Oh, I could hide 'neath the wings

As those of you who have shopped there will know, and those of you who haven't can probably guess, the La Jolla Trader Joe's has a mildly eclectic clientele. Sometimes, as I notice people, I get the feeling that I'm looking into my future. Will I become, for example, the wire-rim bespectacled dude with the heather gray sweater and tan khakis, the color of whose skin, eyes, and amorphous hair all fall somewhere between those two hues? Or will I be more like the one wearing a shiny bottle green overcoat and Matt Brown pants, with weird glasses? Suddenly my destiny is hanging in the balance, right there in the checkout line.
Enough of that...I have other, equally pointless observations to make. For example, speaking of weird glasses, one unfortunate side effect of my new glasses that I've noticed is the sudden desire to punch myself whenever I walk into the Apple Store.
Also, most of you have probably noticed that I sign my emails with a rather succinct "-E." For some reason, though, it feels really weird to get replies addressed that way.
Lastly, and title-relevantly, it turns out that in season 1 of the Tick, Arthur was totally voiced by Micky Dolenz. !!!

Follow my lead, oh how I need Someone to watch over me

Hey, I just discovered that the art for Kudos 2 was done by Jamie McKelvie of Phonogram, so that's pretty neat.

So, Watchmen was pretty good. It could have used slightly less action, I suppose, especially slow motion action, but it sort of goes with the territory. It makes sense for to present Nite Owl's fight scenes using gimmicky action movie effects for the same reason that it makes sense for him to wear that sort of costume. Less forgivable is the fact that he can punch walls and limbs hard enough that they explode.
Actually, I think I'll just follow Drew's example and direct you to to the AV Club's Book vs Film which nicely presents some of the movie's shortcomings and gives a rundown of some of the differences from the original.
But on the whole, I enjoyed it, I really enjoyed some parts of it ("The Times They Are A-Changin'," oh man), and I'll likely want to watch it more than once to catch all the details and references and easter eggs, and am only a little bit deterred from this by the fact that it's slightly shorter than, say, Lawrence of Arabia, as well as my own general disinclination to see dudes' arms getting sawed off.