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i • d • i • o • syn • cra • sy

1. A structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group.
2. A physiological or temperamental peculiarity.
3. An unusual individual reaction to food or a drug.

List five of your own idiosyncrasies and then tag five friends to do the same.

1) I look just like my Dad when he was my age, albeit much taller. There is no question that I'm legitimate.

2) I have a really hard time staying awake at work around 10 AM. I have to get away from my desk and do something else for awhile. But it only happens then.

3) Conversely, when it's bed time, I'm just like a seven-year-old. I will avoid it as long as I can even if I'm dog-tired. If this means randomly trolling for livejournal pictures, so be it.

4) I have a lump of cartilage (or something), on my neck, just below the skin about an inch beneath my right ear. It's been there for as long as I can remember.

5) My mind is a giant garbage pit of trivia that I can pull up at a moment's notice. Sadly, matching names to faces is not "trivial" enough and it takes me awhile to consistently remember this kind of information (unless it's an actor, then it's dead simple).

Who's next? I suggest canadianknight, hislittlekitty, spookiemonkie, stephtopia and wendy_licious.

Guilty Pleasures - Comics

Some of the sillier comics in my box:

1) Battlestar Galactica #16. This was a stand-alone filler issue that Walt Simonson did for Marvel's short-lived TV-show tie-in. It's a sold 20 page story involving a cylon that's a little too good. Compared to the rest of the series, it was genius.

2) Captain Canuck. This was the comic that got me into comic collecting, way waaay back in 1979. It's pretty hokey now, but I read and reread every issue until they were worn away. I still have a CC pen and sew-on patch kicking around somewhere.

3) Captain Phil and the Inter-Galactic Space Pals. Don't let the title fool you, this was ironic humour about ten years too early. I loved it.

4) Eagle. It was about a guy who was hunted by ninjas. in spite of that it was actually really good. The comic lasted a good couple of years and had a great background (Aliens invade the earth in the late 18th century but are eventually thrown off. This lead to weird 1940's-noir-ish present which had the occasional alien thug and lots of bad-ass tech). It was also the first and best time I saw someone use the phrase "It was real, and it was fun, but it wasn't real-fun."

5) Hero Sandwich. It was a team of superhero detectives consisting of two women (one a combat monster, the other the brains of the outfit) and three guys (a womanizing jerk, a miami-vice fashion victim with stretching powers and a short little guy with a have-a-nice-day smiley face for a head). Their first job, they get hired by a coven of vampires to find a serial killer who thinks he's a vampire (he's giving them a bad name you see).

6) Icon Devil. I can't even remember what this was about, but I think it was in the future as I recall alien pimps.

7) Privateers. For some reason I loved this book and was sad that the so-called 12 issue miniseries only lasted two issues. Looking back on it now I can see that the story ripped off SW: A New Hope something awful, and the artist really really loved John Byrne.

8) Starman. That would be the Will Payton Starman, not that johnny-come-lately Jack Knight (though that was a pretty good book when Robinson wasn't wanking). When Roger Stern was writing it, it was a fun little piece of superhero popcorn.