So my mom has a leaky valve in her (been there for years) and doctors wanted to wait until it was necessary to fix. That day came on Sunday, she's having a valve replacement surgery tomorrow. It's weird week for me.
Yikes. That's a lot. Hang in there and I hope it all goes well.
Even though I rarely post anymore I do like that this forum is still around.
I kinda stopped reading most modern comics,plus wasn't getting along with a regular poster here. So decided to take a break.
About a month ago started checking the forums again. Saw that the poster I didn't care for rarely posts anymore.
Anyways.. just wanted to thank the geeks and the posters here for so much. When CGS started I had given up on comics. Started listening to the podcast when episode 6 came out. And from then until mid June 2007 I listened to every episode.
I suffer from bad Social Anxiety disorder. It got so bad that besides work I never left my home. Discovered that by putting episodes of CGS on my mp3 player and listening to them at a loud volume I could go out in public and not have panic attacks.
Then in the fall of 2007 had a string of bad luck. Went from working my dream job to having to quit the job for health reasons. And not long after that ended up moving from right outside Houston to a tiny town about an hour south of Jackson MS. And where I moved to there was no broadband internet. With it taking up to 6 hours to download an episode of CGS,I was having to be very picky about what episodes I downloaded.
Hearing about all the fun the geeks and others were having going to cons I decided to try going to a con again. So in 2009 ,for the first time since 1995, I went to CoastCon. And as was the norm back then when I wasn't at home I had a bunch of CGS episodes to listen to. Had a blast at Coastcon. Even found a dealer with 10 cent comics.
In May of 2012 finally broadband Internet made its way out to the extremely rural area I live in. So once again I was listening to every episode of CGS. Ended up on Matt's spin-off show,the Conan episode,and that made me really want to do a podcast. And a year later Asshat Podcast started. I only released 29 episodes. And the show ended mostly cause my two main co hosts got too busy to do the show.
Around that time I also had a disagreement with one of the CGS crew. This and Jamie D's passing are the major reasons why I stopped posting here and stopped listening to the podcast.
Anyways thanks to the Geeks and the great posters here I have managed to learn how to cope with crowds. And thanks to encouragement from Jamie D and others I have spent lots of the past 5 years doing video and commentary work for 12 indie wrestling feds in 4 states. Got to meet and talk comics with Jerry the King Lawler. And May 4th 2019 my "cousins",Ultimo Gallos and Felix Navy Dodd,are going to be ring announcer, commentary and backstage interviewer for a new Lucha Libre indie wrestling fed.
TLDR Thank you to all the Geeks and posters at this forum. Thanks to y'all I have went from barely being able to leave my home to being involved in pro wrestling.
I’m not big on the Oscars overall. That being said here were my 20 favorite films from 2018
1. First Man 2. Spider-Man into the Spiderverse 3. Blackkklansman 4. A Star Is Born 5. Won’t You Be My Neighbor 6. A Quiet Place 7. Blindspotting 8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 9. Mission Impossible: Fallout 10. Leave No Trace 11. Incredibles 2 12. Three Identical Strangers 13. Solo 14. Infinity War 15. Game Night 16. Aquaman 17. A Simple Favor 18. Bad Times at the El Royale 19. Annihilation 20. Halloween
Over the weekend my wife asked me who I was messaging on Facebook. It happened to be @mguy1977 and @Torchsong , and I said Matt and Al. She goes which are they? People from the CGS forums, we've been friends for over a decade. She now calls you my secret friends.
Most of us have been talking for a really long time and I am proud to have you guys as my secret friends.
I tell that story because you guys rawk and it leads to tonight's story.
My wife is starting a kindermusik (kids music classes) business and has friends from her training that she now calls her "secret friends" (she's jealous of you guys). One of her younger secret friends introduced her to using gifs in text. She was telling me about how on point she is with gifs now. then texts me a gif. She was so mad that I texted her one back immediately like I wasn't supposed to know how.
On occasion I am forced to reply to the I with absurd comments.
I happened the other day when someone got internet righteous on me. What else was I to do? I could ignore it as I do most things on the internet, but this guy just put it on a tee. I had to take a shot, and as with most of my internet "arguments" I'll let him win because I really don't care, but I am giving him the crying Indian.
