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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Comics, Conventions, gubbament and other things.
Ok so lots have been going on for me. Back into the comic scene 2 weeks ago and attended my first convention in 20 years. Boy have things changed. Met a wide variety of people, made some new friends and met a few artists. What is interesting was the day of the convention I was getting out of the hospital after having a pancreatic attack. Not good. Need to really work on my health stuff. Turned 42 and even though I have lost a ton of weight, (looooooking good mahn!), my cholesterol and some other crap is through the roof. Dunno... don't want to live a life on drugs but what can you do? Walking heart attack and all that.
Anyways, those 3 days were a blast. Cracked open my old collection and couldn't believe what I had put away in 20 years. 12 cent fantastic fours, Amazing spiderman and the like. Decided to go through them all and sort and clean up the collection with a few fresh bags and backing boards. Also picked up some new issues to check out the new artists and some of the new story lines. The stuff now is so incredibly expensive. You're talking 3-10 smackers and issue and not to mention varying story lines and variant covers. Expensive hobby. At least it can be. Might toy with a few subscriptions just to keep things interesting. But yeah its a whole new world here.
On a more serious note. Elections. I have told people in the past. I just don't vote for the president in the November Primes. It just doesn't make sense. For 1, we don't really elect a president the electoral college does it for you. Never understood why in today's day and age why this still happens. Personally I don't thing we really have a choice in the matter. Call it a conspiracy theory but I think the bigger powers out there pick your president for you. You're just in it for the dog and pony show. For the most part think about it... Really ?!? You are given two, for the most part, people to pick. You seriously think that we were going to get a 70+ year old man with a walking time bomb as a president? I seriously thing your setup to move a certain direction. Obama was going to be our president no matter what and you were pushed into the direction. They never wanted a close race and they pushed you away even further with picking Sarah Palin as your Vice President. You were pushed off a cliff hard into the direction of who the greater powers wanted as your president. It just seems to abundantly obvious. Anywho, In the long run going about my daily business, I dont think it really impacts me on the whole.
Now the issue about gas prices. Here is another one that gets me. We were at a national peak for a better part of 4-8 years between 3-5 bucks a gallon for gas. We see Bush on the way out and suddenly gas is going down to 50$ a barrel all of a sudden? What am I missing here? To think that Bush and his cronies didn't rob America for 8 years, you have to be a little naive to miss that one. Gas in my area all of a sudden is 1.75 a gallon? WTF?
Also this great national bailout of the economy. Why did this all of a sudden happen at the 3rd quarter of bushes last year? This is a proverbial money grab for all of bushes cronies again before Bush leaves office.
I'm sorry America but you were ripped off!!
Anyways, those 3 days were a blast. Cracked open my old collection and couldn't believe what I had put away in 20 years. 12 cent fantastic fours, Amazing spiderman and the like. Decided to go through them all and sort and clean up the collection with a few fresh bags and backing boards. Also picked up some new issues to check out the new artists and some of the new story lines. The stuff now is so incredibly expensive. You're talking 3-10 smackers and issue and not to mention varying story lines and variant covers. Expensive hobby. At least it can be. Might toy with a few subscriptions just to keep things interesting. But yeah its a whole new world here.
On a more serious note. Elections. I have told people in the past. I just don't vote for the president in the November Primes. It just doesn't make sense. For 1, we don't really elect a president the electoral college does it for you. Never understood why in today's day and age why this still happens. Personally I don't thing we really have a choice in the matter. Call it a conspiracy theory but I think the bigger powers out there pick your president for you. You're just in it for the dog and pony show. For the most part think about it... Really ?!? You are given two, for the most part, people to pick. You seriously think that we were going to get a 70+ year old man with a walking time bomb as a president? I seriously thing your setup to move a certain direction. Obama was going to be our president no matter what and you were pushed into the direction. They never wanted a close race and they pushed you away even further with picking Sarah Palin as your Vice President. You were pushed off a cliff hard into the direction of who the greater powers wanted as your president. It just seems to abundantly obvious. Anywho, In the long run going about my daily business, I dont think it really impacts me on the whole.
Now the issue about gas prices. Here is another one that gets me. We were at a national peak for a better part of 4-8 years between 3-5 bucks a gallon for gas. We see Bush on the way out and suddenly gas is going down to 50$ a barrel all of a sudden? What am I missing here? To think that Bush and his cronies didn't rob America for 8 years, you have to be a little naive to miss that one. Gas in my area all of a sudden is 1.75 a gallon? WTF?
Also this great national bailout of the economy. Why did this all of a sudden happen at the 3rd quarter of bushes last year? This is a proverbial money grab for all of bushes cronies again before Bush leaves office.
I'm sorry America but you were ripped off!!
posted by Jules at 7:38 AM
