"Did he just ... die?" "I don't know! It was really unclear."

Y’know, I don’t care what TV Tropes calls it;* from now on I am calling implicit but not obvious onscreen cartoon deaths “Bruce Timms.”

In somewhat related news, John DiMaggio does a pretty good Joker. He’s no Mark Hamill,** but his Mark Hamill impression is passable. And he puts that deep grainy laugh to very good use.

Dammit, now I want to watch the Batman Animated episode where the Joker menaces that fat guy again. Or maybe the Justice League one where he crashes Lex Luthor's party. Or, well, any Batman episode, really.


*Hell, I don’t even know what they call it, but I’m afraid to look it up.

**Fuck you, Mark Hamill is the default Joker, just as Kevin Conroy is the default Batman and Lou Albano is the default Super Mario.

Back In The Groove

Ah, it’s good to be back at work again. Already had to educate a patron that, when the library aide tells you that you can look at the DVDs after she has shelved them, responding with “I’ll just look at them now” and continuing to paw over the cart will be taken as a cue for the aide to take the cart back behind the desk and go to the bathroom.

Home sweet job.

And speaking of jobs, my brother somehow landed a sweet six-week gig as a receptionist or something up at one of the fancy lodges in Jackson Hole. He leaves tomorrow, which is a bummer because now I won’t have anyone to hang out with down here in the Bat Cave, but which also means that at least I can wander around the Bat Cave without pants on if I so choose.* I am going to have to try this vacation --> job strategy. It seems to work!


*I mostly choose to when I have forgotten my bathrobe, which I manage to do every time I take a shower.