Pilot's Log

The current value of a CentiBatman is 1,100 copies per month--down 200 copies from this time last year.

LINKED because for some reason YouTube doesn't want to allow other Sharing methods today.

This fellow is converting a surplus Chevy Caprice Police cruiser into the 1989 pattern Batmobile thanks to one of the body kits I've previously mentioned here on my LJ. In this video, he learns the virtue of the cordless recip saw.

Suffice it to say that I shall never do anything like this to Moonshine unless I absolutely have to. Tho' I have most of the tools to do it. If I wanted.

I bet David Willis is yelling, "Damn You, Justin Pierce!"

1) An interesting discussion on the Shortpacked! official board has been about the fact that the Diamond Distributor company uses the Batman standard to judge title sales. That is, every title they sell is compared to how well it does against the specific DC comic book titled Batman. One of the readers has suddenly made it his mission to create a comic book and attempt to sell a CentiBatman's worth of copies of it. (As the value of a Batman in copies is somewhat variable there is some luck involved.)

2) News relayed to me by Aaron ps238principal Williams that a British court ruled against Lucasfilm in a copyright case involving the Imperial StormTrooper costume from Star Wars. The judge had declared that the costume was "industrial design" rather than "scuplture" under the legal definitions (the copyright on it had run its course) and become public domain. My immediate thought was on the status of car design--whether the motorcars built before 1995 were suddenly made public domain by this ruling.

3) There are only six or so songs left to vend in my quota for Dread & Terror.

4) All of a sudden somebody is following my LJ via Blogged. I'm supposed to have a Widget working to tell me more about that as part of the LJ, but I haven't figured out how and where to put it up. Welcome, Kikuko...hope you are comfortable here.

5) According to the Japanese site www.saiani.net, the game Armored Core will have an OAV spinoff released sometime in 2010. I'll be watching for this in my usual around-the-blinders fashion.

6) Jon Bon Jovi was on Fresh Air yesterday. He says he absolutely hated the music videos his band made back in the Eighties. I wonder what the boys would have done if they had more creative control back then.

Hey.

I take stuff to Paul Francis, I get stuff from Paul Francis. What went out: a set of resin Nazi Zombie figures I forgot I had, which I thought (correctly) that he'd like. What came back with me: a pile of Wizard and ToyFare magazine back issues, which a friend of his dumped on him. And a coffee-table book on the making of Batman The Animated Series--one of my favorite things from the Nineties.

And then I got a package in my mail--the Pirates of the Spanish Main cards I had traded for. Since a family friend was visiting for tea, I assembled a ship to show her what the game is about, and she thought it was very clever.

So between this and other things going on in my world, I'll be pretty busy.

FP

I had some of this stuff. I tended towards Batman and my brother was more a Spiderman sort.

Remember when Dad bought me a diecast Batmobile?

Well, he just took delivery of a batch of mail-order stuff he bought and this was for me:



I think this shot me up about five or ten Nerd points.

FP