Miscellaneous Monday Musings

November 14th, 2005

Filed under: Books, Comics, General, TV

  • I finally saw that television commercial for the Kawasaki Ninja agin. The tagline is “It’s hard to stay unnoticed.” That pretty much contradicts the whole idea of “ninja.”
  • As an example of Kyle Busch saying stupid things:
    Interviewed after yesterday’s race, Busch smugly stated that he beat Greg Biffle again (Biffle finished second to Busch in both of Busch’s wins) and that maybe someday Biffle would be able to beat him. He seems to have forgotten that Biffle has won 5 races this season, so by definition, Biffle has already beaten him five times.
  • Busch first caught my attention last year when he was still a driver in the Busch Series. He was proud that he had his blood type embroidered on his uniform in case there was a crash. Sorry Kyle, but it doesn’t work that way. If there’s an accident, the odds are that your clothes will be cut away long before anyone thinks to look there for your blood type. And why would they look there in the first place? Anyway, why would the hospital trust what your clothes say anyway? In an emergency they’re going to run Type O blood until the Type and Cross comes back.
  • Two thumbs up for the Hillary Duff as Anne Frank sketch on Robot Chicken. That was hilarious.
  • I’ve been enjoying MonkeyBrain Books recently. I just finished Matt Rossi’s (of Howling Curmudgeons fame) book Things That Never Were (two thumbs up) and Jess Nevin’s The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana just arrived in the mail today and I look forward to digging into the impressive looking hardback.
  • Pet peeve of the day: website that automatically start playing sound files. And it’s never ever good music.
  • Was the recent Green Arrow #53 the first mention of an experimental serum being involved in the origin of Solomon Grundy, or had that unfortunate ret-con been mentioned before?

4 Responses to “ Miscellaneous Monday Musings ”

  1. GruntDoc
    November 15th, 2005 at 3:13 am

    Although it amy be apocryphal, I recall a study that said 10% of the GI blood types on their dog tags were wrong (this was some time ago). I wouldn’t transfuse based on an external marking, and the blood bank won’t release any but Oneg until they’ve done the work themselves.

    I think racers do this (label blood types) for purely psychological reasons: this is dangerous, see? My blood type is on my helmet to prove it!

  2. Jess Nevins
    November 15th, 2005 at 7:30 am

    Thanks for buying the book! I hope you enjoy it.

  3. M
    November 15th, 2005 at 12:09 pm

    ‘website’s that automatically start playing sound files’

    Mega peev.

    I’ll have to check out the robot chicken thing.

  4. Shane
    November 16th, 2005 at 2:47 pm

    I loved Matt’s book. I’m hoping a new one is coming soon.

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