Tales from the Top Shelf: Hulk hate customizing!

What's up guys?

I just went to bleedingcool.com, where I usually go to get interesting comic news, and I came across the 1st 5 pages of Darwyn Cooke's Before the Watchmen#1.

Here's the link to those pages:
http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/06/05/the-first-five-pages-of-before-watchmen-by-darwyn-cooke/

I have to say, not only does the art look damn fine, but the way the story and narration is framed is very well done. Now I know most of you who have read this blog in the past, know I haven't been that kind towards the whole "Watchmen Sequel" business from DC, especially considering what a big fuck you this is to Alan Moore. That being said, I am changing my tune a little, only in the fact that as far as Cooke's contributions go, so far it looks good.

I don't know how the rest of the mini's will do, but I am intrigued by what Cooke's doing. I've always loved and appreciated his art, ever since first discovering him in the early 2000's. And of course I bought his awesome work and love letter to DC's Silver Age, The New Frontier.(although I need to get on the ball and buy the 1st Vol.) Hell, I even bought the New Frontier dvd movie because I liked this project so much.

So while I still think DC is blatantly dicking Moore over, and shamelessly putting this out to distract from how poor their sales for the NuDCU titles are doing(with the exception of GL, Batman, Aquaman, and JL), I realize perhaps I was being too quick to judge some of the creators involved. Perhaps they'll encourage new fans to check out the original. If they did, it's not like that'd be a bad thing......

On to my original work, here's a fresh new skit for you guys under my Tales from the Top Shelf series. It's a quick little ditty about the Hulk. Enjoy!

Spider-Man: "Hey Hulk, something I've been meaning to ask you for awhile."

Hulk: "Leave Hulk alone puny web-head!"

Spider-Man: "No man, it's cool, it's cool. I just wanna' know what's up with all that white stuff on your head?"

Daredevil: "What white stuff? I don't see any white stuff?"

Spider-Man: "That's because you're blind Matt, sheesh! You'd think a guy would remember being blind."

Hulk: Web-head no want to know; it embarrassing."

Spider-Man: "C'mon Hulkie, it can't be that bad."

Hulk: "Okay, Hulk tell. Puny human try to customize Hulk into a Solomon Grundy figure, but not finish job. He put weird white liquid into Hulk's hair, turning it white. Then puny human color in Hulk's blue pants with black magic marker, making Hulk's pants a messy black. But puny human no finish job, and now Hulk look like hot mess."

Spider-Man: "Oh my god that's freaking hilarious! Aha haha ahahahaha. Oh man, that explains the dirty looks the Legion of Doom have been giving us from the bottom shelf though. Ha ha ha ha ha!"

Black Spider-Man: "Oh man this isn't going to end well for Pete. He shouldn't be laughing at Hulk like that. Hulk's gonna' fuck him up for this."

Daredevil: "Yeah, this isn't going to end well for Peter. I need to get the hell of here once I find my cane."

Captain Marvel: "Just keep perfectly still Mar-Vel or else that perverted publishing company that stole your last name will find you and kill you off again in a stupid crossover or story-line again. Hmm. But it is work. No, I'll stay still. Safer that way."

Hulk: "Why Web-head laugh at Hulk? Web-head think what puny human do to Hulk funny? Hulk show you what's funny! Hulk Smash!"

Spider-Man: "C'mon man, I wasn't laughing at you just the situation. Oh boy!`whistles`"

Daredevil: "Yeahhhh, I'm leaving before I get blood on newly washed uniform."

Black Spider-Man: "Yeahhhh, I'm leaving before I get Pete's blood all over my costume. I just got this thing washed, and blood does not come out easily."

What the Hulk said is true. In my own half-assed way I tried to make a custom Solomon Grundy out of the Gray Hulk that came from the ML Galactus wave. I put white-out in his hair, and used a permanent black marker to color in his pants. I even have an old torn-up coat from an old Toy Biz Mr. Fixit Hulk from the 90's to use for him. Unfortunately I got bored quickly, as I often times do when trying to be creative, and left poor Hulk like that. I don't know what to use to get the white-out out of his hair, so I guess he's stuck like that. Maybe I can still pretend he's Solomon Grundy anyways. That way, I'd have all of the Legion of Doom, except for Giganta, Black Manta, Cheetah, and Grodd.

Oh well........

Summerizing the California Home

 Summer is almost here and school will be over! It seems things really ramped up in May and I cannot wait for some downtime to devote to my family and the home. I did order a few things to kick off some of the home decor changes I am going to try during the break. I'm ready to transition to that California beachy cottage vibe. We're going to paint the living room and dining area a white and add natural fiber rugs, seating and nautical stripes for accents. I've had fun pining images to my California Style board on Pinterest. Check out some of the ideas by clicking here or my Pinterest link on this page. Here's a few images from it and below them what I've started here at home.

Country Living

davidmichaelmiller.com

Peter Dunham in Architectural Digest

houzz.com

House Beautiful

It's all about natural wood, whites, stripes, and black accents with a little blue mixed in.



