The final chapter of my latest book is being edited. I'm eager to see if readers love it or hate it. Either one will be interesting On Wednesday I'm taking my 11 year old niece to her first rock concert. We're seeing RUSH. I gave her a live album so she can "study", as she'd only heard one of their albums before, and apparently she's now super excited. Can't wait to see her do the first pump during 2112.

The sad thing is, I just haven't been in the mood to go see an action movie. I'm going to end up watching this and Avengers on video.

Not at all. I turned my monitor around and the picture looked fine.

It was the first generation with home video, but I don't know if that had any effect. It did allow us to never have to give up our childhood. By comparison, my Father saw the Mickey Mouse Club when it first aired, but never saw an episode after it went off the air.

Another idea. You are a time traveler who goes back to stop Stalin. Historically he built up the USSR's military and rolled over Europe with almost no opposition, with a disarmed Germany no obstacle. You decide the best option is to build up Germany, so the war doesn't even GET to your homeland France. You find a small, unimportant political party with a charismatic leader and provide them with some future hints and support. With a platform of making Germany a great nation again, this Hitler guy wins the election. You go home, the problem fixed.

Just like with movies, different era's had different styles. Some hold up better than others. I haven't been able to get into older comics much myself, not coming in until the Alan Moore era. The Marvel comics just seem weird, the art drawn before the dialog is written, and DC titles that are writer oriented like Teen Titans fill half the panel with dialog. I like things a bit more subtle.

Given my experience watching anime, my guess would be the subtitles are basically an English translation of the script provided by the studio, not a translation of what's actually said on screen. So, anything ad-libbed on the day won't be subtitled. A cheap way to release a foreign film.

I'd put on a pair of antennas and rub my hands together greedily.