On occasion I am forced to reply to the I with absurd comments.
I happened the other day when someone got internet righteous on me. What else was I to do? I could ignore it as I do most things on the internet, but this guy just put it on a tee. I had to take a shot, and as with most of my internet "arguments" I'll let him win because I really don't care, but I am giving him the crying Indian.
I'm still learning to fight that "Someone is WRONG on the Internet!!!" vibe and just let people "win".
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For some reason people get really irritated when you let them know that they won. ;)
Especially when you declare their victory and walk away. You don't have to get worked up and can ignore the internet righteousness.
But never leave a chance post the crying Indian go unfulfilled because Nothing is more absurd.
On occasion I am forced to reply to the I with absurd comments.
I happened the other day when someone got internet righteous on me. What else was I to do? I could ignore it as I do most things on the internet, but this guy just put it on a tee. I had to take a shot, and as with most of my internet "arguments" I'll let him win because I really don't care, but I am giving him the crying Indian.
Flash Fact: Iron Eyes Cody, the actor in the crying Indian commercial, was not a Native American at all... he was actually Italian (Sicilian, actually). He died in 1999.
Everybody see that story about the 17 foot python found in the Everglades? Crazy.
In case you were needing another reason never to go back to Florida, Miami has new critter to deal with, Nile crocodiles.
Alligators I'm okay with, they don't want to bother anybody. Nile crocodiles eat people for a living in Africa. Forget that stuff, if it hits Miami then it's north to the Everglades and upward migration. I hate Florida.
I love the forums they have been a place for me to meet people I will probably never meet in real life. They have been a place to talk with people about something else during the hardest parts of my life, but y think we might want to look at something else to get us together.
I don't think Twitter builds a community like the forums did and I am just trying to think of a way to keep us together and grow new ways.
FF all the way. The Waid/Garney Cap was really good until they got kicked off for the Heroes Reborn crap, but when they came back they couldn’t quite capture the same magic. Still good, just not as good. The Waid/Ringo FF, however, was pretty great from start to finish. As for the Thor book, it probably contains JR Jr.’s best artwork outside of Daredevil: Man Without Fear. It’s also probably my favorite thing Jurgens has written. But I much prefer Ringo’s artwork to JR’s, and Waid’s writing to Jurgens’. I’m not really a Jurgens fan, though, so your mileage may vary.
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Holy crap, I haven’t been here in what feels like forever. I missed you guys.
I missed you most of all, off-topic room.
Surgery was yesterday. It went great and mom is recovering well. They had her up and walking a little today.
I kinda stopped reading most modern comics,plus wasn't getting along with a regular poster here. So decided to take a break.
About a month ago started checking the forums again. Saw that the poster I didn't care for rarely posts anymore.
Anyways.. just wanted to thank the geeks and the posters here for so much. When CGS started I had given up on comics. Started listening to the podcast when episode 6 came out. And from then until mid June 2007 I listened to every episode.
I suffer from bad Social Anxiety disorder. It got so bad that besides work I never left my home. Discovered that by putting episodes of CGS on my mp3 player and listening to them at a loud volume I could go out in public and not have panic attacks.
Then in the fall of 2007 had a string of bad luck. Went from working my dream job to having to quit the job for health reasons. And not long after that ended up moving from right outside Houston to a tiny town about an hour south of Jackson MS. And where I moved to there was no broadband internet. With it taking up to 6 hours to download an episode of CGS,I was having to be very picky about what episodes I downloaded.
Hearing about all the fun the geeks and others were having going to cons I decided to try going to a con again. So in 2009 ,for the first time since 1995, I went to CoastCon. And as was the norm back then when I wasn't at home I had a bunch of CGS episodes to listen to. Had a blast at Coastcon. Even found a dealer with 10 cent comics.
In May of 2012 finally broadband Internet made its way out to the extremely rural area I live in. So once again I was listening to every episode of CGS. Ended up on Matt's spin-off show,the Conan episode,and that made me really want to do a podcast. And a year later Asshat Podcast started. I only released 29 episodes. And the show ended mostly cause my two main co hosts got too busy to do the show.
