Electric Ash.

-  Once upon a time Frank Darbont wrote an Indiana Jones screenplay called “Indiana Jones and the City of Gods”.  An Indiana Jones story which would take the character to a lost city in Peru, introduce the idea that he conceived a daughter with Marion, and push the franchise into the post-War climate.  Spielberg loved it (apparently calling it “the best script he’d read since [Raiders]“), but demanded several rewrites resulting in taking out the daughter and changing the fled Nazi war-criminal villains to Soviets.  Years later, Spielberg filmed “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” including several elements from Darabont’s original script.  Not surprisingly, the new additions to the script turned out to be the weakest parts of the film (especially the idea that Indy had a son, not daughter, called “Mutt Williams”).

-  Topless Robot has an article up right now detailing the lives of 10 notable real-life superheroes (besides Phoenix Jones).  I saw a documentary on some of these nuts once on HBO called “Superheroes”.  In a general sense, none of these people do anything that remarkable… at least not anything any other altruistic citizen of a city could do.  Most are out of shape — when measured on the “super-hero” scale — and basically do things like bring food to the hungry.  Which is admirable, but like I said, any normal citizen can do that.  There was a group of people in New York, however, which I would not like to fuck with.

-  I don’t watch all that much television, but I gotta say… the list of 5 December TV debuts CBR’s Spinoff is excited about really does nothing for me.  The only show in there I could myself maybe watching is Doctor Who, but for whatever reason (maybe my Americanism?) I never could get into it.

-  Terence McKenna was one hell of a crazy bastard.  Still though, it’s hard to argue with his “Novelty Theory” (or “Timewave Theory”) which attempts to show the inter-connectedness of the Universe around us.  If you look at the layout of the waves, it’s uncanny how the ebbs and flows lineup almost perfectly with a variety global events of the last 50 or so years.

-  The newest PS3 update is taking forever.  And apparently quite a few hardcore Playstation people are not happy with it either.  The update is “4.00″.  The company created and debuted the update to take place before the Japanese release of Playstation Vita, which is the newest portable device from the company, a successor to the PSP.  Kind of annoying that people like me, who have no intention of ever getting a portable gaming device, need to update their systems for the future Japanese release of said device.

-  I ordered a Telecaster.  I’m very excited to get it.  It looks like this:

-Sonny