sad news...the joker is gone

i will begin by pointing out that without the Joker there is no real reason for Batman to be in existence. they are juxtaposed in all aspects. from the Jokers wild colors and fanatical laugh vs the black ensemble and gravelly voice of the Batman. they are opposite sides of the same coin.

with this knowledge i wish to pay homage to what i am thinking was/is the greatest actor to play the Joker ever. when i first heard that Heath Ledger was going to play the Joker in the upcoming Batman movie... i had my doubts... until i saw the new trailer. all doubt left. they finally got the feel of the Joker in this new film. i was simply floored.

Mr. Ledger was found dead, a few hours ago in his apartment. he was age 28 and was the star of 17 Films (counting the not yet released Dark Knight). i am always saddened when i hear the news that talented actors that i admire have passed before their time. he will always be the best Joker in my mind.

Curious to know

some people have voiced a complaint that i put too much stock in comic book heroes and what they are supposed to mean to us. IF i am so strange, then please tell me...

what does everyone else think the point of a super hero is? why are they created and what purpose do they serve? i have seen it intelligently argued that the DC comics played a significant role in winning WWII. so we can't simply say it is for entertainment only, can we? superheros have been influencing pop culture for decades now. so why are they not important?

my climbing calluses.

calluses... they used to mean you were a man that made a living in a respectable way. they meant that you did an honest days work. nowadays, my wife complains that they are rough. i have apparently been laboring under the false idea that rough and rugged were a sign of manly attraction. this is very hard on my ego, you see i have some very gnarly calluses from rock climbing. even though i now put in a day of honest labor behind a computer, i still view these as a sign that i am a man that works hard.

however, i am now sure that the female readers (assuming i actually have some, lol) will tell me that i am wrong and that the ladies like smooth hands. and this brings me back to my first post... girls like superman too... he has no scars and no calluses. he doesn't have these signs of manliness because nothing can actually penetrate his skin. on the other hand, Batman has lots of them. (read the Batman: Hush storyline if you want to see how many. )

what is that smell... the elderly

so i have this friend of mine that mentioned that he is bothered by a certain smell. that smell is the elderly. at first i thought this was ridiculous, i mean the worst you can get with an old person is that "old lady perfume"... you all know what i am talking about too. that strange... not actually good smelling but not exactly nauseating smell. cloying is the word that comes to mind for me. this was the worst i thought of when i heard his complaint.

that was until now... i ran into an older lady that smelled like a hamster cage. we have all had the experience as children of having a hamster or two, usually as children. and because we were children we never cleaned the cage... so it lead to that horrible mixture of urine and cedar shavings...

this makes me wonder... who lets themselves get to the point that they smell this way and how do they ignore their own stench?

very few people will like this. lol

so i just thought i would start by letting everyone know that Superman is a sissy and he makes me very irate thinking about him. the only person in existence (sorta) that can beat him is Batman. which sorta means that everyone that is not Batman is a sissy. how do you like that logic?
here are some reasons why Superman is a wuss. he can't be hurt. that means he has no idea what pain is. did any of you know that when superman was created: the reason he can "leap tall buildings in a single bound" is because he couldn't fly. but think about him now? he can fly, he can do anything. i mean ice breath, eye lazers, turn back time, read DNA with his naked eye. i mean for crap sake! his one weakness is Kryptonite. what is kryptonite? it is the radioactive remains of his home planet Krypton, you know the one that blew up! over 700 Million Light years away... in all probability none of those remains would have made it to Earth. the very fact that ANY made it here defies logic and the laws of physics. so really superman sucks because he doesn't represent what a superhero is supposed to represent. the triumph of one over adversity. and nothing can really challenge someone like superman. so how is he a hero?