Around that time I also had a disagreement with one of the CGS crew. This and Jamie D's passing are the major reasons why I stopped posting here and stopped listening to the podcast.
Anyways thanks to the Geeks and the great posters here I have managed to learn how to cope with crowds. And thanks to encouragement from Jamie D and others I have spent lots of the past 5 years doing video and commentary work for 12 indie wrestling feds in 4 states. Got to meet and talk comics with Jerry the King Lawler. And May 4th 2019 my "cousins",Ultimo Gallos and Felix Navy Dodd,are going to be ring announcer, commentary and backstage interviewer for a new Lucha Libre indie wrestling fed.
TLDR
Thank you to all the Geeks and posters at this forum. Thanks to y'all I have went from barely being able to leave my home to being involved in pro wrestling.
1. First Man
2. Spider-Man into the Spiderverse
3. Blackkklansman
4. A Star Is Born
5. Won’t You Be My Neighbor
6. A Quiet Place
7. Blindspotting
8. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
9. Mission Impossible: Fallout
10. Leave No Trace
11. Incredibles 2
12. Three Identical Strangers
13. Solo
14. Infinity War
15. Game Night
16. Aquaman
17. A Simple Favor
18. Bad Times at the El Royale
19. Annihilation
20. Halloween
Over the weekend my wife asked me who I was messaging on Facebook. It happened to be @mguy1977 and @Torchsong , and I said Matt and Al. She goes which are they? People from the CGS forums, we've been friends for over a decade. She now calls you my secret friends.
Most of us have been talking for a really long time and I am proud to have you guys as my secret friends.
I tell that story because you guys rawk and it leads to tonight's story.
My wife is starting a kindermusik (kids music classes) business and has friends from her training that she now calls her "secret friends" (she's jealous of you guys). One of her younger secret friends introduced her to using gifs in text. She was telling me about how on point she is with gifs now. then texts me a gif. She was so mad that I texted her one back immediately like I wasn't supposed to know how.
https://www.today.com/news/diver-survives-almost-being-swallowed-15-ton-whale-t150169
Btw, The Burning Sensations was a "New Wave" band back in the early 80's. They had an MTV hit called "Belly of the Whale".
https://store.nin.com/products/captain-marvel-x-nin-collab-grey-tee
There is a white version too. Mine is already pre-ordered. :D
Any interesting news coming out of c2e2?
That is a rather iconic sticker...
On occasion I am forced to reply to the I with absurd comments.
I happened the other day when someone got internet righteous on me. What else was I to do? I could ignore it as I do most things on the internet, but this guy just put it on a tee. I had to take a shot, and as with most of my internet "arguments" I'll let him win because I really don't care, but I am giving him the crying Indian.
I just saw Alita Battle Angel. I thought it was more entertaining than Captain Marvel. Not really a better movie, but dang it was fun.
I'll get there someday. :)
For some reason people get really irritated when you let them know that they won. ;)
Especially when you declare their victory and walk away. You don't have to get worked up and can ignore the internet righteousness.
But never leave a chance post the crying Indian go unfulfilled because Nothing is more absurd.
https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/disney-plus-streaming-launch-date-pricing-1203187007/
Everybody see that story about the 17 foot python found in the Everglades? Crazy.
In case you were needing another reason never to go back to Florida, Miami has new critter to deal with, Nile crocodiles.
Alligators I'm okay with, they don't want to bother anybody. Nile crocodiles eat people for a living in Africa. Forget that stuff, if it hits Miami then it's north to the Everglades and upward migration. I hate Florida.
So I think cgs might need a discord channel.
I love the forums they have been a place for me to meet people I will probably never meet in real life. They have been a place to talk with people about something else during the hardest parts of my life, but y think we might want to look at something else to get us together.
I don't think Twitter builds a community like the forums did and I am just trying to think of a way to keep us together and grow new ways.
I have omnibus questions. I am getting 2 omnibuses the silver surfer by slott and allred.
What omnibus would you recommend
Captain America by waid and garney
FF by waid and wrenigo
or Thor heroes return vol 2?