in 2003. I had the idea to have him design a punk version of Green Fury.
Underneath that is a passage from Bob Seger’s “Fire Lake”, a tribute to my late father, and the song I danced with my mom to when I got married in September of 2007.

Next is Firestar from Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends a cartoon staple of mine in the early Eighties.
Then there’s a couple of head shots, one of the original Firestorm and his contemporary counterpart. Below them is a shot of the New Teen Titans original über-babe, Starfire.

Underneath that’s a free liger that Mr. Cornolo did for me for free, but that’s got nothin’ to do with this. Heh.

Right above said liger is where we start to get to the newest stuff, as of March 10th…
I had Patrick add a little tribute to an old friend of mine who, sadly, recently passed away — I got his old jersey number 20.
As you work your way up, there’s a shot of Firehawk, Firestorm’s better half. Right above that, I had Patrick work something else into the flames: my beloved Denver Broncos’ team logo.

Running up the back of my leg, when I got this custom design of the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four, I added the 13 at the bottom as a tribute to my wife’s father who had just passed away around the time of that session. It was always his magic number.
And placed squarely on my calf is one of my favorite individual pieces, Patrick’s Rydenesque take on Wildfire of the Legion of Super-Heroes.
It’s funny how much I dig that one in particular, because I got the worst skin irritation from that one during the healing process that I had to see the doctor for cellulitis. Ouch!!!
But once it got rehabbed it looked pretty stellar and still does.

Quitter.

You can keep all the fluff and nonsense that comes from the Grammys.

I’ll take the über-HAWT Cat Power any day of the week over that assortment.

Wait, what? You haven’t been to the All-new All-Different Shots in the Dark Forums yet? That’s alright, I’ll wait. Check it out. You back yet? Great! As you can see, we relaunched with an all new #1, with 9 variant covers that link up to show a picture of a middle finger pointed at anyone you want. That’s all a lie, of course, but hey, I’m trying to be overtly satirical here! Shots in the Dark, Shotgun Reviews’ internet radio show, is already bringing you the best conversation about geek/pop culture out there. Now, we want you to get in on the conversation. We have a super-speedy forum set up, and we’ve invited some of our friends along for the ride. First, we have Jim Beard and Co’s Super-Articulate! They put out a great regular column on Newsarama about the ins and outs of the action figure industry, and now, between columns, you can get more insight from them on their forum hosted by Shots in the Dark!We’re also VERY pleased to announce that Raven Gregory, EIC of Zenescope and writer of such fine comics as Return to Wonderland, The Gift, and Se7en, is our first creator to have his very own forum at our site. So come by and show Raven that Shotgun readers are the best sycophants in the comic industry!So, whether you’re looking to chat with radio hosts, columnists, or creators (more on that to come, btw), or if you’re just looking for a douchebag-free zone of the internet where you can talk about your geek/pop culture, head on over to Shots in the Dark’s all new forum.P.S. Don’t forget to check out our latest episode, and all the back episodes. Our latest episodetackled everyone’s favorite comic topic, One More Day, and we’ll have a new episode this week explaining the ins and outs of Intellectual Property. All that, plus all the news you need from MacWorld Expo and from all around the geeky globe. 

That’ll never be me…
That’ll never be me…
That’ll never be, never be me.
NO… NO, NEVER, NEVER, EVER.
And don’t you EVER THINK IT.

Trailer time, folks!

Yes, it’s that good.

If you listen carefully, you can hear a million Batman fans all over the country weeping openly. Tears of joy, mind you.

Happy Holidays indeed.

You like to laugh, right?  Funny IS good, is it not??  Then watch NBC’s 30 Rock starting TONIGHT!  Easily the best comedy on TV right now, it’s hurting for viewers, at least in the current network climate, and it could use the help. STAND UP AND BE COUNTED FOR QUALITY TELEVISION COMEDIES!!!

As a reader who is running out of patience for what feels like the 47th time in the last decade or so with Superman the ongoing series, this solicitation had me ready to call my local shop to get it taken off my pull list…

SUPERMAN #667

Part 1 of the action-packed 2-part finale of “Camelot Falls,” by Kurt Busiek, Carlos Pacheco & Jesus Merino!

“Part ONE of a 2-part finale” to a story that’s gone on how long now???

Jesus, Kurt, can we spin a new yarn already?? “Camelot Falls” was a story only moderately worthy of the three to four parts it got initially, then they break up things with some negligible filler stories, only to hit us with another 5-parter or what-the-hell-ever???

And they sprinkle in the more fill-ins, only to get back to this endless “epic” that feels like it’s stretching out the length of Arion’s lifetime??

And help us if DC’s brass ever wonders why we keep praising the way All Star Superman simply GETS IT, even when we only get a select few issues a year.

Recently I threw down the gauntlet on behalf of Chicago baseball fans as to who would take the low road more often with the Cubs and the White Sox respectively featuring two of the game’s most volatile managers.

Right now my money is going on the White Sox. From the owner and the general manager, down to the skipper and the players, this is a team that has issues on every level.

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like Time Warner is doing a dandy job fucking up Wonder Woman. The ongoing series is an ongoing train wreck, and plenty of readers agree. It’s a miracle that new readers exist.

I don’t know if we’re EVER gonna get a decent motion picture.

Seems like the only one done right by Time Warner in 2007 so far is Lynda Carter, everyone’s favorite Amazon, appearing in Smallville.
Chicago baseball prevented me from seeing it, but I heard it was pretty sweet.

Hopefully 2008 shapes up better than 2007.

Here I was ready to keep score on the inevitable douchebaggery to take place this year between the Chicago Cubs’ Lou Piniella and the White Sox’ Ozzie Guillen, and they are both beaten to the punch, and then some, by Don Imus??
That’s like shooting fish in a barrel!!
I guess I’m torn in that I CLEARLY DISAGREE with the God-awful comments Imus made at the expense of Rutgers University women’s basketball team, but I keep wondering if Don Imus matters. I guess he does because he attracts a lot of listeners/viewers – it’s just he seems very irrelevant to me and those I consider my peers.

Much like this one guy who frequents Newsarama who goes by the handle “Graeme.”
No charge. ;-)

All things considered, though, Imus should thank his lucky stars that he’s not employed by the NFL.

Lord knows I have blogs in the public arena as well as more personal. So I thought I’d do something fun here.

In light of the Windy City now featuring two of Major League Baseball’s most volatile personalities, I will use my space here to track how the White Sox’s Ozzie Guillen and the Cubs’ Lou Piniella perform when things are good and when they’re bad.

I’m dying to see if Ozzie can blabbermouth his way out of one of the premier gigs in baseball, and if Sweet Lou can make it in Cubdom without having a coronary.

Play ball!!!