Sunday, May 29, 2005


My brother's graduated!

In classic style, I might add.

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:: Westsyde Story and the Science Police ::

My brother's high school graduation was very similar to mine - same place, same procedure, etc etc. One notable difference though was that another high school, Norkam, was also having their Grand March/dance at UCC at the same time. Pretty poor planning if you ask me.

Anyways it turns out Westsyde would have their Grand March, and then clear out and Norkam would have theirs. Okay, that's workable. But apparently the plan for the dance, which is always in the C.A.C. ballroom, was to SPLIT THE ROOM IN HALF with the big sliding-wall dividers, and have Westsyde on one side and Norkam on the other.

Instantly when I learned of this plan I had visions of people laughing, dancing and having fun, and then walking out into the lobby and ensuing in furious brawls with students from the other schools. Then dusting off their suits, walking back in and getting down to Y.M.C.A..

I mentioned this to Jeremy, and we theorized that while this would definitely make the night memorable, it would be even better if both schools were just minding their own business, dancing away, and all of a sudden the wall divider falls to the ground. The music stops, each school slowly turns, rises and stares across the void at their nemesis' (nemesises? nemesi?). And then...

DANCE-OFF!!!


*cue Westside Story reference joke*

It turns out that Westsyde had their dance in the Student Center wing of the CAC, so crisis and dance-off were averted.

Jeremy, his brother Mike, and my brother also play this game called Heroclix. It's a game with little figurines with different abilities and powers, and each player has a team of these guys and fights the other team. It's very Warhammer-ish. If you know kinda what I'm talking about, the preceding sentences will have made sense. If not, then oh well, I won't be able to explain adequately anyways.

Anyways, the figures are Marvel and DC superheros. Iron Man, Thor, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Batman, Flash, etc. are all characters you can get. Jeremy, Jamie and Mike all had a nice little collection with numerous well-known heroes and villains. So today while we were at the comic shop, I decided to buy a box - not really to play, since I doubt there's many Heroclix players in Vulcan, but just to see what I'd get.

Now, there's three "levels" of figures - yellow (rookie) to blue to red (veteran). So I open up my DC pack, hoping for someone cool like Flash or Joker or even Batman.

Instead, I got a generic cop lady named Science Police.

SCIENCE POLICE!!

This has quickly become my "disbelieving outrage" shout of the week.


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