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Another on of those weekends.....

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14:30 / 13.04.02

that's a shame sfd, but i wish you well in your self-publishing endeavors. keep us updated, i hear that self-pub can be a bitch.

trij,how many fake dead mexicans have been cooking your food?

14:33 / 13.04.02

Well if the workers at some of the places I've been to are any indication; quite a few. I mean they stumble about, have glassy eyes, and communicate with moans, groans and other undead sounds.

15:13 / 13.04.02

trij, if i ever have the means to make a zombie flick, rest assured that your last post will be incorporated in some way, with full credit given to you, of course.

and maybe they're just stoned.

16:51 / 13.04.02

Wish I was.
The day is rainy and slow. Though I've a couple of "guaranteed" sales coming in today, so that makes things a little more palatable.
I realized today that I have people who come in here and are actually interested in my opinions on various things to do with comics, books and gaming. This is odd. I wonder if they just assume that I'll have well-formed ones because I own this store. Doesn't really mean that I know more about it than anyone else. But check it out, I got credibility. Now if I could get some credit, everything would be just peachy.

There appear to be a lot more people here than usual. How exciting.

Evil.

17:01 / 13.04.02

i notice that the owners/employees of any comic stores i habit are always being solicited for opinions etc. i think that it's a form of human outreach, being that most people don't publicly discuss role-playing/sequential art. the comic store guy is believed to be the one person who sympathises the geek.

17:02 / 13.04.02

Then we've got you all fooled.

Bwahahahahahaaaaaaaa!

Evil. (Evil.)

17:07 / 13.04.02

You mean the owners of comic book shops don't care who'd win in a fight between Optimus Prime and Voltron? Bu...but they seem so sincere.

17:08 / 13.04.02

egads man! do you know what yer saying!? geeks nerds and dweebs worldwide will now have to rethink describing all of their inane thoughts about superman to the comic store guy! who will they turn to?!

Will SOMEBODY please think of the children!!

17:27 / 13.04.02

I'm at work, too. had to fix some problems with some computers in the office. Which is OK because I'm using this time to also print my book so I can send it away

Also enjoying loud music (mogwai, sigur ros, mia doi todd, sonic youth, univers zero). I mean, really loud. Alone in the office rules.
I'm feeling a little bit hungry and I'm a little bit sad because my girlfriend isn't showing up on the messenger thingy (she leaves a little bit far and I can't see her as often as I'd like to).
There's a comics shop (where I buy most of my comics) in the same story as my office, and on saturdays they promote card games duels, so when I came here this morning there were dozens of kids and beards playing on the floor, had to make my way with a cane. They're still here, by the way.

I might be leaving soon.
Be in peace all of you, guys.

17:44 / 13.04.02

More victims fall to Captain Evil, scourge of comic stores.

And Optimus would win sooooo easily. NOt only does he have the Creation Matrix backing him up, but he's the ultimate strategist, where Voltron's just 5 kids in big robots. Well, depending on which version of Voltron we're talking about.....

Evil.

17:51 / 13.04.02

I think this may be a silly question, and I poked about the Policy a bit, but where is the ignore button located?

Evil.

17:55 / 13.04.02

Click on somebody's name. You'll be taken to their profile. At the end you'll see an option to ignore the person for a week.

18:00 / 13.04.02

well, voltron may be 5 dopey kids, but that version rocks the one powered by hundreds of aliens. how the hell did the chain of command work there anyway? couldn't the 5 seperate robots just ambush optimus in truck form? why am i arguing this?! and how do the go-bots rank in this 80's bot war?

19:27 / 13.04.02

boy, this revival died quickly. didn't know you folks were so disgusted by go-bots.

19:31 / 13.04.02

Its not disgust. All I know about GoBots is that Leader-1 was a jet and the leader of the good guys. The leader of the bad guys was a motorcycle. I do know that Hasbro bought the rights to GoBots awhile back, so that's why one of the little transformers that comes with the Megatron figure from Transformers: Armada is called Leader-1.

19:33 / 13.04.02

It is still raining.
I am still Evil.
So you fear me weak mortals?

Evil.
(See, I'm Evil.)

19:37 / 13.04.02

It's been raining off and on here. It'll start raining really hard for like 5 minutes and then the sun will come out and dry the rain and it'll start raining again. Its a bit weird.

Are you really evil? Can you take on the heroic Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future?

