Journal of the Caribbean Kangaroo

Welcome to the first entry. 
I got words.  Thursday is a rather inauspicious day for such a thing.  I'm scribbling in a sketchbook and "Superman the Animated Series" is on in the background.  Ma Kent just took a shotgun to Braniac.  Cue Shirley Walker music.  

I'm on the 8th chapter of my contribution to the realm of faerie tale literature.  Needs a little polish, of course, but all that means is I need to spend a little bit more time being self-critical.  I'd like this to be my full time job, but I haven't even proven that I can make money at it just yet.  So, as that goes, I'm keeping an eye out for paid work.

Hung up some new pictures in the CaribbeanKangaroo.com gallery.  Also re-visiting a few old ones to make suitable again.  Cartooning is a tough life, but I tried the alternative, (e.g., not-cartooning), and it's just not as fulfilling.

Superman is a great modern myth.  I say "myth" in the definition of "Modern Hero-Story" .   The first definition for "myth" I ever recieved (sometime back in 4th or 5th grade) was "a story that is created to describe the way something is."   Though it's a shame that creating a "myth" these days becomes unlikely...

[I take a moment to check the mail...is it coincidence that my replacement discs for the "Ultimate Superman Collection" arrive while I'm writing my Superman-worship during this LiveJournal maiden voyage?  Or have I summoned them through my Supes-worship?  At any rate--my collection is now complete.  I can now bask in the Saturday-matinee schlock
 that is Richard Lester's "Superman III".  Richard Pryor as Uber-programmer Gus Gorman.  A leap of logic that would not be undone until 2006's "Firewall", when Harrison Ford instilled the same suspension of disbelief in moviegoers everywhere.   But with 79% less humor.]

But while I can write pages and pages of Super-drool, (which, by the way, is a phrase I'm never going to use again outside of LiveJournal), what I can't do is write about Green Lantern.  I mean, what the hell...Green freakin' Lantern.  Why Green?  Why Lantern?  If Green Lantern fought the Silver Surfer, who would win?   My bet's on Green Lantern, but as I said, I can't write about that.  I can't even tell you who the current Green Lantern of this particular galaxy IS.   Kyle Rainer?  Hal Jordan?  Guy Gardner?  John Stewart?  (Who is not the host of the Daily Show--that's Jon Stewart, but let me tell you, The Daily Show would be almost 90% Greener with John Stewart.  But probably only 10% more Lanterny.)

Off I go.  Stay in touch, won't you?
--Steve.

Current Location: Floor, on Laptop.
Current Music: Shirley Walker