Letter to Julia 20120511

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

I had to watch "The Avengers" last night.  I don't usually watch a movie just as it's being a blockbuster, Julia.  I usually wait until it becomes cheaper and more convenient, but I had my orders.  I'm more of a mutant lover myself.  The X-men movies were good even though Wolverine was too tall and too talkative, but a letdown compared with the comic books I grew up on.  I suppose it has something to do with everything being crammed into 2 hours with people living out their lives as quickly as possible with near zero character development.  But I was a spotty little comic geek when I was young anyway with no other life worth living, and totally in lovelust with cartoon girls.  In fact, I was such a loser that I wrote a letter to the X-men some time after the Great Mutant Massacre.  Damn, it got published.  But I gave up the bad habit of collecting comics when the franchise became more franchisey, and my favorite writer got diluted into the corporation.  I sold my entire valuable comic collection for US$200, which is probably worth 40 times that much today.  C'est la vie.

Oh, about "The Avengers", I really loved it when the Hulk beat up on the demigods, and from the sound of it, the crowd loved it too.  And Scarlett Johansson should have been the Scarlet Witch instead of the Black Widow.  Or even the Wasp.  But I'm not really much of an Avengers fan, so I guess it doesn't really matter.  At least to me.

Qur'an 20120511

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

28.  They say, "When will this Decision be, if you are telling the truth?"

29.  Say, "On the Day of Decision, no profit will it be to unbelievers if they believe!  Nor will they be granted a respite."

The Prostration 32:28-29
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On the Day of Decision, no profit will it be to unbelievers if they believe!  Nor will they be granted a respite.