Today in the Trinity Universe: the Rock, who will perhaps answer our doubtings

[aberrantangels]

The lot of man is ceaseless labor, or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder, or irregular labor, which is not pleasant.

January 21
[Aberrant] Appearances on N!'s Two Minutes Hate segment include Count Dragunov (popularity rating 62%), who swears "to become the ravager of humanity, harbinger of misery and the reaper of souls", and Rocky "The Face" Elizondo (98%), who calls out Dan Miller and Crystalhawk.

The Face (either an elite or an XWF star, I'm not sure which but I think the latter) is one of two expies Captain Ersatzes for Dwayne Johnson in Aberrant canon (we'll be meeting the other soon enough). Ironically, the other one has the Rock's actual face; Elizondo has his speech patterns. "So what the Face wants to know is if you two pansy-ass chuckleheads don't have too much powder in your panties," he says, offering to meet them both right at Hollywood and Vine and

commence on laying the almighty beatdown on both your punk asses. Now, what the Face will do after that, is he's gonna hulk up the Face Hammer, he's gonna drop the Face Anvil and one of you loudmouth chesters is gonna suffer the Atomic Face Genocide right in the middle of the street. And then the Face will proceed to climb the N! broadcast tower foot by foot by God-blessed foot.

Dragunov, on the other hand, is a heavily-armed Goth poet. "I will eat only bones and drink only blood." (Wasn't that one of the angels' curses on Caineeeee?) "My footsteps leave flame and I travel at the velocity of pain." (How does that compare to the speed of swords?) I'm sure I found this stuff surpassingly cool in 1999, but in 2008, it's as narmful to minors as the Face.

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[etherlad.livejournal.com]

Also:

The Republican party holds its Alaska caucus in the ramp up to the presidential election.

[patpandahat.livejournal.com]

Also, we've had a Libertarian president for the past 4 years!

Which, if I may be forgiven political-motivated trashtalk, would at least have been a load off my mind between '04 and now, compared to the guy we were stuck with.

[aberrantangels]

Eminently forgivable. I'm pretty sure I'd have preferred Pendleton (and Schroer before her) to "the only President we've got" (as Molly Ivins, may her crusading soul find peace in the clearing, used to say about Reagan and again about Shrub), even if the trade-off was having Proteus and the Directive out there.