Like A High School English Exercise: How My Day Went

I just have this neurotic compulsion to document my day. I woke up.
Checked my mail. Read 2 back issues of Birds of Prey written by Chuck
Dixon. Took the bus to Magallanes to have my retainers checked by my
dentist. Said dentist asked me once again for my plans in life and I
realized once again that I don’t have any. Then went to Druid’s Keep,
my favorite comicbook/collectible shop, and looked for action figures
and comic books. Realized I have no money, and just watched the
businessmen in their 30s saying this: "hey I like this Spiderman
figurine. P20,000? OK I’ll get one. I’ll also have four of those
Simpsons talking pens. Wait I already have Apu. I missed the last five
issues of 52. Please bag them. I’ll also have the complete set of
Superman/Batman series 3." I quietly slinked away, not buying anything.
Walked from Magallanes to the Mantrade MRT station, surprised that all
the pirated DVD vendors were gone. Ate Kenny Rogers Fried Chicken
Sandwich. Bought The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told volume 2 in
National Bookstore. Saw Richard Matheson’s short story collection
featuring the story made into a fun Twilight Zone episode and Simpsons
Treehouse of Terror parody where a monster was trying to dismantle a
plane. Realized I want a copy of Twilight Zone episodes, all 156 of it.
My favorite is "It’s a Good Life!" featuring the evil Bill Mumy, which
was also parodied in the Simpsons, where Homer was transformed into a
Jack-in-the-Box. Realized in just a couple of months the Simpsons movie
would be out, after 18 years of waiting. I hope it won’t suck.


May 13, 2007