Hung out with good friends this Saturday as a break from working on the book. We watched the 80’s video DVD that I bought (that one deserves it’s own post) then the “Masters of the Universe: best of seasons 1 and 2′ or whatever it’s called (and THAT deserves it’s own post). There was much laughter and moments of being disturbed from both. All in all, a great day, IMHO. Seeing as how Saturday is the only day of the week that I even leave the house for reasons other than work, We hit some of the usual places and I got some of the usual things.

Blue Beetle Companion by Christopher Irving - Hipped to this book by a great Newsarama.com article, I had my local comic book shop order this for me 2 weeks ago. I’m not even at the quarter way point (too busy workin’ on the site update) but I’m already in love with the book. As mentioned in the Newsarama feature, the hook isn’t just that it’s about Blue Beetle but how the people involved in creating him turn out to be many people that form the backbone of comic history itself. Will Eisner, Joe Simon, Jack Kirby, Robert Kanigher and just more, ‘What, him too?’ reactions than you can shake a stick at. A great book about a character who seems to have it all (even a radio show!) except for one thing: respect. If you see it at your local comic shop, give it a chance. Trust me, it deserves it. Christopher Irving definitely cooked up a great book here.

Knights Kingdom II: Rogue Knight Battle On the way back home, we stopped at K-Mart. Hoping to find some discounted Batdragster sets for spare parts, found an even better bargain of this set at $8. I found the latest round ro KK2 to be bland compared to the ill Scorpion logo enemies of the earlier sets, but this is some nice parts fodder. If they still have them, I may get another one (or two?) next week.

Rodney Dangerfield: I Don’t Get No Respect! Since I was going to check out at the less-crowded electronics desk, I browsed the DVDs in disappointment. On the way out of that isle, I catch the cover of the comedy CD and the price of $3. Well, I couldn’t pass that up. Haven’t heard that yet either (again with the site work) but I know I’ll be cracking up. I’m pretty sure I’ll be one of the only people on Earth with a comedy CD selection that has both Rodney Dangerfield and Robin Harris.

What a horrible week for a curse. I’m not going to start whining about what a week it was, but I’ll just say that it wore me out and left me needing to catch up on some sleep. I haven’t done that yet, but I’ll get around to it.

I bought more stuff this paycheck than I have in quite a while. While hanging out Raijin and Melanie, it was one of those “lucky find” days. From Splitstone Entertainment (my official favorite used game/movie store on Earth) I found one of those el cheapo 10 pack of martial arts flicks that became a must-buy after seeing it included Seven Blows of the Dragon. After watching 1.5 of the others in that collection, I’m starting ot regret this one a bit. Not horrible but not special, either. I also found an episode from the DiC era of G.I.JOE. It’s the Chunnel episode, the one that most people seem to find for some odd reason. To top it all off, I found a RockVideo monthly “Rap” tape that has Gangstarr’s Mass Appeal from this week’s Funky Friday. On the way back we hit up GameCrazy’s 3-for-$10 deal where I got Run Saber for SNES (an old fave of mine that I sold during hard times long ago), Namco Museum 3 (which I needed for a ScrollBoss feature anyway) and Mega Bomberman for the Sega Genesis. I also picked up the Essential Godzilla trade paperback from the comic shop, but I’ll talk about that another day. Right now, I have more entertainment than I know what to do with.