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		<title>Super Disguise!</title>
		<link>http://www.djkirkbride.com/2010/10/25/super-disguise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.J.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aside from disbelief that anyone could do good just for the sake of helping others, the biggest Superman criticism is his secret identity disguise. Namely: the glasses. As you can see in the panel that below (found by Jessi Reid while interwebbing, though we&#8217;re not sure from what particular comic book it was taken), even [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/dj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-3.png" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/dj/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-4.png" alt="" />Aside from disbelief that anyone could do good just for the sake of helping others, the biggest Superman criticism is his secret identity disguise. Namely: the glasses.</p>
<p>As you can see in the panel that below (found by <a href="http://jessiawesome.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Jessi  Reid</a> while interwebbing, though we&#8217;re not sure from what particular comic book it was taken), even Super Clark has questioned his chosen disguise &#8212; though the bigger issue, in my opinion, is his pajama fashion&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-999" title="Super_lame" src="http://www.djkirkbride.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Super_lame.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="402" /></p>
<p>But instead of complaining about it, ol&#8217; Supes should try to find some better way to have a secret identity. A better disguise&#8230; Now, depending on your take, either Superman is the disguise or Clark Kent is. Since the glasses are the complaint, I&#8217;m going to go with Clark being the disguise.</p>
<p>And here&#8217;s my solution&#8230; the ONLY solution:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1000" title="Super_stache" src="http://www.djkirkbride.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Super_stache.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="402" /></p>
<p>You&#8217;re welcome, Superman.</p>
<p>Now go buy some new PJ&#8217;s&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Waking Up Right</title>
		<link>http://www.djkirkbride.com/2010/10/21/waking-up-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.J.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look, as I wrote a couple days ago, I have issues with waking up in the morning. So many so, that I slept through yesterday. A whole day! I guess my 7:00 AM alarm went off for a while, then stopped&#8230; then went off again at 7:00 AM this morning, and it stirred me from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, as I wrote a couple days ago, I have issues with waking up in the morning. So many so, that I slept through yesterday. A whole day! I guess my 7:00 AM alarm went off for a while, then stopped&#8230; then went off again at 7:00 AM this morning, and it stirred me from my epic slumber. And even after a whole extra and unplanned 24 hours of sleepytime &#8212; I still groaned and grumbled about getting out of my slightly too short for my body length bed!</p>
<p>The part of not liking getting up in the morning that I can change (as I have to go to work regardless, which is the other unlikeable part), is my alarm music. Currently it&#8217;s a &#8220;melody&#8221; on my 12-year-old girl appropriate Samsung Rant phone called &#8220;Sunny Day.&#8221; I picked this due to it&#8217;s name, which I&#8217;d hoped would translate into a g&#8217;mornin&#8217; smile. It&#8217;s got a nice, brassy beat and a celebratory feel&#8230; and is incredibly annoying.</p>
<p>I think there is only one bit of music that I&#8217;d be happy with interrupting my dream time&#8230;</p>
<p><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="385" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e9vrfEoc8_g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="385" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e9vrfEoc8_g?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p>
<p>This would make me wake up with purpose! Gotta find that ringtone and then figure out how to download ringtones and if I can even do stuff like that on my Raaaant.</p>
<p>Yeah! Wakin&#8217; up in style! Heroically!!!</p>
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		<title>YOU DECIDE: The New Superman</title>
		<link>http://www.djkirkbride.com/2010/10/11/you-decide-the-new-superman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.J.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comics.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that Zack Snyder has been named director of the new SUPERMAN movie, the next big choice is who will play the Man of Steel&#8230; Who should it be? YOU DECIDE! Jon Hamm OR Danny Trejo? They&#8217;re the frontrunners in my brain&#8230; VOTE NOW IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that Zack Snyder has been named director of the new SUPERMAN movie, the next big choice is who will play the Man of Steel&#8230; Who should it be? YOU DECIDE!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.djkirkbride.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Super_Ham_or_Trejo.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-871" title="Super_Ham_or_Trejo" src="http://www.djkirkbride.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Super_Ham_or_Trejo.jpg" alt="" width="482" height="451" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Jon Hamm OR Danny Trejo?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">They&#8217;re the frontrunners in my brain&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">VOTE NOW IN THE COMMENTS SECTION!</p>
