Mad Hatter takes on THE MAXX (ps, I'm BACK BABAY!)

OOOOK, so I realized that I've taken nearly a half year reprieve from this blog and I have decided that, instead of starting ANOTHER new one, I would come back here to my original block, life through the looking glass, and post my upcoming project HERE:
The Mad Hatter (me) Takes on THE MAXX: a MULTI ANGLE(emphasis on MULTI, because I intend to come at this from EVERY angle I can approach it) review on Sam Keith's 'THE MAXX' both the animated AND the comic series. 
Somethings you may not know about me, growing up my TV & reading were fairly limited/sheltered...I DID watch a lot of TV (A LOT OF TV), but between usually not having cable (ie- having the 3-5 stations you could pick up out of the air...thats right, once upon a time you could still get access to a few channels even w/out cable, not anymore) and having religious & VERY controlling parents, I missed out on some pretty culturally significant programs.  For example, the iconic American show 'The Simpsons', FORBIDDEN! I didn't even see the show until I was 20yrs old, all exposure I had to it was secondhand & purely through cultural osmosis due to the fact that it was/is a show that has so permeated our culture that it has seeped into practically everything, and eventually became a parody of itself (something we'll deconstruct at a later date...trust me, as I wasn't exposed to this show growing up, ie-the time during which it was actively being released & designed, I have a VERY unique reaction to it...much of it confuses me frankly, and at a point we get into several full seasons of occasional good quips but mostly severe mediocrity...but like I said, a later date).
I intend to do these reviews in partial text, partial video as I am usually better expressed through my writings.  You can look forward to seeing my support animal Bozzley the weenier dog as my costar in these reviews as he assumes someone else is in the room when i start talking randomly to nothing, so he insists on sitting in my lap, ergo, his presence is inevitable, but that is OK because he adds cute to the review, and everyone could always use a small dose of cute.
so yeah, that covers this reintroduction and new direction in which I intend to take this blog, I hope ya'll enjoy it and stick around.  It may take me a while to get my hands on ALL the maxx comics (the local library only has issues 1-3 & #6) but as the animated series really only covers like the first issue, i don't think it will be too much of an issue starting off (though i do intend to go through the WHOLE series at length).
Authors Notes:
1- in case you are EVER wondering 'is this guy high?', the answer to that is most likely YES.  I live in Oregon where medicinal marijuana is legal and I am a patient of the OMMP, I have not shame in this fact as it is the ONLY medicine that brings relief to my multifacited medical conditions.
2- I am NUTS- in case I ever seem needlessly rambly, like now lol, or i come across as a total nutter, we'll just clear this up right now by saying, i am...i have PTSD as well as other issues, and i spend most of my time at home.  I'm a bit mental but a very likable individual, hopefully you'll like me to (or at least my reviews)
3- I am a night owl- i'm a nocturnal, mostly, individual.  I stay up all night, when the world is quiet and i can be peacefully alone w/my thoughts & art (or not so peacefully some nights as i am, as stated, unstable so not every night is peaceful) and i tend to suffer from insomnia, so if i seem incoherent sometimes, this could be a factor (i will usually mention of it is a factor at play in any given review just as a heads up...just in case i leave you sitting here going 'wtf was that, it made NO SENSE)
4- everything is my opinion- this blog is a compilation of my personal objective opinion of the various things i review...key word here is OPINION, meaning its my view and not necessarily yours...if you disagree w/my view or something i've said that is FINE, you're entitled to your view, please don't flame me in the comments though just because you don't agree w/something, and if i slip up on a factoid, DO NOT berate me, just simply point out my slip up and i'll correct for it.  thank you.
5- lastly, NO, my nickname 'the mad hatter' is NOT a recent development and is NOT a declaration of fandom for Tim Burton's recent rendition, which i confess i STILL have not sat down to watch yet (believe me i'll doubtlessly review it when i do).  I have been mad_hatters_apprentice at yahoo since age 13, and i have been nicknamed 'the mad hatter' or simply 'the hatter' since younger than that.  Its just an association & a nickname that seemed fitting and stuck from a young age.
I will however say this: I LOVE JOHNNY DEPP (who doesn't) and i DID enjoy the photos i've seen of the makeup & costume they created for the live action film.

FWEHHH, all that being said...welcome to the mind of the mad hatter...step through the looking glass & behold what madness lies in wait ;)

MOVING!

After two weeks & some change of practically non stop hunting, i have FINALLY procured a new location for us to move to.  Thankfully its in the neighborhood just like we wanted, its only slightly smaller than our current unit, BRAND NEW STOVE, up to date dishwasher, newer fridge, decent sized kitchen (necessity), i'll have a bigger bedroom which will be nice for blaine & i, justin will have a slightly bigger room as well...so its like everyone wins :D
I CAN NOT wait to move, two weeks from today on the dot :D we gone! I look forward to decorating and meeting hopefully very nice new neighbors (the manager is awesome, sweet awesome lady), looking forward to a new room, less space to clean & vacuum...gonna need more shelves probably lol (but we always need more shelves, three total bibliophiles in the house)
Hudson Court here we come :D 2 weeks and counting :D 14days :)

The Boys

Here are a few photos of my two boys, Bozzley my mini Dachshund and Morphy(Morpheus) my seal point Siamese cat, they have been bonding over the course of the last week or so and are finally to the point where they'll sleep together :).  they are too too cute!