For my home, I found this sign on sale at Pottery Barn and I'm liking the distressed look of it:

I bought this ikat pillow at Pottery Barn too.

I'm most excited about this seagrass rug from Pottery Barn. Loving it. It gives the whole room a fresh  look. I'm going to order one for my dining room too. The quality of this rug is excellent for the price and seagrass is much easier to clean and wear than sisal.

Then, I threw these two together on my family room white couch.

I added these zebra pillows on my living room couch. Can a girl have too much zebra? It just looks so fun and fresh.

I'm thinking of ditching my dining chairs and adding something woven like these below.

I had to add my beach sticks to the umbrella stand again and display my favorite summer books:

The vintage edition of this book above. I scored it at my grandmother's church tag sale. And below, decorator Kathryn Ireland's fun summer book of entertaining, decorating and eating. I also love pool books. They get me in the summer frame of mind displayed for the season.

I like the idea of adding more burlap accessories, bamboo lanterns or hurricane lamps, and trays in brights to punch it all up and add a little color. You can see my living room above could use a little brightening. It's all a bit beige and I think the white walls will help bring that fresh beachy look.

 Love this tray I found at TJ Maxx for more blue

Next up, to add some lightness and to get more curb appeal on my porch, (with very little to work with), I removed an old black and gold address plaque and ordered this round white one. I brought out these white lanterns from the backyard to match my white mailbox and garage door. Then I chucked out these zebra pillows on my bench. Recently I bought these dome boxwoods and herbs and tried to create a French potager look on the front stoop. Still trying to get that moldy look on the pots! The door is a deep blue.

  This isn't decor, but check out my kangaroo plant below. I thought he was a goner about a month ago! This plant brings all the hummingbirds to my window in the morning! A little TLC and he is back...

I bought this little sculpture of a ball for the garden above my pool. Love the happy look - like an errant beach ball.

 

 My buddy Marlo spying birds through the front window and furring the couch up. (Black cats + white furniture = not good.)  Oh well. Love these varmints.

Are you making any changes to your home for summer?

xo

Kim

Short-Shots 2:Attack of the Son of Short-Shot....

Hey People,
having a bitch of a time with my internet, so excuse the delays.

I've had a hell of a weekend, and not the good kind of hell either! I won't bore you guys with the details, because if you wanted to hear/read someone moping about how unfair life is, you'd simply listen to an emo music channel or something. Suffice to say, life isn't and leave it at that.

Someone said "Life is a shit sandwich sometimes, and we all have to take a big bite and swallow." Truer words have never been spoken.

But enough with all that, you came here for the funny(I hope), so let's get to it.

The 1st short skit features the two Batmen I have, the Detective version, and the GA version. I've been wanting to do this particular skit for awhile, but just now got off my lazy ass to make it. Enjoy.

Batman: "Time for bed young man. You have to hit the books hard in the morning, plus your early morning workout."

Robin: "Awwww, but Bruuuce. I don't want to go to bed early. I think I'm old enough to stay up to 10:00pm now, don't you think?"

Batman: "You heard me Dick. Time for bed."

Robin: "Gosh darnnit! Green Arrow lets Roy stay up late."

Batman: "And that's why Roy's doing so well now as a drooling, drugged-up idiot."

Robin: "You're a drooling idiot!"

Batman: "What was that?"

Robin: "Nothing"

GA Batman: "Bruce, it's way past your bedtime young man. "

Batman: "Awwww, but daaaaaad. You said I could stay up late tonight!"

GA Batman: "No buts young man, or else I'll spank yours. Off to bed with you now."

Robin: "Ha ha. You have to go to bed early too."

Batman: "Shut it Dick!"

And finally, here's a skit Dan can get behind, mostly because it's filled with his two favorite fellow Aussies:

Captain Boomerang: "Oi ya' wallaby-lovin', fire-startin' Billy. How the hell are ya'?"

Pyro: "Well if it isn't my favorite bludgerin' bluey? How are ya' ya' damn bogan you? Going to chuck a sickie are ya?"

-Now Imagine furbies, but speaking Austrailan. Yes, it's still gibberish you can't understand. But it's worse. It's with an accent. That's these two.

Cap'n Boomerang: "Come on ya' cockie, let's go out for a coldie."

Pyro: "Can we go to the nearby Outback Steakhouse you reckon?"

Cap'n Boomerang: "Now why would wanna' go to that piss-poor place you silly dag you? They ain't even a proper dinkin Australian restaurant."

Pyro: "I know. That's why I want to go there and burn the whole place to the ground, right along with all those stupid bloody gits! I'll cock a fat watching those bloody yanks burn to death. Well that and the bloomin onion. Amazing appetizer it is."

Cap'n Boomerang: "That's what I like about you Pyro ya' crazy dunny rat. You're always good for a laugh. But now that you mention it, a bloomin' onion and a right mug of Fosters' is right what the doctor ordered."

Both men singing at the same time:

"We come from the land down under. Where women glow and men plunder? 

Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? 
You better run, you better take cover." 

And no, I didn't cock a fat when I thought of you Dan. Damn you Aussies have some weird fucking slang! I swear man......