The name of this restaurant reminds me of two things:
I really liked the last two Five For Fighting albums, America Town and The Battle for Everything. “Superman” was quite possibly the only song I’ve heard that made me run out and buy an album without checking other songs first. So I was eagerly awaiting “Two Lights.”
Unfortunately, after listening through twice, I only actually like two songs on the album: “California Justice” and “Policeman’s Xmas Party.” Everything else is just too…sappy.
And “The Riddle” is everywhere. Radio, supermarkets, fast food, shopping malls. I can’t escape it. Worse, it’s one of those tunes that worms its way into your mind and runs around in circles.
But here’s the odd thing: Does anyone else think the verse sounds a little bit like “Weird Al” Yankovic’s “The Night Santa Went Crazy?”
I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon playing The Bard’s Tale (the new one) after a many months-long break. This time I figured out the combat system, so I was able to get past the starting dungeon.
Anyway, after Katie got home, we watched an episode of Teen Titans with dinner. It was structured as a fairy tale, complete with a narrator. The narrator sounded really familiar, but I couldn’t quite place where I’d heard his voice before. The credits listed him has Tony Jay, which didn’t ring a bell, so she looked him up at IMDB.
Turns out he was the narrator on The Bard’s Tale, and I’d been hearing his voice all afternoon.
Found written on a stairway tile:
![Writing on a tile: 'life is full of disapointments' [sic]](https://journal.kvibber.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/disapointment-tile.jpg)
Someone’s teacher might be disappointed in the spelling…
I was listening to the traffic report on KCRW this morning, and realized the background music sounded familiar. I thought about it, and realized that it was the instrumental track from Aimee Mann’s song, “Nothing is Good Enough.”
![[Windows]](https://journal.kvibber.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/windows_vista_64.jpg)
Well, it’s the second Tuesday of the month. With Microsoft’s regular update cycle, that makes it Patch Tuesday.
It’s also October, the month leading up to Halloween.
I hereby declare today to be Pumpkin Patch Tuesday.
In 52 Week 21, Lex Luthor’s super-heroes were finally given a team name and code names: Infinity, Inc. About half of the individual names are recycled from former members of the real Infinity, Inc.: Fury, Skyman, Nuklon, etc.
Interestingly enough, it turns out that a month ago, someone posted a different set of names [update: the DC Comics Message Boards are no longer available]:
Actually it’s Lumina.
The rest of the Luthor’s JLA is:
Trajectory/Eliza Harmon
Omnivore/Hannibal Bates
Ultimate Man/Jacob Colby
Reaver/Erik Storn
Herakles/Gerome McKenna
I don’t know where swallowhawk got the names (presumably somewhere offline), but it’s interesting to note that nearly all of them were changed by the time the team made its official debut.
All but one, in fact: Trajectory. And her story didn’t end so well.
