It is 1986 and my father has just bought home that weeks latest comics. Amongst them is the eagerly awaited Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons interpretation of the superhero archetype, the Watchmen . This is one year after the end of the Silver Age of comics, heralded by the death of its first champion, the Barry Allen incarnation of the Flash in 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths . It is the dawn of what some...

*wonders why I can now hear the dogs howling at the kennel across the street* So now I'm 39. One year away from being 4-0. Honestly? I don't feel almost 40. I know I don't act almost 40. Or at least I don't act like all of the other almost 40 people I know.  I'm not sure what that says about me and my maturity (Or lack of) but there you go. I had a nice quiet day - with dinner & pressies from mom...

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Merry Christmas, y'all.  May there be peace on earth, good will to men, and joy all around whether they celebrate this particular holiday or not. And happy birthday, to both melodyclark   and the man upstairs.

I wish all my flist the best holiday season of all and wishes for 2009 to be a wonderful year for all of you. Thank you to slipperieslope and discord26 for their virtual gifts. Happy birthday to my spiritual trip, melodyclark and to my RL twin alynt May you both have the best birthday ever. Thanks to all of you for your support and love this past year. Hugs to...

The Reasonable Man Adapts Himself To The World; The Unreasonable One Persists In Trying To Adapt the World To Himself. Therefore, All Progress Depends On The Unreasonable Man.* Someone on my flist is going through a crisis of writing, and is brave enough to write about it in the semi-public forum of her flist, asking for feedback not on her writing itself, but on her feelings, reactions--all...