Thursday Night with Steve Danger - December 18, 2008

Well, just one more week until Christmas. So welcome to the "Just One More Week Until the Christmas Edition of Thursday Nights with Steve Danger".

All I want for Christmas...

Here's my list.

• All-Star Superman action figure from DC Direct
• Sinestro Corps War Sinestro Action Figure from DC Direct
• Wacom Cintique 21UX Tablet
• Apple Time Capsule
• Socks
• Green Lantern Hoodie from Graphitti Designs
• All-Star Superman Vol. 2 Softcover
• Heroes Vol. 2 Hardcover
• The Spirit Vol. 2 Hardcover
• My Name is Earl - Season 3

What do you want for Christmas?

Winter Sucks. Period.

Thousands of years ago when the white stuff first started to fall upon our caveman ancestors they bundled up in fur, lots of fur. Then sat in caves for days at a time, around a small fire and grunted about how much winter sucked; come spring they forgot all about winter and how much it sucked and stuck around... then winter came again and they huddled back up and wondered why they didn't use the time to find someplace warmer to live. At least this is the way I imagine it.

Over the ages we've created things like snow suits, snow shoes, snow shovels and still we bitch and moan about the weather, I'm probably the worst offender for this. In order to curb the bitching a bit we decided what we need are winter activities, such as skiing, snowboarding, hockey (ok this one is awesome and the only good thing about winter) snowmobiling, skating and other things we say are "fun". I believe Christmas was invented to offset this feeling of shittyness, like an apology for having to deal with it.

Don't even get me started on driving. No, 4X4 does not mean you're not going to get into an accident; no, snow tires aren't going to make you invincible, so slow the hell down; hell, even in a 4X4 with duelies with snow tires it does not mean you can drive like it's summer, that's just idiotic. You meet a hooker who's quite obviously got 18 different diseases plus a monkey on her back doesn't mean "hey, I have a chain on my wallet and a condom on my dick, let 'er rip!" You're still going to end up in a bathtub full of ice, missing a kidney... and two different brands of hepatitis.

Oh and I totally stole some images from here.

Rock on!
Steve Danger