Just For Grins...

I'm not sure why, but I've decided to tak' the King's shillin'.

Or at least Google's.

At some point advertisements (allegedly based on the content of my ramblings) wil start appearing on this page, with some minuscule payment coming to me for every clickthrough. I'm, frankly, more interested to see what Google thinks I'm writing about than I am in any measely amount of cash that I might get from this.

It may, in fact, end up with my commenting here on the results as I see them, or as one of you out there passes them on to me, in which case the recursive effect of ads relating to the previously posted ads starting to pop up might, at the very least, prove amusing.

Just to get the ad-wave started, I'm going to mention a currently available book and see how long it takes for a related ad to come back to me.

My daughter (Guin; age 23) and I go to stupid comic book movies together. Last year one of the must-sees was the amazingly-well-done Hellboy. One of her gifts to me this Christmas was the book about the movie Hellboy: The Art of the Movie". Which is one of the best "art of the movie" books that I've seen.

One of the images in it (and at some point I'll get around to hooking up my scanner and include the page in question) is of the cover of a "iHellboy" comic book that appeared briefly in one scene of the movie. Now this was not Hellboy creator Mike Mignola's REAL book, mind you. Rather it was a great pastiche of the 1960s Marvel Comics type, with art in the style of the great Jack Kirby, and the requisite Comics Code Authority stamp in the upper right corner, showing that it had been cleared by the comics industry's self-censorship organization (and I'll probably write a rant on Dr. frederick Wertham, the Code Authority, and censorship in general at some point). The cover was truly a perfect example of the style that it was imitating. There was only one thing wrong with it, which didn't register until I saw it in the book.

The Code was so restrictive that any book with the word "Hell" in the title would NEVER have gotten approved.

... A tiny thing, I know; but of such minutiae are geeky fan-boy compulsions made!

(And, supposedly, shooting on Hellboy II starts this month -- Wheeee I can't wait!!)

Closing thought for today:
"Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing - with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place." -- Robert A. Heinlein