I knew they would quickly become the best of friends :) they're just like brothers.

night before i get my new pal

so after weeks of searching & hunting and a few days of being jerked up, down and sideways, i FINALLY found myself a good match of a puppy i could afford.  The first lady i emailed earlier this week wanted $300 for her pups and i was able to talk her down to $180 so i could get one, so happy early Yule to me :D.
I will be getting a sweet little mini dachshund, red/brown (they call it wild boar markings), brown eyes, wont be bigger than morpheus full grown (about 12lbs) and i am SOOOO fucking excited...i wish i could have gotten him tonight but ya know, owner lives in clack and works all day so i can understand not wanting to drive back into town this late, but early tomorrow morning on her way to work miss Jennifer will be dropping off my new friend...i'm pretty sure we're naming him Bozzley, unless something else jumps out at me (and then it can be a middle or last name).
i can assure you, TONS and TONS of photos to come :D LOTS!! i can hardly wait :) heading to bed in a couple hours to try & get some sleep so i'll sound relatively awake when she calls in the morning

random thought, random thorn

 posted from a chat session with my friend earlier-


(12:36:28 PM) mad_hatters_apprentice: ugh roommate has ANOTHER new 'boyfriend' again, he's coming over today...she said he's into computers & that 'he & justin will probably be great friends' and i'm trying to think of a tactful way to say 'um, perhaps some of us aren't comfortable with becoming attached to the presence of other people who aren't going to be around much and thusly don't see much time in spending time getting to know them?'
(12:37:07 PM) mad_hatters_apprentice: also trying to think of a tactful way to say, 'sorry amber but the three of us would prefer to move and just have it be the three of us when we move out, nothin personal, we'd just like it to be a man house' that sounds so sexist :P
(12:38:57 PM) mad_hatters_apprentice: sadly its true, we are all in agreement that we'd prefer it to be just the three of us guys when we move into a house together...we're all kinda sick of living with women (no offense hun, luv ya)

JUSTICE, SWEET JUICY JUSTICE!!

so i went to therapy yesterday and i waited to call in and confirm my subpoena while i was there i case i had a break down over the results of the call...I get transfered to the correct line & let them know my case number...AND...
NO TRIAL FOR ME TODAY!! the bastard decided to show a minute smidgen of intelligence and TAKE THE FUCKING PLEA! instead of me (and the half dozen people who happened upon the scene of the accident) having to come in and testify FIRST THING this morning, i got to sleep in and he was scheduled to plea in front of the judge while i slept.  By the time i got up things should have been done with and they should have moved on to the next number on the docet.
*sigh* i am above and BEYOND relieved that i don't have to go testify.  I got to sleep peacefully last night and sleep in.  I don't have to EVER see this sack of human waste in person, he wont have the chance to get into my head.
I hope he's having nightmares regularly of a dark figure in the corner of his room with their hair pulled down over their face telling him over & over in detail EXACTLY what he did...YOU took Lydia from me you SON OF A BITCH, she's ALL YOURS NOW! may she torment you unto the day someone mercilessly shives you in the shower! some bubba is gonna have some FUN with you mother fucker. :D
anyway, its really REALLY nice to wake up and be able to genuinely smile again and feel somewhat optimistic about the day.  I feel as though i've been in a coma for the last 4 months (its 4 months to the day today you know, it seems like so much longer) and i'm just starting to wake up.  Things WILL get better now :)

amusing how she never realized...

my friend came over to stay the night last night because she just broke up with her fiance a few days ago and didn't want to be alone.  So we sat up until 3am, she had some wine & we smoked and sat around shooting the shit and playing nintendo etc.  gave her a melatonin to help her sleep because she hadn't slept in two days (stuff works like a charm).
anyway, one of the stories i was telling her last night was about the time in 2006 when i went to one last 'family' thanksgiving with my relatives.  blaine & i had been down stairs shooting pool in my grandparents basement & we heard drinks were being served now, so we went upstairs to check out our options.  I wanted something hard but all they had was jack or pendleton whiskey, so i decided to try some jack.  my uncle asks how i take that, neat or one the rocks and i tell him neat.  my grandmother interjects 'you should really have some ice in that' 'nah, i prefer mine straight' grandma interjects again 'you REALLY should have it on the rocks' and for the first time in my life i very gently told my grandmother off 'grandma i know how i like my whiskey, and i like my whiskey neat' and went back to my pool game.  but the look on her face was priceless, you'd think i'd just reached across the table & backhanded her.  amazingly she bit her tongue and didn't make a fuss about it (not while i was there anyway).  that year blaine & i had driven to the gathering in our rental car to drive home the point that my mother had made.  she had told grandma to mind her manners and bite her tongue or i WOULD leave the party, i was an adult now and i DID NOT have to be there, i had graciously chosen to join them for dinner and if she couldn't be civil i COULD and WOULD leave....the most amusing an ironic thing about what my mother did here is: she didn't seem to realize, that applied to my relationship with HER & DON too!  I'm an adult now and i DO NOT have to maintain contact with anyone i DO NOT wish to be in contact with...sucks to be you don't it bitch?

