5) The Borgata casino in Atlantic City is pretty cool. More like a glitzy Vegas casino than those other gross, crowded Boardwalk ones. Plus, the table minimums were fairly reasonable for AC... $10 blackjack when I walked in at 3 p.m. on a Friday, and it didn't go up to $15 until about 6 p.m. I was worried it would be all quarters all the time.
4) $2 upper-level tickets at Shea Stadium are the way to go. I'm a big fan. (Only in NYC: the seven-year-old kid next to me yelling, "Right fielder, you suck!")
3) Why would you intentionally walk Randall Simon, who's hitting about .115 and is 0-2 with a GDP, to load the bases and get to Craig Wilson, who's hitting .396 and already has a home run? Predictably, it didn't work out so well. Silly, silly Mets.
2) Driving in New York is actually not as terrifying as people make it out to be. Granted, everything you know about traffic laws is wrong and should be ignored, and it's pretty much every man for himself as far as merging and changing lanes goes. But it's kind of fun gunning it in order to outrun a bus to the intersection, and then cursing out the pedestrians who took too long crossing the street.
1) About Red Sonja...
Exactly what good is that armor supposed to do? Do chain mail bra and panties adequately offer the protection today's heroine needs in the cutthroat fantasy world of sword and sorcery? I say thee nay. But somehow I was able to look past that and enjoy the back issues I picked up at the flea market anyway.
Tell that to Magnus, Mini-Skirt Fighter. You can distract future robots and evil wizards alike as long as you showcase your shapely, hairless legs.
Ew, Magnus. I know the mini was popular back then, but... hm. Did I really need to know whether the carpet matched the drapes?
andrew, who are all these people reading and writing on your "blog"?
ps- i liked the old format WAY better.
Yes, tell me more about these... "blogs," you say?
Indeed.
You know they're coming out with a Red Sonja movie, allegedly? Least I think I read that somewhere. James I didn't know you were a comics guy too.
Craig Wilson is the man, by the way. He's in one of my fantasy football leagues. A cool guy who's knocking the shit out of the ball.
*Another* Red Sonja movie? Like the Brigitte Nielsen one wasn't bad enough?
(And yes, I loves me some comics. And Andrew has twice as many as I do. Because he's twice as nerdy.)
OK, I let my typing fingers get ahead of the facts.
Not Red Sonja. . . . Shanna The She Devil.
And not a movie. . . a new comic book for Marvel, done by Frank Cho. I think that's what got my wicked wheels a turnin'.
http://www.comicartmuseum.org/comicart/cal-display.asp?LowryMemberID=1944&LowryGalleryID=14764
So yeah, anyway. . . . I'll just shut up now. And have no fear, there are no more Red Sonja movies coming your way.