Lightsabers and Lollipops

YOU'VE BEEN GOING TO C.I.Y. HOW LONG????



so yes,i will be at CIY this week, recruiting more spacemanrocks.com dancers.

i hope 36 cans of Mountain Dew will be enough....

for the first day.



ENTOURAGE!

gah! gigantic hot dog! blurry picture! our prices are.. INSANE!!!

eating a whole box of Apple Jacks by yourself will turn your poop green for days.

so now you know.

and yet, she didn't win.... there is no justice.



Poison Ivy pic number 2.

so i sat next to Poison Ivy while watching one of the best comic book movies ever! (and i've seen Iron Man and 300) now my leg is all itchy and i have the urge to rob banks and donate the money to greenpeace. luckily, i'm too tired cuz i only got 2 hours of sleep after going to a 2 hour plus movie at 12:01 A.M.! on a thursday night... or friday morning if you feel like being a jerkface and correcting me. nyeh.

but you know a movie is great when you can't help but think about it all day long afterwards. especially the part where Joker makes the pencil disappear.

so much for the joy buzzer...

it was a beautiful, dark film.

Happy Dark Knight Day Everybody!



Poison Ivy pic number 1.

me and this lady talked about how hard it was to find green stockings so she went with green fish nets instead.

no. i'm not gay.

next year, Ginger will have to take more pictures vertically. so you see what i'm sayin'.

still! she did a much better job than i do at taking pictures.
just ask john. then stand back, cuz it's a good rant.
then you should ask him why he thought Ebenezer Scrooge was right in the first place.
and since i'm reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad, i understand his argument even more.

snoogans.

friends, lemme tall ya about a new (old) miracle in my life called "Audio Books."
up to this point i've always considered them cheating just a little bit. they were great for car trips to Colorado or seminars that were too boring for me to read.
plus, allow me to get somewhat judgmental here, working in a bookstore the customers that bought audiobooks were usually those who i'm pretty sure couldn't read (they seemed unedjumacated, remember i'm being judgmental here) and the elderly who sadly can't see enough to see the print anymore. (which i think stinks, cuz i've already previously stated that you should get prizes and superpowers for getting older.)
anyway, i better stop before you start throwing rotten vegetables at the stage.
"Don't you judge me, Earl."
but here's the part where i turned over a new leaf.
let's just state the sad fact that i, Spacey, am a slow reader.
i've never been accused at being fast at anything but eating. no, not even that you people with dirty little minds. you know who you are.
it's always been frustrating wanting to read every stinkin book i get my hands on but taking like 2 weeks or more to get through one novel.
what's even more frustrating is being married to a woman who can read a book overnight or faster. it got to the point where i would give wifey a book i was semi-interested in and have her read it and tell me if it was worth my time.
but lately i haven't even been able to focus on books i really do want to read. i can't get comfy reading sitting down cuz of my height so i end up lounging or even laying down. i would get through 2 pages and find myself unconscious with my face on the open pages.
now i have been reading a lot of comic books lately. with the superhero movie boom it kind of pays to be a nerd lately. but here' where i had a rude awakening. there was an older lady who was buying books at my store (imagine that) and she and i got into a jovial conversation about always wanting to read more than we had time for. and she asked me politely what books i read. not being a person who knows when to lie i told her that i have been mainly reading comics. you would have thought a glass wall just lowered in between us. she took a slight step back and like that, the conversation was over with the killing word coming out of her mouth being just a slight, "oh."
she paid for her books and gave the impression that she was walking away slowly from a special needs person with violent tendencies who forgot to wear his helmet that day.
i usually don't let people get to me, but that just hurt.
but it was a good kick in the face that made me want to continue to sharpen my mind. lately, i could feel my brain starting to atrophy. and that's bad. i've always a got a book, or two or three with a bookmark in them. but i haven't been picking them up every night. usually, in the summer i'm so beat from my real job that i just collapse and watch mindless movies, some i've even seen before cuz i don't even wanna focus. that ain't gonna kill me, but overdosing on that will definitely kill my poor lil bwain. (it's workin already!) of course, working outside in the sun all day and breathing pool chemicals and drinking the water that comes out of the faucet in the town i live in can all be blamed for me getting dumberer.
so that brings us back to why i have discovered that audio books are what i need to survive.
i'm in my truck several hours of the workday, i'm pretty sure i can legally recieve my mail there. and i don't know why it took so long to dawn on me that i could have been using that time to have someone read to me. i've listened to several Star Wars books (shut up! i like Star Wars! don't you judge me!) some Neil Gaiman, Max Brooks, Frank Peretti and the DaVinci Code.
(i understand now why the religious people went so nuts about it, i wasn't too impressed. it took 16 hours for someone else to read it to me. it would have taken me forever. i'm with Donita, don't believe the hype.)
i just finished an awesome book that was right up my alley, called "Soon I will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. i highly recommend it to anyone who has ever been into superhero lore.
it humanizes the characters. plus it made me laugh out loud a couple of times.