go away world

i HAVE to go get my passport papers turned in TODAY or they're not going to get processed in time for our trip next month.  I just REALLY REALLY don't feel like leaving the house today.  I have a few things i need to get at the store too, but like i said, i don't feel like going out & dealing with the world today. 
I've been up since 8 and i still haven't even eaten breakfast today, just don't have much appetite of late...its probably a cross between teh depression and whatever thsi cold/flu thing i have is.  Talk about being wore out, coffee can't even get me moving.  I've had coffee the last two days only to go to bed a few hours later & sleep ALL night (only getting up in the middle of the night long enough to pee, then passing back out), just exhausted.
It was foggy this morning and i thought, wow what a great setting to go to the cemetery & get photos in...too bad i don't feel like going anywhere.  Since i HAVE to get my papers in TODAY i'm trying to come up with something else i can do while i'm out that will make it feel more worth while.  If i don't i don't get vacation but, frankly, at the moment it feels like the best sort of vacation would be if i could just power down for a while, turn the machine off for a week & have like a 5000 mile service check up, saddly it doesn't work like that when your machine is organic.  *sigh*

pleasant afternoon

had my neice over for a couple hours this afternoon with Inga, she's a surprisingly pleasant child to be around.  And, as i always say, she's so smart.  She just blows me away with how brilliant & incredibly intillectually curious she is.  Today she sat down at the table across from me and was petting our cat Sink, and she turns to me and asks 'where's the new kitty?' and i tell her morpheus went back outside.  She then says 'two outside?' and i'm just astounded, 'thats right cassidy, very good.  i have three kitties, and one is inside and two are outside.  you're so smart'.  positive renforcement of this sort of behavior is VITAL! she's gonna be so smart when she gets older :) (she's SMART now :D).  And NO her dad is NOT sending her out to bum fuck no where middle america to visit baby mama, if she wants to see the kid she can come here.  what are we stupid? you want us to send her to you so you can undo the potty training and the reading and the math? fuck you bitch :P if you REALLY want to see her YOU will make the effort and COME SEE HER (not vice versa...because, and this is true, the kid REALLY doesn't miss you...which is kind of sad but i feel NO sympathy for the bitch, she's just like my mother on a lot of levels and is absolutely useless as a human being). 
All in all it was a very enjoyable afternoon with the kid over, she was trying to wrestle me while i was sitting on the floor, once she warms up to me when she comes over she loves to come give me hugs and sit in my lap and talk to me.  She's a good kid and i LOATHE her mother for ignoring this AMAZING INCREDIBLE little person...i DON"T understand how people like that can IGNORE and look RIGHT PAST this incredible GIFT they've been given (and this is coming from someone who doesn't like kids)...i just don't get it.
We get along really well because she reminds me a lot of me at that age, lot of the same mannerisms, same sort of abandoment issues & similar emotional baggage.  She was having a shy day when she first arrived and inga told her she was being silly because she was all excited to be coming over.  She seemed to have a good time while she was here.  She's generally really well behaved and between inga & i she's VERY easy to keep an eye on.  Gave her hugs when she was heading out and told her i'll see her next week hopefully.  Its nice to know she likes me :)

Feel Good...

I'm feeling pretty ok today.  Had coffee yesterday afternoon and wasn't expecting to sleep well at all but i woke up mid way through the night (as expected) and went right back to sleep afterward & didn't get up until 8:30.  So i got some decent sleep in me. 
Missed the bus to my chiropractic appointment yesterday and had to reschedule for next week, kind of a drag.  However, over the course of the several months that this problem with my neck has been burdening me i have become intimately familiar with the workings of my body in that area and have finally pin pointed the area where the tension collects & causes problems and have also devised a way i can work the tension out with the assistance of blaine (it involves me laying on the floor like roadkill and having him press on my shoulders while i rotate the sockets back into place, painful but effective).  Last night i finally made enough progress that i can yawn unubstructed again :D (you never realize how much you take something like a satisfying yawn for granted until you can't do it comfortably :P).
before showering this morning i did my 175 situps & backlifts and stretches, then i did the dishes & cleaned the kitchen while i waited for my rice to finish cooking.  I'm taking a breakfast break before i vacuum.  I'm hoping Inga & Cassidy will come for  a visit today so i want the house to be clean.  I want to bake cassidy cookies later :) considering introducing her to duck hunt on the original NES since inga doesn't have one. :)
I noticed that my bedroom smelled like cornchips & sweat this morning so i cracked the window & lit a stick of incense, now the nag, the rain and the general masculine smell of the room combined with the lingering smell of pot, it smells JUST like my aunt Jo's house in canada :D (kevin's room always had such a pleasant smell & energy to it & i later realized after i started smoking WHAT that special smell was :D).  YAY for a pleasantly fragrant house :).