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Archive for January 2007
No, this isn’t about that Nicholas Sparks novel. This is about my notebook. So I was rummaging my drawers for something that resembles a scratch paper. It’s for my ideas for blog articles, so I can write them down. Yeah, I’m taking this blogging thing too seriously. If you ask me, I’d like to buy a little black book, which I shall call “My Little Black Book… of Ideas!!!” Or maybe not. Bookstores are just too crowded, and I don’t do crowds.
Anyway, my stupid search led me to discover the normal-sized neon green notebook I used back in college. Yes, it’s neon green. And on the cover is a simple paragraph in white text on a black box background.
WARNING: This notebook contains notes taken in class. Doodles derived from boredom and mood swings, may also appear often. Anyone who wants to get a decent grade is not advised to copy from this notebook.
Because full articles just aren’t enough.
From the Book of Jeremiah: “Go up, my warriors, against the land of Merathaim and against the people of Pekod. Pursue, kill, and completely destroy them, as I have commanded you,� says the Lord. Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction. Babylon, the mightiest hammer in all the earth, lies broken and shattered. Babylon is desolate among the nations! Listen, Babylon, for I have set a trap for you. You are caught, for you have fought against the Lord. The Lord has opened his armory and brought out weapons to vent his fury. The terror that falls upon the Babylonians will be the work of the Sovereign Lord of Heaven�s Armies. Yes, come against her from distant lands. Break open her granaries. Crush her walls and houses into heaps of rubble. Destroy her completely, and leave nothing! Destroy even her young bulls, it will be terrible for them, too! Slaughter them all! For Babylon�s day of reckoning has come. Listen to the people who have escaped from Babylon, as they tell in Jerusalem how the Lord our God has taken vengeance against those who destroyed his Temple.
With all the attention comic books are getting in the mainstream media in recent years due to the popularity of comics-inspired movies, now is a good time as ever to profess my love for the sequential arts. Not that I’m ashamed of loving a medium that mainly focuses on men in colorful tights. It’s just that before this age of comics appreciation, there was a time when the world looked down upon comics as nothing more than bad entertainment and poison for young minds. You wondering why? Pay attention, kiddies. I’m going to give you a quick look into the quirky old world of comics. Let me start by saying that comics of yore were viewed by some as very suggestive reading materials for the youth, hence Dr. Fredric Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent. What an ass. It was all in his mind. It’s not like a comic book can suggest too much to a young and innocent mind.