which made me realize an idea for a good tangent that i was gonna write as a stand alone entry:
if i was in the comic book world i would hate to be a cyborg. here's the part that would bite; like say 50% or so of your body is robotic and especially computerized. now look at the computer you have right now. how often does a program, operating system or general piece of hardware become obsolete? i know every time i wanna do something new with my computer that i have to buy at least three new components from three different places, often somehow involving a return or exchange. now imagine that's part of your body. sure, your left arm may shoot sonic waves and your right leg becomes a machine gun. but what happens when they no longer make your particular brand of ammo or speaker system? worse yet, what happens when they no longer sell the kind of adapter for your charger? (i thought about this part when i got a new cell phone. and how nobody i know can share a car charger. making everything a different size and shape is brilliant and evil.)
so yeah, i think being a cyborg would suck. especially when the warranty runs out.

aaaand we're back. i think one of the best things to come out of the audio book experience is that it keeps me from talking to myself while driving. mostly.
i really need to stop doing that, people already think i'm psycho cuz i like to read magazine sized books with colorful illustrations in them. it's where i learn all my big words.

support your local library, kids.










and what is trans fat?

absolutely nothing like that dream i had.



go ahead. make a caption for this in the comment section. i dare ya. mine are all mean. so be kind. ...unless it's funny.

oh. and if you get any trouble from "the man" trying to make a comment, just be anonymous like me. i can't even sign in to make comments on my own stinkin website. i know it's frustrating, but i believe in you.


don't touch my stuff.

It's Pimp Venom!

say it with me...


SOULFUL.

and then i yelled, "DONT TOUCH!" at the comedian.

i thought i was helping out his act but i think i really freaked him out.

IT'S GOJIRA!!! WE MUST FLEE!!!!

i ran to take this picture.
i mean, i ran.
i don't know if i knocked Ginger out of the way to get to this picture
but i would have.
which is not nice considering she was my photographer that day.
but this is the first person i have ever seen dress up in a C-3PO costume that isn't getting paid by Disney or Lucas to do so.
i've got a hundred pics with stormtroopers, don't even bother with them anymore.
although Ginger and her brother did make a game out of counting any kind of stormtrooper costume they could find.
although they did count a tie pilot and i'm pretty sure they counted the same snowtrooper twice (i got snapped at for pointing that out) i believe the number ended up in the 20's.
oh, and they counted a kid as a whole one, i thought he would only count as half.
good times.



oh, and here's a pic of Ginger's lil brudda. (who got a lotta compliments on the legend of Zelda prop he was wearing. Zelda fans are Called Fozzies, as in Friends of Zelda. ...and you thought you weren't gonna learn anything new today.)

look.
all i said was that AVP was one of the worst movies i've ever seen, and i've seen Manos: the hands of fate.
i could see where he would be offended.
maybe he wasn't cast into the sequel: AVP Requiem
which actually, in my humble opinion, made up for the first one's suckiness.
or maybe it was because i made fun of his fluorescent orange skin, saying that he was probably one the first predators to get noticed and killed.
"wait guys! time out! my invisibility thingie ain't workin! aaaaaagh!" thud.

but danny glover rocked in Predator 2

and the Germans love David Hasselhoff.