Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason Should ever be forgot.

No I stil havent seen V For Vendetta...in fact, this little bit of history was completely lost on me. THAT IS until tonight when I was watching Adult Swim. During one of the "promo bumps" they mentioned that it was "Guy Fawkes" Day. Neat huh? Yeah, Fawkes was a Catholic psycho who wanted to kill the Protestant King of England and both the House of Lords and the House of Commons (seriously, why the House of Commons?). Anyway, I think it's funny how this guy and Osama are pretty similar to one another (religious fanatics trying to exact change via bloodshed) and yet Fawkes has been imortalized by both a childrens poem, comic book, and now motion picture. Truly this is yet another example of how one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

Maybe someday in the far, far future...they'll make a movie in which a "freedom fighter" wears a Osama Bin Laden mask.

Speaking of comic books...I've almost seen all of Hellboy. Each time I almost see all of it I find it really entertaining. Today after breakfast me and Leah went to the Borders on Brentwood and after reading the CliffNotes for my reading assingments I picked up a collection of Hellboy stories. It was really, really good. Am I an uber-nerd for still reading comic books? Part of me wants to start drawing my old book "The Adventures of George and Timmy." It was great. I really regret throwing it out all those years ago. I worked so hard on it...grrr....grrr....if you ever spend any amount of time creating something NEVER under any circumstances just carelessly throw it out. You will regret it someday. I think it's really cool to go back and look at my old works. Anyway, if I decide to start my book back up again, I'll have to post a few pages up here.

Things I'm excited about:

Casino Royale
Flushed Away---we didn't go see it this weekend
"The Gambler" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (thank's for buying it for me Leah, I owe you $2.50)
Thanksgiving break
Seeing Lindsey again


Things I'm pissed about:

I ate too many cookies tonight (thanks though Leah, they were good)
my two tests on Tuesday (ouch)
I'm too busy to just sit and read like I did this summer
E-blogger's crappy photo up-loader
This stupid list