Comic Books

I always liked superheroes. When I was younger I collected Marvel trading cards, and later comics books that I didn't read. Cause who likes to read, right? Then one day I picked up just the right comic. All of the sudden I was hooked. Comics became like crack, I spent tons of money on old comics, new comics, variant comics of issues I already owned. I spent hours on Comic fan forums like this one, http://www.comixfan.com/, arguing with my fellow fanboys. Eventually, I was lucky enough to be excepted into Marvel Comics' internship program, and actually had a hand in creating what I loved so much.

What happened to manners?

Lately I've noticed that people just don't have manors and if they have them, they sure as hell ain't using them. I work as a bartender (mixologist, if you're pretentious) at a catering hall. People come to expensive Weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. They put on expensive clothes and their best jewlery. They spend hours making themselves look as classy as possible. However, they tend to forget that a big part of class is following the standards of culture and politness. It might be suave for James Bond to order his Martini's without a 'please' at the end, but having some loud woman huff and puff her way to the front of my bar, only to brashly call out "Cosmopolitan," isn't cool at all. I guess I wouldn't mind as much if people tipped at catered parties.

First Post - Genesis

Ironically, the subject of my first post is going to be firsts. There are the cliche firsts, first day of school, first kiss, the first time you get sick from too much tequila. There are the important firsts, the first amendment for example, which gives me the right to say, "I'd like to FIRST beat up the President, before running him over with my car." The first time you do something, see something, are challenged by something, it can be scary. First, by definition, evokes mystery, no one knows the result of an action if it's the first time it's being done. A first has no predecessor, no source for comparison. Nobody likes to go first, and if they say they do give them a parachute at 30,000 feet and see how quick they are to be first. Just about the only thing first has an advantage over is last. I never thought I'd be a blogger. At first, I didn't know what to write . It was intimidating to write my first post, but as the saying goes, there's a first for everything. Mainly, the thing I learned from this, my very first blog post, is that first is one of those words that loses it's meaning after you say it twenty-one times...(you can count, if you don't believe me)