Lassie

I'm lucky today in some ways. I've been able to talk with different people about various things and not felt too much off track. First the para-transit driver this morning noticed my bat-cap and we talked about the Batman movies and related matters. He's a young guy and I've ridden with him before. He said a friend had shown him the trailer for the new movie and it looked pretty good.

The joker's supposed to be well cast. Not Nicholson, of course, but good He was excited to hear that a Watchmen movie was coming out soon. I figured that they're working with good source material and it'll be good but I can't remember who's in it.

I told him about Robert Downey Jr as Ironman and how I thought Downy might work the alcoholism angle well. He didn't know that Ironman was an alcoholic. He said that he had gotten married in August in Oregon.

We smelled popcorn when I got off the van on the Square. I told him to eat now before his wife told him he couldn't any more.

Abby and I discussed the Marine Corps berserker mystique when I asked her to try to get Henry's service record for me. She agreed that it looked like he was wearing a Marine uniform in the picture on the death announcement.

The counselor who I'm seeing at Group health told me that he had studied Aikido and Tai Chi. His Tai Chi teacher was Tricia "Yu.

He likes reading Mystery novels especially Johnathan Kellerman who Linda has been reading lately. I told him a little bit about the Marvel comics Civil War and recommended Robert B Parker to him.

I told Russ about the first collie's attack on Lassie. "He found it mildly amusing. Allegra told me that the same dog bit one of the White house police officers in the groin.

Tonight we watched Jeff give Lassie to Timmy

Places to look

This is ostensibly a blog about books, so I thought I'd mention some of the places I look for books online.

My interests run toward internal martial arts like tai chi and aikido, both of which I've studied. I try to be aware of whats being published about these and related arts, so here are some of the places I look for new stuff--

budovideos.com
ryukyu books
plum publication
koryu.com
strongerman productions
aikido journal online
paladin press
ymaa publications
frog ltd
shambala publications
smiling tiger martial arts
mugendo books