Not funny

I know this shit is real, but when I read things like this, I imagine in my head... real puppets. Like the Thunderbirds.

"We do not hide (the fact) that the revolutionary armed forces ... including the strategic rocket forces are keeping within the scope of strike not only the bases of the puppet forces and the U.S. imperialist aggression forces' bases in the inviolable land of Korea, but also Japan, Guam and the U.S. mainland," KCNA said.

"Puppet forces and the U.S. imperialist aggression forces..." That's the part that gets me. Who really says those things and is taken seriously? North Korea, evidently.

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Picture Perfect - Aglow

I haven't been out shooting much lately. I got the bug the other night that I wanted to catch something different... I haven't been to a cemetery since that warm Savannah night, so long ago. A lifetime ago, it seems. Linda was interested in see what kinda cool stuff we could find/capture... and with a full, Harvest moon on the rise, I was bound to catch something...

I found this to be AGLOW with a radiance all its own.

We didn't stay long... I snapped what I could and had to get out. I'm happy with what I got though.

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Camera	SONY
Model	DSLR-A330
ISO	800
Exposure	0.8 sec
Aperture	4.0
Focal Length	28mm
Flash Used	true

I haven't disappeared...

I just wanted to leave you all with some pleasant sleepy-time music...

So, here are some pics I took playing around with the Harvest moon the other night. The straight moon shots I took while Linda was driving.

This one I thought was kinda cool...

The other was done at a cemetery we passed on our way home.

I did a little editing to this one, but the best effect actually came from the flash on the stone, making it uber white against the darker background. I simply added a "lomo" effect to it.

At the comic-con

This weekend I went to the Mid-Ohio Comic Con. It's my second year going and it seems to be getting better.

As we walked in there were the artists of Cyanide and Happiness.

They were hilarious and made a sketch for me...

There was a lot of Dr. Who... I've recently gotten into the show (new Doctors, not so much the old).

Anyone who is a fan of the Doctor, will surely know what these are:

"Exterminate! Exterminate!"

There were several stars there as well...

Superman:

Jean-Luc Picard:

And probably one of the most recognizable stars of them all:

One of the best things that happened at the con, happened while I was trying to take a picture of a hot chick in yellow fish-net stockings and a red mini-mini skirt. My friend Jo kept interrupting, calling my name... after the third attempt I began to recognize the urgency with which she was calling.

I turned around and there was Patrick Stewart getting ready to leave the convention... so I started snapping shots (lost track of the fish-nets). As he was walking I realized he was coming my way, so I was polite and lowered the camera. He walked by me, bumping into me along the way. He turned to me and said, "Excuse me." in that perfect Picard voice... of course, I heard, "Excuse me, Number one."