You may or may not have noticed a couple of post have disappeared. The subject of the posts are/were personal in nature. These posts were sent to my dead post file. I’m not one to totally throw out stuff I have written. Be it good or bad.

What else? I got my money from the feds. It got direct deposited into my checking account. I filed on-line for the first time and I was a little nervous about how it would work. But it went off without a hitch. Which is really cool because now I can go and get the Family Guy Seasons 1 & 2 DVD.

The funny thing about the way my website runs is that I keep a statistic file on all of the visitors that come here. I happened to go through my logs and was surprised at what I found.

Did you realize that when you send an e-mail that the ip address of the sender is recorded in the e-mail? No? Well it does. So I go and cross reference the e-mail ip with the ip’s of visitors. I was surprised I admit to find that you have come by now and then to take a look. I guess I shouldn’t be all that surprised.

It’s been a long time and I would be lying if I said I haven’t wondered how you were doing. I also wonder if my e-mail to came off to eager. I hope you have been doing well.

Well enough of my musing, I have to run over to Troy’s for a late Easter dinner.

So my four days off came and went. I’m not off again until Friday. I get Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday off. The four days on four days off is ok. I like the four days off more than the four days on.

I got my Planetside disks yesterday. I installed and patched just to find that the servers were down. As soon as I can get into the game I will throw up some screens and some details on the game. Some of the guys in the forum have mentioned it’s kind of like Tribes, so if you liked that game you may like Planetside.

Other than that not much is going on. It’s been pretty quiet as of late. Well I got to get back to my boring job.

I was on my way to work last night and listening to Billy Joel. The tape was Glass Houses, which has been in the tape deck for almost three years. And yeah my musical taste are not that broad.

So I’m driving along to work and singing to Mr. Joel as I go. It seems some how while I was driving I bumped my cell phone and it calls my best friend Troy at home. And remember this is around 9:46 pm according to my phones call log.

So Troy and his wife listen to me on their answering machine for bit as I sing along with Billy Joel. I get to the Jiffy Stop and go in for smokes. I hear my cell phone ring and answer it as I’m paying for my smokes.

Troy asks if I had been singing to Billy Joel in my car. It kind of trips me out because I’m thinking how in the hell does he know that? Then he tells me.

I’m a little afraid to go over to his house now, because I know I’m going to hear the answering machine message.

Yeah I’ve been quiet as of late. Hasn’t been much going on here in my neck of the woods.

Anyone going to go see the new X-Men movie this friday? I work friday night so I won’t see it till saturday or sunday. I hope it is better than that Daredevil piece of shit.

Well that’s enough for me.

This is too funny. I saw it and laughed that you poor bastard laugh. And then I felt really sorry for this guy. Click the first screen of this geek Jedi to see the original movie. The second movie has music and saber special effects.

I saw this somewhere and couldn’t find it again. So props to whoever got this out here on the net.

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I’ve seen the second X-Men movie twice now. I have been holding off on commenting for a reason I really couldn’t identify. But after going through some of my old comics I realized what it was. It was a certain deja vu I felt seeing the movie. I guess it shouldn’t come to anyones surprise that the new X-Men movie is not an original idea. God Loves, Man Kills (pictured below) was Marvel Graphic Novel number 5.

It was published back in 1982 and it and the X2 movie share the same basic plot and characters. William Stryker, his plot against the mutants, making his own Cerebro, Magneto and the X-Men teaming up is all there.

The story is just broken down to it’s simplest form. Simplified for the non X-Men fans. But it’s pretty much the same. Except it’s not. It’s really a watered down version of a groundbreaking comic story.

Let’s take Stryker for example. The movie Stryker hatred for muties is fueled by the fact he had a son that was a mutant. Yeah that’s pretty good motivation. Throw in the bit about how he sent the kid to Xavier’s mutant school adds to the movie Strykers dislike of mutants.

But in the comic the character of Stryker is so much more. This Stryker also had a child that was a mutant. But his reaction to the child was that it was a monster and the comic Stryker killed his child. But that wasn’t enough. The comic Stryker also kills his wife because he had decided it was her fault for bringing the monster into this world.

Now you have a good start for the comic Stryker going here. But it gets better. The comic Stryker finds religion and truly believes that all mutants are the spawns of satan. So the comic Stryker sets up a church to start a crusade against the worlds mutants.

All of the religious ideas are stripped from the movie. And it hurts the movie Strykers character. The movie Stryker is a hollow movie badguy and nothing more. It’s a shame in a way because the comic Stryker was just a guy doing what he believed was right. Sure he was a madman but it worked better.

The rest of it was pretty much the same. But it’s all mixed together with other X-Men stories. Don’t get me wrong, I liked the second X-Men movie. You can’t take a comic book story and translate it into a movie. Some of the ideas and plots have to be dropped or changed to suit the fickle movie going audience.

And I think that has to be done, I really do. If the third movie is going to cover the whole Phoenix story it has to be taken a carefully look at and cuts and changes need to be made to make it a non comic fan friendly movie.

In the end if you like the second movie and you want to experience this story the way it was meant to be go to your local comic book store and look for the just republished God Loves, Man Kills.

Nuff Said.