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		<title>End of Year / Decade Lists?</title>
		<link>http://www.djkirkbride.com/2010/01/02/end-of-year-decade-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>D.J.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like, as someone who occasionally blogs, I should write about my favorite whatevers for the past year &#8212; maybe the past decade. Lots of folks have made some great lists. Lists about movies. Lists about TV shows. Lists about&#8230; well, lots of forms of entertainment. I&#8217;ve done year end lists before, but, honestly, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel like, as someone who occasionally blogs, I should write about my favorite whatevers for the past year &#8212; maybe the past decade. Lots of folks have made some great lists. Lists about movies. Lists about TV shows. Lists about&#8230; well, lots of forms of entertainment.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve done year end lists before, but, honestly, I don&#8217;t have the best memory. I&#8217;ve seen lots of movies I like, read lots of good books, and watched lots of excellent TV over the year and the decade, but it&#8217;s tough to pick favorites. Honestly, I don&#8217;t even know what movies I saw this year. Saw a lot of them, though. And watched a hell of a lot of TV. Way too much. Didn&#8217;t read enough, tough.</p>
<p>I dunno, here are Five of My Favorite Entertainment-Type Things That Came Out This Past Decade (In No Particular Order)&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Doctor Who</strong> &#8211; Just been watching the freaking two day marathon on BBC America leading up to David Tennant&#8217;s final appearance as The Doctor tonight. (The Brits saw this on January 1st &#8212; between this and the cool accents, I&#8217;m quite jealous.). I used to hate <em>Doctor Who</em> &#8212; the original series &#8212; as a kid. It was on PBS, and it just freaked me out. Weird video and film combos, creepy cheap fx, etc. I think I&#8217;ll revisit them one day. The new one, though? Love it. So over the top and fun and weird and emotional &#8212; and rarely making a lick of sense. It&#8217;s the most entertainment I get from staring at the television.</p>
<p><strong>Batman Begins/The Dark Knight</strong> &#8211; Holy shit! Batman kicked ass in the movies this past decade! Well, wait&#8230; when did the last shitty Batman movie (<em>Batman and Robin</em>) come out? Ah, forget it, I&#8217;m not looking it up. These two rule. Christian Bales is a great Batman/Bruce Wayne, and, well, we all know that Heath Ledger&#8217;s Joker ruled&#8230; yeah, these are stellar flicks.</p>
<p><strong>Y The Last Man</strong> &#8211; From issue one to issue sixty, so many great stories featuring a world where all the males die, save one fella and his monkey. It&#8217;s a great road story with many surprising detours and lots to say on male/female relations and just humanity as a whole. Scary, exciting, funny, heartbreaking &#8212; great stuff.</p>
<p><strong>Arrested Development </strong>- Funniest sitcom ever! I had no idea I liked Jason Bateman! And every other actor was just perfect. Such a hilarious, layered, and wacky-ass show. I revisit all three seasons once in a while. Great show to just watch in a marathon.</p>
<p><strong>When You Are Engulfed In Flames</strong> &#8211; David Sedaris&#8217;s books of essays are always terrific, fast reads. This is the latest one, and it might be my favorite. As funny as his others overall, but with a little more gravitas throughout. His work has really inspired my own writing &#8212; not in ways that might be apparent, he is successful and acclaimed after all.</p>
<p>I left out and forgot so much. David Egger&#8217;s <em>A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius</em> came out in 2000, I think. That book blew my damn mind, finding hope in humor in an almost unbelievably tragic situation. The <em>Battlestar Galactica</em> remake with the Olmos was great up until maybe the last half of season four &#8212; and even then it was still really good. I loved Wes Anderson&#8217;s <em>The Royal Tenenbaums </em>just keeps getting better with age. Jeff Smith&#8217;s all-in-one <em>Bone</em> collection was released this decade, and it&#8217;s such an amazing work of cartooning, adventure, and fun. The novel <em>It&#8217;s Superman!</em> by Tom De Haven was one of my favorite versions of Superman&#8217;s origin ever (the character works so good in the 1940s), as was Mark Waid and Lencil Yu&#8217;s comic mini-series <em>Superman: Birthright</em> &#8212; a more modern take. Oh, crap! And Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly&#8217;s <em>All-Star Superman</em> &#8212; perfection! <em>The Shield</em> is maybe the best cop show I&#8217;ve ever seen, though I&#8217;m not through it yet. <em>Fell</em> by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith &#8212; twisted and glorious. Did <em>Transmetropolitan</em> by Ellis and Darick Robertson come out this decade? What about Garth Ennis and Steven Dillon&#8217;s <em>Preacher</em>? If so, they should be on a best of list. Baaaah&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m forgetting so much.</p>
<p>Ah, this is why I suck at these lists. I really enjoy being entertained, though.</p>
<p>Lots of shit this past decade, and I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s over &#8212; but there were some good times, too.</p>
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