"...And nothing else matters."

 "There's a sucker born every minute"
-P.T. Barnum (1810–1891)

Happy Hump Day folks! That's right, this is the middle of the work-week, so press on, because Friday is a mere 2 days away!

I wanted to briefly discuss Dan Didio's controversial statements that all Crisis events are no longer in continuity in the rebooted DCU.

I first saw this made mention @Bleedingcool.com, and if you follow this link, you'll see what I'm talking about:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/10/01/all-crisis-events-removed-from-dc-continuity/.

So, Didio basically states on facebook this:

 I'll "bracce myself indeed. Learn to spell idiot!

How nice of Didio and Co. to declare this(note the sarcasm)
So what does this mean exactly?
You know all those trade paperbacks of those famous DC events from the last few years that you "just had to buy"? They don't mean anything anymore. So basically they're worthless(continuity-wise that is) and you wasted your hard-earned money on something that won't likely be ever referenced to again.....except maybe 5-10 years down the line, or whenever Didio and Co. feel like declaring those events to have happened again.

How nice for all those loyal DC readers)and me) who bought those expensive TPBs.

So basically, Final Crisis, Infinite Crisis(which actually does deserve to be forgotten) maybe the 1st Crisis, 52, Blackest Night, Brightest Day, and Countdown no longer matter. Wow. And DC just suckered fans to "have to" buy BL and BD last year and the year before that respectively. For those poor people, I feel bad for you.

Not to mention Morrison's Batman epic storyline R.I.P. is also majorly affected, thus possibly making even that one moot as well. I wonder how Morrison personally feels about that? I'm sure the barrels full of money he's made helps, but it still has sting on a professional level.

Maybe he reads this quote by Elizabeth Bowen:
"Art is the only thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."
I will admit though, to possibly seeing Didio's view on this;(oh no Hell's frozen over!)
Like he said, this reboot is pretty much like the very 1st one back in 1985/6 w/ the 1st CRISIS.
The writers, artists, and editors all had to start continuity from scratch basically, and while that led to whole bunch of problems due to not everyone being on the same page, it also paved the way for Vertigo and other forms of progressive story-telling. So with really good books out there like Synder's Swamp Thing and Batman, and  Lemire's Animal Man, perhaps there's still hope for DC yet.
Still, it can't possibly feel good to those creators who worked on those events to see it "doesn't matter" anymore. Yes, the physical works are still out there to be enjoyed by all who own them, but that still doesn't soften the blow any less.


And now for your Zen moment of the day:

Some people just have it all don't they?

"Video killed the radio star"

Happy Hump Day people,

today's post is titled "Video killed the radio star, or in today's modern terms, Reality TV killed the Music channel.

Ah, MTV. What a difference 30 years makes huh?
You wouldn't know it by looking at us, but MTV and I were born 3 days apart, which makes us brothers/siblings from another mother....I think.

• Yessir, MTV was born Aug 1, 1981, and while I was born Aug 4, 1981.

• Like MTV, we both hooked up to machines by cables, cords, and plugs.
• Like MTV, we were both deemed "failures", and not given much hope to survive through the year.
• MTV's first weeks' progress were made public(but only if you could find it on your TV) featuring a non-stop,  24-hr marathon of Rod Stewart videos because they had nothing else to fill the time. My 1st few weeks weren't as newsworthy, but were eventful enough. Sadly MTV beats me though since they at least had Rod Stewart videos to look at. Hey stop laughing, Rod was the still the man back in '81.
• We both changed radically the day we turned 15. MTV fully embraced the Reality era before it even knew it existed, continuing to produce hit reality shows like "Real World" and "Road Rules". I discovered porn....lots of it. Thanks HBO!
• When MTV turned 19, Boy bands were all the rage, while all the Jonas Brothers and Justin Biebers of the world were still enjoying their nap times and juice boxes. When I turned 19, I graduated from High School and met the love of my life.....while occasionally missing those same nap times and juice boxes oddly enough.
• We were both officially legal when we turned 21, even though I know MTV probably got to drink alcohol before I did. Bitch. Not to mention I turned 21 on a Sunday, in a town that's a dry county on Sunday. MTV turned 21 on a Thrusday, thus got to drink before I did....yet again.
• MTV and I both turned the big 3-0 this year. We've both changed physically over the years; I've lost a little of the top and gained some in the middle, while MTV just looks younger and younger every year, but also loses something as valuable as my hair is to me:  actual music videos.

What happened MTV? You went from VJ's, Michael Jackson's Thriller, Madonna and make-shift game shows in the 80's to Extreme sports, Rap, the Real World, Beavis and Butt-head, Kurt Loader, Jesse and Matt Pinfield in the 90's, to uber craptastic boy bands, Brittany Spears, and Carson Daily in the 00's, to the present with hardly any music/music videos that are decent and and a shit-load of Reality TV that features pregnant teens, rich, young snobs that have chosen the Paris Hilton way of life, and New Jersey caricatures of Italians. WTH!? When did MTV become all about that, and less about the music?

Remember when MTV 2 was brand new? How that channel was supposed to be what MTV even back then, used to be? If you watch MTV 2 now, it's like MTV cloned itself, and now you have 2 channels that hardly show music anymore, just talking, if you can call it that.

Sad really. Oh MTV, how you've let yourself go.....
I'll check back with you when we both hit the big 4-0.

So there, that's the tale of two (almost, kinda')siblings that were born 3 days apart....

On a more serious note, please send your thoughts and prayers to those that were killed and/or wounded by a crazed gunman named  Eduardo Sencion at a Carson City, Nevada IHOP.  Included in the senseless killings were 3 National Guardsmen.

Humping around on Hump Day!

Hey bitches, it's Hump Day!!!!
I don't know how the hell the term ever came about....wait yes I do....I just looked it up on Wikipedia.org.

Here's the definition according to them:

The term alludes to the fact that Wednesday is the middle of the work week, meaning that one has made it "over the hump" towards the weekend.
 Or this from www.urbandictionary.com

Wednesday, or the hump of the week
The absolute BEST day of the week, the day of maximum hope that maybe, you might make it out of this week alive. A particularly good hump day can last you the rest of the week, and by Doomday morning (Monday) you survive by anticipating hump day. Nothing goes wrong on hump day

Most other days can be defined by hump day. Tuesday is the day before hump day. Thursday is one day after hump day. Except Friday is WOOOH!!! FREEDOM!!! Day, Saturday is Mostly Hungover day, and Sunday is PreDoom day.

Hump day has nothing to do with sex. Unless one wants it to. I like to declare the existence of hump day just to see people's faces. Usually being conservative and all

"Do you know what the best thing about Tuesdays are? Its the day before Hump Day!"
"What's hump day?"
"It's the hump of the week!!"
(they all shake their heads in pity)

Exactly. So when did it become perverted and twisted around?  Anways, here's some Hump Day pics to amuse you all with. Feel free to steal 'em, 'cause you know I did.

There, did you get it all out of your system by now? Good.

By the way, with my 30th birthday less than a month away, I recently found this cool little 'site. Thanks to http://siskoid.blogspot.com/ you can go to here: http://www.dcindexes.com/, and find what comic(s) came out on the day of your birthday. Just plug in the month and year you were born, and voila! Cool huh?
I chose Amazing Spider-Man#222, because I collected Spider-Man titles when I was starting out in comics, and because visually, one of my favorite villains Speed Demon re-debuted here.

Enjoy the middle/hump of the week.....until next time bitches.......