Dreamt of a Lie

My wife had a nightmare the other night. I was awakened because the dream was so intense that she was shaking with fright. I asked her the next day what the nightmare had been about. She told me that she didn't remember.

And it makes me wonder: why would someone lie about something like that?

Making Trouble

I wanted a challenge so I thought I'd try to bite off more than I could chew and perhaps even more than I wanted to taste.

So over at the Trouble With Comics site I'm writing reviews of all 52 issues of the newly re-launched DC Comics.

(Okay, it's only 51 issues because I threw the gauntlet down after the debut of Justice League #1).

Part one is here...
with action and an animal, man.

And Part two is here...
as I attempt to figure out how to build a better bat-trap.

Yes, instead of getting beauty sleep I've been reading comic books that I usually wouldn't have bothered with and then I'm writing about them to see if I would have missed something great or my instincts would have been correct. Winners, surprises and stinkers.

And for my next trick I'm going to pull a rabbit out of my hat and then force feed it to a goldfish.

Post Labour Day thoughts

Four things:


1. When I was as a teenager I remember being giddy on the Tuesday after Labor Day because I would run to the local variety store and grab the Fall Preview issue of TV Guide. I read that puppy like it was my new best friend and learned about all of the great new shows. School was fun, but the fall preview issue of TV Guide was better. And for a long time (much too long) I kept all the issues.

And now TV Guide no longer exists and the fall tv season premieres run through September, October and November, and I am therefore ever so slightly less giddy than I used to be. - sigh -


2. Years ago I knew a woman who told me that when she was a child her parents bought her new underwear for the new school year and all of the old stuff would go in the trash. She told me that she now continues the tradition and, for her, Labor Day is synonymous with new undies.

I have always thought that story was kind of cool. Labor Day becomes Lingerie Day! There's a holiday every couple could celebrate!!


3. I didn't realize the proper spelling until a couple of days ago -- so it's been a lifetime of spelling the word incorrectly in my mind...

But now it seems quite obvious that "symmetry" has two m's otherwise it would look unbalanced and untrue to itself.


4. I found myself pondering this the other day...

A man and woman are hurrying through a door as they run across a wet floor.

It's a true battle of the Titans. Which wins: ladies first or safety first?