Ray's X-Blog

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Image: http://bit.ly/1obARkP (C) 2014 Ray X I've always been lousy at conformity. In a previous post I mentioned that I don't like the works of Shakespeare.  To most writers that's outright heresy. I also don't like professional sports.  "Did you see the game last night?" No, I have an active independent mind. I've seen attempts to make sports palatable to sci fi nerds.  One experiment was a 1960s comic book series called Strange Sports Stories .  It featured plots like this: a wimpy kid eats a mysterious berry and becomes a super high school athlete; a man playing golf on Mars who stops an alien invasion; a future society where playing sports is outlawed because it's too dangerous.  That last one involved some rebel athletes who save the day and have sports legalized again.  A very depressing ending. My anti-pro-sports viewpoint doesn't mean I'm against exercise or anyone going out and playing a friendly game of softball.  The ...

By Ray X After bingeing during my younger years I hardly read comics books, especially those way overpriced floppies from the Big Two.  It's the same stuff recycled ad nauseum.  How many more times will Galactus threaten to pig out on planet Earth after promising never to do it again? I find reading about the business of comic books and related media more entertaining. Disney owns Marvel, Warner Brothers owns DC.  And between the two corporate competitors WB is the worst. Let's face it: too many corporations have idiots in key positions.  As in know-nothing idiots.  They make decisions without taking the time to learn the product or service they're providing. Ergo, crap reigns. Like the time a comic book fan/film director was pitching a Superman movie plot to the guy who made the final decision.  The fan/director was going on about how he would tell Kal-El's story. The studio exec was puzzled.  He asked: "Who's this Kal-El character?"...