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Last night I achieved caturation (all the cats in the same bed as me) as I was trying to go to sleep. This would have been nice, except that it wasn't the peaceful, sleepy kind of caturation, but rather the "pay attention to me! pay attention to me!" kind (except Minerva, who pretends to be above that kind of thing). This, combined with the fact that I'm going cold turkey off of cold medicine now that this Floridian Death Flu* is mostly gone, meant that I was still staring at the ceiling at 3AM. And then of course I woke up a half hour before my alarm went off, at 7AM.

On the plus side, I can speak, swallow and haven't passed out after coughing too hard at all this week so far. So, silver lining.

*Not the official name for what I had, but I'm lobbying the CDC.

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Huh. So the Leafs traded away Kaberle? I did not see that coming - after a decade in Toronto, I thought he'd finish out his career in the blue and white. From what I hear, he was too expensive to keep, but that's kind of a bummer. He was one of my favorite players.

Still, they got good value for him. I don't understand why Boston paid so much. Maybe they felt bad after screwing Toronto over in the Kessel deal.

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Aw man! RIP Dwayne McDuffie.

2/22/11

My local speakeasy got in a case of Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier -- just the Weizen, but I ain't looking a gift horse in the mouth -- and so I am spitting right in the face of my allergy and having one, because it's worth it.

I can feel the angry hives rising on my body as I sip. And it's so worth it. Mmmmm.

Now I want a nice piece of fish for dinner. Maybe some arctic char, or wild salmon. Hmmmm.

People allowed in the JLA

stegoking posted his ideal JLA lineup in an earlier entry in my LJ, and of course it's ludicrous. Here's who belongs and doesn't belong in the JLA:

OK, first of all, you cannot have the entire DC hero population in the JLA. Sorry, Stego. It's got to be, like, 8 or 9 heroes tops.

Next, some rules:

No New Gods.
No Teen Titans, current or former.
Nobody that isn't tough enough to take a hit from, say, a speeding truck (except Batman).
Nobody that has had sex with Dick Grayson (except Batman).
Nobody whose secret identity isn't old enough to have pubes yet.
Nobody with a "boob window" in their costume.
Nobody that belongs in the JSA, like Ollie Queen or Dinah.
No robots.
Nobody with "tornado powers".
No robots with "tornado powers".
Nobody with their head on fire.
Nobody with a stupid haircut.
Nobody who may detonate at any moment and need a containment suit to keep them from killing their loved ones.
No conservative Republicans, especially black ones.

Which leaves:

Superman (Clark Kent)
Wonder Woman (Diana Prince)
Batman (Bruce Wayne)
Martian Manhunter
Green Lantern (Jordan or Stewart, but NOT Rayner or Gardner)
Flash (Barry or Wally)
Aquaman (Arthur Curry)

To fill the eighth slot I'd be ok with The Atom (I guess the white one, since the assholes killed off the Asian guy), Zatanna, Plastic Man or (in a real stretch) Dr. Light.