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Heading off to San Diego tonight for the San Diego Comic-Con (aka Comic-Con International)!
That means there likely won’t be any updates (such as the Friday Five) until next week.
To my legions of adoring fans: I shall return. 
Not a good movie, but hella fun. Well worth seeing at a matinee. Peta Wilson rocked; Sean Connery was a parody of his earlier roles.
From Newsarama:
BUCKINGHAM PALACE 1, MARVEL, 0
According to Business Wire, Marvel has chosen to remove all references to Princess Diana from the upcoming X-Statix storyline in which she was slated to return from the dead. All references to Diana, as well as the English Royal Family will be removed from the “Di Another Day” storyline, slated to begin in September…
Yo yo yo, F-5 is in the hizouse: http://www.fridayfive.org/
1. Do you remember your first best friend? Who was it?
I remember the first one I called a “best friend” was a kid in my kindergarten class named Bosco. The first real “best friend” I had was a kid named Chris Devore back in Ohio in fourth and the first part of fifth grade.
2. Are you still in touch with this person?
Nope. Bosco and I drifted apart due to different interests: I wanted to pursue a path of playground swing supremacy; he wanted to eat paste. (No, not really. We were kids. I moved away.)
And I’ve long since lost touch with Chris Devore. Tried calling him on his birthday the year after I moved from Ohio to California, but never got a hold of him.
3. Do you have a current close friend?
I’m blessed with several close friends. In the order I met them: Scott, Jason, Noelle
4. How did you become friends with this person?
Scott lived two doors down from me in Mission Viejo.
Jason sat behind me in Algebra II my freshman year.
Noelle was in my Model United Nations class my senior year.
5. Is there a friend from your past that you wish you were still in contact with? Why?
There are a few. I’ve mentioned several in the past.
[Edit: Had to fix the spelling of hizouse. Repeatedly.]
Mmm….
Peta Wilson.
Peta Wilson as Mina Harker.
Peta Wilson as vampiress Mina Harker.
Says the Aussie ass-kicker: “My Mina Harker is not Winona Ryder’s Mina Harker.”
“Kaylee, what the hell’s goin’ on in the engine room?
Were there monkeys?
Some terrifying space monkeys maybe got loose?”
-from Firefly - “The Train Job”
Check out what the Weather Underground (link to the right) is saying right now about the forecast for here in Hell the valley:
Special Weather Statement
Statement as of 4:43 PM MST on July 7, 2003
…Very Hot Conditions Expected This Week…
High pressure over the southwestern states will strengthen and expand Tuesday through Thursday. As a result… daytime highs will rise each day… with the hottest weather of the year likely at most sites on Thursday. Record or near record highs are expected Wednesday and Thursday over south central Arizona… with near record highs over far southeast California… and the lower Colorado River valley Thursday and Friday.
The following are record high temperatures for Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for the dates of July 9th through July 13th.
July 9… 116 set in 1958 July 10… 115 set in 1934 and 1958 July 11… 118 set in 1958 July 12… 114 set in 1925… 1939 and 1985 July 13… 114 set in 1939 and 1989
People are urged to stay indoors… and drink plenty of water.
“Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.”
What have I done?
What have I done?