Nil Nacht

A real nothing night. Worked late, ate pizza, watched American Idol, House and the crappy local Fox News. They gave away an SCTV Season 4 dvd set for some reason. Tried to restore my iPod, but there's a disk write error and it wouldn't do it, probably the reason it looks like it's full, anyway. Must not really be erasing, just adding and adding and adding. I guess I'll have to drop by the Apple store at the mall by work and see what they can do. As of now I can't even play it, as it says it needs to be reformatted for Windows PC use, but the updater says it's updated, so it won't do anything. Feh.

Read B. Clay Moore's and Jeremy Haun's BATTLE HYMN #1 yesterday. I must admit, I was leery of reading it because of my own WWII superhero thing in the works, IRREGULAR JOE (actually 1948 but there's some flashbacks), but after reading this I'm not worried. It's not bad at all, but it does seem to be a rejiggered INVADERS pitch, with very similar heroes. It may be better now, as Moore can do some things with the characters that he maybe wouldn't have been able to as a Marvel book, but then again, with this freedom one would hope for more difference in the characters from their inspirations, you know? Why does an underwater guy need hair or protruding ears, anyway? The Haun art is fine but not exciting, and he draws a very thin Churchill. In his defense, this is a lot of set-up and talk and quiet sequences, so maybe once the team is together he can loosen up with the action.

I'll leave you with a tip: ex-wives apparently don't care for compliments given them that include any form of the acronym "MILF", as in, "Nice outfit you had on this morning--very MILFy!" It just doesn't go over well. :)

Oh, and that Doves song, "Some Cities", from the cd of the same name, has been stuck in my head all day. Love it. Like the whole disc, actually, but it could have used another track or two like this. The singer's voice is able to punch right through all the reverby atmosphere, though.