In the 21st Century Now

I've referenced Warren's Burst Culture post before, which also jammed this firmly into my brain:

The hurdle to credible publishing on the web, now, is the nine dollars it costs to buy a domain name from GoDaddy, which can be mapped on to a free Tumblr or Blogger space.

Well, I shelled out a couple extra bucks to maintain one latex-thin prophylactic against those ready to spam my email and home address, because I just couldn't get the idea out of my head to go ahead and own...

www.warmfuzzyfreudianslippers.com

Tomorrow, the world!

Of course, if you've just now clicked without reading ahead to this sentence, you've just discovered that it takes you right back here.

Progress

This is something from the private journal that I thought was worth mentioning here.

If you asked me as recently as a week ago how I felt about my progress as a writer in 2007, I would've said, "Piss poor." If you look at sheer numbers, I'm way behind. However, there's just no comparison between where I am right now and where I was this time last year. Not only that, but since last week, I've made quite a few strides in networking with area writers, not to mention some pretty serious cats via Teh Intarnets.

It's all about seed-sowing, which is what I'm doing right now and what I'm feeling pretty good with right now.

Grumpy Old Villains

Written World: 50 Things I Love About Mainstream Superhero Comics

8) The core team of the JSA is essentially a bunch of cranky old men who probably get together with old supervillains to play poker.

This sort of fuels an expansion of this idea in my mind.

I wrote that story as part of my deconstruction of the supervillain archetype. But, I want to take it further. We all know the various and sundry reasons why any superhero keeps fighting the Neverending Battle. But why do villains keep going? Why keep get your ass handed to you on a regular basis? Why cope with the various life disruptions caused by jail time or faking one's own death?

Because they're EEE-VIL? That might be a plausible explanation if they won something really worthwhile on occassion. Being psycho might be a better explanation; certainly that's the one given to us by a lot of villains lately.

Gotta think more about this one...