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Colin Powell on Meet The Press
Oct. 19th, 2008 02:51 pmThis, right here, is what a real statesman sounds like.
Oct. 19th, 2008
This, right here, is what a real statesman sounds like.
Boys Are Weird (And Also Comics Babbling)
Oct. 19th, 2008 09:38 pmI got bit with the productive bug in a huge way today. It was kind of awesome. I cleaned up my half of the room, did my laundry (and sorted and put it away, which is a minor miracle), bought plane tickets home for winter break, and dyed my hair. Purple again, might do a new color next time, though. Will be pictures, as soon as roommate comes back to hold the camera!
I will never ceased to be amused by the guys in my dorm, who have decided that the Naranja mailing list is the perfect forum for their pasive-aggressive little bitch fights, and thus send endless messages about flushing the toilets and not shaving your pubic hair in the shower. Repulsive, but hysterical.
A while back I posted a a Booster fic set during 52 that I couldn't post because I didn't have the direct quote I needed for it. While I was at the bookstore yesterday, I looked it up, and wow. It was even more sad and cruel of Ralph than I remember.
A little background to give context: in Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Ted is investigating the theft of funds from his company. He and Booster haven't talked in awhile, but Booster comes to help him anyway. Before they get anywhere, though, Ted's house is blown up, and Booster ends up in the hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Ted figures out that Maxwell Lord, their former team leader/friend/boss is behind it, and goes to confront him; Booster tries to go with, but is too badly injured and collapses. Ted finds Max, who tries to convince him to join his new world order; when Ted refuses, Max shoots him in the head and has his body thrown into an incinerator. Booster finds out Ted is dead a few weeks later, when Batman throws Ted's shattered, brain-encrusted googles in Booster's face. Honestly, I don't blame Booster for trying to shoot him.
52 is set a few months later, after the world has been saved from Max and his robot army. Booster is understandably bitter and sick of this whole century; he's back to being the money-grubbing, sponsor-taking superhero we all know and love. Partway through 52, Ralph shows up. Ralph, aka, the Elongated Man, was on a team with Booster for years, but hasn't been around since his wife Sue was murdered. He wants Booster to help him find some resurrection cult that he thinks can bring her back; Booster is not interested, and Ralph gets pretty pissed. Cue the big scene - after Booster saves a crowd from a burning tanker, a guy shoves himself in front of the news cameras and says that the week before, Booster paid him to pretend to be supervillain so he could stop him and look good. While everyone is being shocked and appalled, Ralph shows up, too, and says:
"Has anyone seen Blue Beetle in the last few months? No. Why? Because this man didn't even care enough to save him from death. Booster Gold is a living, flying con game...I can't believe I came to you for help. You call yourself a hero? You let Sue down. You let Ted down. And now you've let the whole city of Metropolis down."
How incredibly horrible is it, to accuse a man of willingly standing back and letting someone Ralph knows was his best friend for more than ten years get murdered? This whole scene is just brutal to Booster - this whole part of 52, in fact, where he has a huge rivalry with the hero Supernova that leads to a fight with Supernova saying some astoundingly cruel things to him, and then to Booster getting (supposedly) killed saving Metropolis from a bomb. It hits even harder on the re-read, when you know that Booster is absolutely doing the right thing all through here, and that Supernova is, well, actually Booster (it's kind of complicated).
I will never ceased to be amused by the guys in my dorm, who have decided that the Naranja mailing list is the perfect forum for their pasive-aggressive little bitch fights, and thus send endless messages about flushing the toilets and not shaving your pubic hair in the shower. Repulsive, but hysterical.
A while back I posted a a Booster fic set during 52 that I couldn't post because I didn't have the direct quote I needed for it. While I was at the bookstore yesterday, I looked it up, and wow. It was even more sad and cruel of Ralph than I remember.
A little background to give context: in Countdown to Infinite Crisis, Ted is investigating the theft of funds from his company. He and Booster haven't talked in awhile, but Booster comes to help him anyway. Before they get anywhere, though, Ted's house is blown up, and Booster ends up in the hospital with 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Ted figures out that Maxwell Lord, their former team leader/friend/boss is behind it, and goes to confront him; Booster tries to go with, but is too badly injured and collapses. Ted finds Max, who tries to convince him to join his new world order; when Ted refuses, Max shoots him in the head and has his body thrown into an incinerator. Booster finds out Ted is dead a few weeks later, when Batman throws Ted's shattered, brain-encrusted googles in Booster's face. Honestly, I don't blame Booster for trying to shoot him.
52 is set a few months later, after the world has been saved from Max and his robot army. Booster is understandably bitter and sick of this whole century; he's back to being the money-grubbing, sponsor-taking superhero we all know and love. Partway through 52, Ralph shows up. Ralph, aka, the Elongated Man, was on a team with Booster for years, but hasn't been around since his wife Sue was murdered. He wants Booster to help him find some resurrection cult that he thinks can bring her back; Booster is not interested, and Ralph gets pretty pissed. Cue the big scene - after Booster saves a crowd from a burning tanker, a guy shoves himself in front of the news cameras and says that the week before, Booster paid him to pretend to be supervillain so he could stop him and look good. While everyone is being shocked and appalled, Ralph shows up, too, and says:
"Has anyone seen Blue Beetle in the last few months? No. Why? Because this man didn't even care enough to save him from death. Booster Gold is a living, flying con game...I can't believe I came to you for help. You call yourself a hero? You let Sue down. You let Ted down. And now you've let the whole city of Metropolis down."
How incredibly horrible is it, to accuse a man of willingly standing back and letting someone Ralph knows was his best friend for more than ten years get murdered? This whole scene is just brutal to Booster - this whole part of 52, in fact, where he has a huge rivalry with the hero Supernova that leads to a fight with Supernova saying some astoundingly cruel things to him, and then to Booster getting (supposedly) killed saving Metropolis from a bomb. It hits even harder on the re-read, when you know that Booster is absolutely doing the right thing all through here, and that Supernova is, well, actually Booster (it's kind of complicated).