Random Thoughts — Page 264

Wow, that brought back the memory of when I first got the internet and a friend of mine gave me a list of web addresses he felt I needed to know, Alta Vista was of course one of them. Suddenly memories of geocities, The Terrorist's Goldeneye site (that name sounds so unPC today, thought nothing of it back then), hotmail.com, dial up modem handshakes, the annoyance of picking up the phone to make a call and being greeted by an ear full of static, and my mom yelling at me to get off the computer so she could use the phone \ are rushing back to the forefront of my mind.

That wasn't even that long ago. Crazy. Things change so fast. I never would have dreamed of someday being able to surf the web at far greater speeds on a tiny little computer with a then mindbogglingly massive 32gb hard drive that I carry around in my pocket while sitting in the passenger seat of a car or waiting in the grocery cue.

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William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is hilariously bad.

*sigh*  : (   I am now Jack Benny's age.  

No birthday after 21 is a happy one, so I wish you a very solemn birthday Warbler ;) or should it be :(? 

I feel so old.   And I only have 1 year to prevent from becoming a real life version of a certain movie : (

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My nuts fell off.

DuracellEnergizer said:

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jumped the shark have they?

Ha-ha, no.  I should have clarified.  The two I don't use fell off.

AntcuFaalb said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

William Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is hilariously bad.

True! It's nothing compared to: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_duzQzS1I</a>

Warbler said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

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jumped the shark have they?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they get pushed to November.

It seems like it is almost impossible to find fans of The Walking Dead. I know there are thousands out there, but where do I find them? And no, I don't mean the AMC series, everybody watches that and loves it for some reason. I've gotten to the point where I can't stand it. Every Walking Dead fan site on the web seems entirely focused on the TV show. Surely there is some community of Walking Dead fans out there who loved the series before the TV show hit and find the TV show to be as mediocre as I do.

As far as the comic goes, beyond basic information and plot synopsis, I can't seem to find anything relating to it, no forums full of thoughts, ideas, and speculation, everything seems to be about the TV show and the apparent dreaminess of Daryl Dixon*.

As exciting as it was when it was first announced, the TV show is one of those things I wish never happened. Your typical "Walking Dead fan" now seems to be obese women in their early thirties with pictures of Norman Reedus pasted around their homes. I also feel like the quality of the comic has taken a dive since Kirkman took over as the show runner for TWD. Like so many things that become popular, TWD TV show has brought with it a lot of baggage that makes the whole thing suck. 

*In my experience, for some reason fans of the show seem to think it is a direct spot on adaption of the comic series. On no less than three occasions has some minor acquaintance discovered that I read TWD and immediately after letting out some over-the-top gasp blurted out something along the lines of, "Don't you even tell me what eventually happens to Daryl, because I don't even want to know!" or "Daryl better still be alive!" or some other comment or questions about Daryl. Seriously. This has happened on three separate occasions. When they hear that Daryl isn't in the comics, the usual response is a bewildered, "WHAT!?!? The best character isn't even in the comics?"

Daryl doesn't even really do anything on the show! None of the TV show characters do. Everybody just adores Daryl for his looks. It is pretty lame.