nerd out!

even though i was a marvel child, i never really got into ghost rider. i'm not really sure why; it's kind of right up my alley. i actually never got into spawn, either, at least not until i raided jake's comic collection, although it also rests on themes that are pretty appealing to me; vengeance, chains, a battle between the higher powers. anyway, i think that the new movie coming out is going to be pretty cool, so i decided to check out the backstory. as it turns out, both ghost rider and spawn are, like the green lantern, roles that are filled by various people through the years. unlike green lantern, however, both spawn and ghost rider end up in these predicaments (they are considered predicaments rather than an honor, like the ring) by promising their souls to the same demon, mephisto. mephisto is based on the demon mephistopheles (which comes from a latin phrase meaning "friend of faustus), a demon who has become part of christian mythology but who is not mentioned in the bible. the character of mephistopheles is believed to have evolved during the rennaissance, from the popularity of the story of doctor johann georg faust, the basis of goethe's "faust."

i love mythology. i'm going to spend my next three days off in front of the space heater reading a book on greek mythology i ordered from the library.

nothing to report

this is the first time i've had three days off with nothing big to do in quite a while. i know there's some stuff i should do: laundry, returning library books, getting ahead on grad school applications due in february, calling relatives, making any kind of decision. but i didn't do any of that! i read a stephen king novel in front of the space heater, watched numerous episodes of carnivale, and made a bunch of playlists for the car. it was great, like a mini vacation without travelling anywhere. but now i have all these playlists, and no long drives on the radar. i realize that the solution to this would be to clean my room while listening to one of them, but come on. the more time i spend in front of the space heater, the more time i want to spend in front of the space heater. actually, i wanted to go to the park today because it was nice, but jake didn't want to go, and i wasn't about to go by myself, so instead i sat in front of the space heater. tomorrow i'm going to buy a new rpg to play in front of the space heater. space heater space heater space heater space heater

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