I'm an award winning Geek!

Last week, I mentioned several comic book related blogs for your reading pleasure. One of them, Living between Wednesdays (I love that title) was running a contest about your most prized geeky possession. On a lark, I entered this photo of the awesome painting job that Jennifer and I did (okay, Jennifer did) of the Booster Gold wall in my comic book room. As you will see by following the link, I am officially the geekiest person ever (that may be a bit of an overstatement).

In honor of this, well, honor, and based off of a suggestion that Randy made to me, I wanted to spend a little geek time with you today.

Geek Topic #1- The end of 52 (Spoilers, obviously)

It was suggested that this might lure LaRae into commenting on my board, so here we go. First of all, I loved 52 and felt that it did an admirable job of elevating some previously underappreciated characters (cough* Booster Gold *cough). I won't say that I was disappointed by the ending, because anything that claims to be the beginning of the "glory days" of Booster Gold can't be bad (although I would argue that the "glory days" started with issue one of his first series. However, I don't think 52 did a good enough job of explaining how all of the earths diverged. We see Mr. Mind sucking pieces of history up, and all of a sudden we have the CSA, or the Atomic Knights, or Kingdom Come, etc. Huh? I may be a little silver age here, but I really want them to go back and say, "Mr. Mind made it so that such and such event did not happen, and therefore this is how Vic Sage and Dan Garrett are still alive." Hopefully, we will see some of this in the new Booster Gold series (!) that will debut soon. Speaking of spin-offs, I would so buy three copies of a "Ralph and Sue Dibny: Ghost Detectives" series. They would rock!

Geek Topic #2- Free Comic Book Day or The FCBD that almost wasn't!

Saturday sucked a little. Jennifer was helping out at the IISD job fair, so she had to leave home at 7:00am. Terry's didn't open until 10:00, so that gave me some lounging time, which should have been awesome. However, Jennifer got as far as the church before figuring out she had a flat tire. In a hurry, she came home and traded cars with me. No big deal, right? Changing a flat tire may take ten to fifteen minutes. However, Jennifer's car didn't have a jack. Luckily, we had an extra jack that I took out of my car before we traded it in for my current car (aren't I a stinker). Unluckily, the lug wrench on the extra jack didn't fit Jennifer's lug nuts, or rather fit them too perfectly, because once the lug nuts were off the wheel they were literally stuck in the lug wrench. In my infinite wisdom (or because I've watched one too many episodes of I love Lucy) I decided that the way to solve it was to get something slippery to loosen the nuts. Lacking in anything approaching manly car fixing stuff, I opted for what I know best: Food! To my eternal surprise, some extra virgin olive oil worked perfectly, at least on the first one. After that, the lug wrench became too slick for me to get any leverage on it. Therefore, I washed the lug wrench off and went to work on the second lug nut, which promptly got stuck because the lug nut was too big for that lug wrench. So I reapplied the EVOO (isn't Rachel Raye great!). It became this sort of ludicrous two step process to get the lug nuts off, but it worked on all of them, except for the last lug nut, which for some reason, was three sizes smaller than all the rest and therefore would not take my lug wrench. I do not have the space to explain every hair brained idea I tried to fix this malady, but let's say that more than a few things got broken and I have some newly earned battle scars. Finally in desperation, I surrendered and vowed to walk to Terry's for FCBD (because that is how loyal I am tomy geekdom). Luckily for me, I happened to notice that there is an auto parts store half a mile down the road. I went in, found a lug wrench, walked back and finished the process of putting on the new tire in like five minutes. Unfortunately, in all of my machinations, I bent the rim of the wheel, but that is a whole other story.

FCBD was only "meh". Terry didn't have everything that I thought he would have when he claimed to be a "Gold Sponsor", but in fairness, neither did Lone Star (which I drove to in my newly minted death car) and they only let you get one item.

Okay, that wasn't entirely a geek story, but it sort of keeps with the theme of the post. Alright, ladies and Gentlemen, my conference period is just about over and I'm out of things to talk about (although as Joanna points out things are better in three's). Feel free to talk about your geekiness in the comments section.