The voting for round 3 of Comic Book Idol has started. Yes, I voted for Rodriguez.
Hubby-Eric watched AFI's 100 Years... 100 Songs. Ok, yeah, I watched it too. The first Oz song came up at number 82, with "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead". "The Rainbow Connection" was at 74. As expected, "Suicide Is Painless" aka The Theme from MASH was on the list, at 66. A song I like a lot for no good reason: "Fame" was at 51. "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" was at 47. Release the movie already, Disney. It's not nearly as bad as you think it is. The oh so classic "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" was at 12. "Sound of Music" was at 10... by then I had realized there was no chance of seeing anything from Seven Brides From Seven Brothers on the list. "When You Wish Upon A Star" popped up at 7... "Singin' In The Rain" at 3, with Kermit commenting on it... "As Time Goes By" at 2... "Over The Rainbow" was, just as we really expected, at number 1. Hubby-Eric wasn't even slightly antsy when number 2 was announced, because he knew it would be on the list, and therefore it would be number one.
If you have a Gmail account, and want to get rid of the free accounts they give you every once in awhile, there's an effort to get those accounts to the troops via Gmail4Troops.com. In case you want to send me Gmail, my address is realtegan@gmail.com. I finally got my first piece of spam yesterday, two days after activating the account.
Here's a really odd movie that gives a new definition to "hand gun". Warning: fake violence and 15 MB download. Via MetaFilter.
Speaking of fake... here's another example of Republican Family Values. I didn't connect the name "Jeri Ryan" to the Star Trek actress until hubby-Eric pointed it out.
Cool design for Canada Day Commemorative Quarter was created by an 11-year-old BC boy. I want one. Via Boing Boing.
Don't forget. July 3rd is the third annual Free Comic Book Day. Visit a comic shop, just about ANY comic shop, and ask (politely) for a free comic book.
In addition, many shops are holding special events. Check with your local shop for details. The shop I buy my comics at is going to have a drawing for a $100 gift certificate. By spreading the news I might be lessening my chances at winning, but if it brings more people into Corner Comics on July 3rd, it's worth it. You have to physically go to the shop on July 3rd to enter the contest, although you don't have to be present during the drawing to win. No purchases are necessary to enter the drawing, but you can get an extra entry for every $50 you spend! So everyone in the Seattle area needs to plan a visit to Kenmore on July 3rd.
As long as we're talking about Free Comic Book Day, I should mention that the comic books are NOT free to the retailers. The books cost anywhere from 10 cents to 75 cents per book for the retailers. So don't expect to get a lot of books unless you go to a generous retailer or you chipped in to support the effort (like I did). I hope to get all 31 books, but there is no guarantee that all of them came (or even that my shop owner (hi Paige!) even ordered the more expensive ones).
I visited my shop today and saw the huge pile of boxes of "free" comics waiting to be opened, sorted, and counted. This is not going to be a small effort on the part of comic shops. I also picked up this week's books, which include Previews (I'll do my Flipping Through post sometime this week), The Lizard of Oz (can't promise I'll review it, I'm not even sure I'll read it), The Goon #7 (I don't even buy Hellboy, but I got this for the Hellboy appearance... go figure), Amazing Spider-Man #68/509, Common Grounds #6, Batman Adventures #15, Conan #5, Java! #1 (from local company Committed Comics), and Witchblade #76 (entirely because Troy "Common Grounds" Hickman wrote it). I also snagged Green Lantern and JLA from the sneak peek pile, but I won't post reviews of those until they come out. I had to see how the three Green Lantern pages from Comic Book Idol were done in the actual book.