19:50 / 13.04.02

okay "capt evil" (chuckle), all dark and mysterious watching it rain and destroying the egos of your customers (chuckle once more), we (haw) fear and respect your "evilness" (guffaw). oh i can't take it anymore! take off those black jeans and give us zoom back, you bastard! don't make jesus kick your ass!

and don't look now, but some kid just bent the corners of ultimate spider-man #19 and is trying to put it back on the shelf. sigh. go. be evil.

20:07 / 13.04.02

If you must know, I sold out of USM #19 (that's comic store owner jargon for "Ultimate Spider-Man #19) weeks ago, so you must be seeing things.

I'll tell you all a secret. Underneath the EVIL, I'm still plain old Zoom. I might let him back out ot play one day, but Captain Evil needs to flex his muscles, stretch his wings, and myriad other cliches.

It is still pissing down here, as it has been all day. For some reason it's not keeping the customers away, which is just all good.

Hey, without provoling anyone's wrath, how on earth did The Knowledge get back on the board? Does anyone know? I mean, I know 90% of us are just going to ignore him this time around, but I thought he was just gone. Oh, nevermind. I don't want to clutter up this nice little conversation with shit-flinging. Enough of that yesterday.

So, anyone wanna show me any dance steps? How are the kids boogying these days? I haven't stepped foot in a club for years, and I'm dancing my ass off tonight.

Evil. (Zoom.)

20:09 / 13.04.02

here's how you do the squatting dog shuffle (watch closely)

hah! hoo hah hah! step bitch! hah hoo!

20:10 / 13.04.02

Oh the old stuff is back in. You know the robot and all that. All the kids are doin' it.

20:11 / 13.04.02

have you ever heard of the charleston? big. really big.

20:50 / 13.04.02

You guys are cruel. Is it any wonder I'm EVIL now?

Evil.

20:52 / 13.04.02

look look! he's slowly reverting! let's all beam happy jesus bunny thoughts to zoom and do away with his menacing facade!

20:56 / 13.04.02

Ok. Happy Bunny Thoughts away!

20:57 / 13.04.02

I'm not cruel. I just have no experience with clubs. We don't have clubs here. We have a bunch of bars and a strip joint.

20:57 / 13.04.02

"Happy Jesus Bunny Thoughts"?

Are you mad?

All that will do will bring the coming of "Evil Captain Zoom with Razor Punch Action". You don't want that happening. Trust me.

Hey, I just got a phone call and two of my eBay auctions just sold, just like that. I love making the money. And it happens so rarely.

Evil Zoom.

21:00 / 13.04.02

Razor punch action? Is that anything like "sparking power he-man"?

21:02 / 13.04.02

He fell beneath my onslaught.
(Psst. I'm real. He's a toy.)

(Well, that and "Sparking Power"? WTF?)

(And I don't really know what a razor fist is. It just sounded, well, EVIL!!!!)

Evil Zoom.

21:03 / 13.04.02

And hey, is anyone picturing me with a goatee, like Evil Spock from Star Trek? Well, stop it. You'll have to picture me with a nice clean chin, 'cause it's good Zoom that has the beard. I am only here to mess with your heads.

Evil Zoom.

21:05 / 13.04.02

I don't think it was sparking power, but it was something just as silly. Blast Punch He-man perhaps? All I know is he-man wore an orange vest backpack thing and you put caps in him and he'd make a noise like a capgun.

He-man's real. Didn't you see the He-man movie? Dolph Lundren (sp?) is He-man.

I guess a razor fist could be like those razor blades Molly from Neuromancer has.

21:07 / 13.04.02

oh my god! the world's gone topsy-turvy!!

and i am cruel. but i'm cruel in a loving manner (awwww).
good luck dancin' btw. remember elaine's dance from "seinfeld"?

21:09 / 13.04.02

godamnit! i hate it when others post while i'm "formulating" a "response." then my posts look out of place. that toy was cool tho (childish laughter).

21:28 / 13.04.02

One half hour and counting till I shed my Evil armour and become Dancing Captain Zoom. Who knows? Perhaps he shall infiltrate my current Evil incarnation and dance around the board.

Perhaps I have taken this whole thing far too far, and I am a complete goit.

It's well after ten in the UK. Mayhap many of our brethren are pissed to the gills by now. C'mon, Utopia, it's after 6. Where's the drinks?

Evil Zoom. (with Dancing tendencies)

21:32 / 13.04.02

Pissed to the gills? I wish I had gills. Then I could swim around in the water like a little fishie, floating freely until some malignant fisherman hooked me on his nastily barbed hook.

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