I think I am going to start signing all of my emails with "I am not a lady." Not my personal emails mind you; my work emails. I think this will let me "go places."

I'm reading Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 17 yes SEVEN FRICKING TEEN, and it is the last one I will need to read to have actually gone through the entirety of the Bendis run to date on this thing. Believe me, if I'd known when I picked up vol. 1 waythehellbackintheday that I'd be into the late teens before I was done, I would not have started trying to back-fill at all. The current issues are just as good as the old issues. Still, in case I haven't made it clear, this is one hell of a comic book. This volume (Clone Saga) rocks, the Carnage arc was tremendous, and on the whole the entire deal just tickles me pink and makes me like Spider-Man. So that is, without being "cool" in the traditional sense, at least worthwhile.

As I think I've mentioned previously, I also rather enjoy The Prestige. This morning I amused myself once again by envisioning an alterna-version of The Prestige where the third act reveal is that there's actually a character named the Prestige, who has been manipulating the entire series of events from behind the scenes. In this morning's musings, the action of the film then shifted to the 22nd century where Batman and Wolverine fought each other to the death in magical robot suits. There's really no end to the potential imaginative real estate of The Prestige.

Anyways, I just found out that the 8-10 week ship time for those free blu-ray disks was woefully optimistic; I'm not expecting my gratis copy of shiny blu Prestige until around about the first of May. Motherfuckers win the format war, and suddenly we're all expendable! Dang. The good news (nay, best news ever) is that Batman Be Blu-Ray come July 8, in many different fancy packages. What I don't get is, why doesn't the blu-ray special edition come with the Batman flash drive that the regular-def special edition comes with? Them's monkey dealin's.

Anthony Minghella is dead? WTF? It's been a long time since I've seen The English Patient and I never saw Ripley, but the man wrote every single episode of The Storyteller and that makes him a god among insects. Bow!