The movie is getting good reviews. Enjoy it with your son, Zman. I was a Spidey fan as a kid. Thwip-p-p-p-p!!!!

And I forgot to mention that I don't have XM radio so I won't get to hear your no doubt riotous performance today. darn. darn, darn, darn

Weenie.

Bam, Kerpow,Boff, Zap, and Blam are all from the Batman TV show, which was a DC comic, enemy of all that was Marvel-ous. What made Marvel so much better was the writing of Stan Lee and the incredible artwork of Jack "King" Kirby.

I was 12 when the first issue of FF came out. Best dime I ever spent. I grew up with Thor, Dr. Strange, Spidey, Hulk, and countless others in the Marvel Universe. To this day, I still have 9 long boxes of comics, all bagged and boarded.(I was a comic dealer in another lifetime).

The comic heroes you mention in today's blog must definitely be DC heroes, because they're not NEAR cool enough to be Marvel characters.

Enjoy Iron Man w/ your son. May the All-seeing Eye of Agamotto watch over you.

Excelsior!

Holy Z-man...let's not forget Pommade Man, the life and times of Rev. Al Sharpton. KERPOW!!!I'm off to Key West for a week of sun, tequila, and smoking cigars wherever and whenever I want!!! Good luck on the radio.

Have a great one Brian. Key West is one of my favorite places in the world and no better place on earth to relax with a cigar.

That movie looks so cool. I cannot wait either.

Why attack OPEC so much zman? Don't you realize what single country we import the most oil from? Maybe you need to do some googling. Damn, there I go with those facts again, stupid me.

Why do you defend OPEC so much?
You own stock in bed sheets or something?

Superman is the only action hero ever, the rest are all imposters.

Oh, yeah, Robert, knock off the facts crap! We can play in Zman's world but we live in ours

I'm sure Tony Stark is played by some young Hollywood stud, but I'm interested to see who the heroine, Virginia "Pepper" Potts is played by. With a name like "Pepper" she has to be HOT!
If I was to compare GWB to a comic book character, it would be more like Jughead from the Archies.

Gwyneth Paltrow & Robert Downey Jr.

Why do you defend OPEC so much?
You own stock in bed sheets or something?
Posted by zman

I never defended anyone. But nice slide on avoiding the question oh blog-master.

But I will answer your question, because that is the polite thing to do. I am not certain if I own stock in bed sheets. I am very diversified and finding the exact companies that alot of my funds invest in is rather tedious. Personally myself, I like bed sheets that have a minimum thread count of 300. If you get the 400+ thread count, they are as soft and smooth as satin. Perfect for sleeping nekid. LOL

Dodger fan wrote:

Superman is the only action hero ever, the rest are all imposters.

What about the Governator himself - he was "The Last Action Hero".

Don't you realize what single country we import the most oil from?

I guessed Canada and I was right. Are there any oil companies that get all of their gas from Canada only?
At least we could keep our greenbacks here in the Western Hemisphere. Or just take it from them, Canada would be easy to take over...

I know today's topic is Ironman. I get caught up in the oil
discussion very easily.

Ironman was my second favorite Marvel comics character. Spidy was of course #1 and always will be. Time has been a premium lately zman, but your columns keep on rockin' and are fun to read.

Tommy, you forgot yourself: Z-Man! Using his powers of sarcasm and internet access to defend cigar smoking and plain common sense against the idiots of the world!

OK, Saturday I leave to go on vaction up to my cabin in Michigan, let's do something fun tomorrow, like who's the sweetest news babe - Fox and friends Alisyn Camerota or CNN's Robin Meade.

Zman was great on Ron and Fez today. THey didn't give him much time but it was fun as ususal. Fez is actually going into a psychiatric ward for a week and Zman asked if he woud do plugs for his blog in the nut hut! Ron said he could crawl up in the corner and talk into a banana. I was frieaking howling!

I heard that Zman's bit on the show was about as entertaining and funny as Gerald Ford's Whip Inflation Now speech. LMAO!!!!

Robert, opec has shown itself to be the enemy for as long as I can remember, ever since they first formed. Instead of a free and open market between rival oil producers, they created a virtual monopoly, and used it to club the united states over and over. They were the largest exporter of oil to the US, and all they have to do is tweak anything to cause repercussions world wide. Does the word embargo mean anything? They were the enemy, they are still the enemy, in that they are doing their damnedest to wound our economy, while every one of the individual countries chortle in their underwear at what they are doing to us in other ways.

Yeah, Venezuela is a gas, aren't they? Once again, sell us oil, and then feed a dictatorship, terrorists, and various other unsavory causes.

Whatever is done, no matter the cause, no matter the event, no matter what the immediate results are, that butterfly will ricochet mindlessly just as far as it can go. When goober's garage closed and a seven eleven opened up, who checked aunt bee's tires, since Andy and opie were both partying in california? Could that be why she slid her buick into that busload of schoolchildren on the road home from bingo at mount pilot?

Poor goober, out of work and hopelessly hooked on meth, and a whole busload of school children incinerated because Aunt bee wants to fill her fifty gallon tank out of town, rather than to support the home of the slurpee.

BTW, Zman, Don't look to Skitzoman to save the world. He's still trying to get the best of doc shock and his evil henchmen.

briandg, Venezuela has been a member of OPEC for a very, very long time. That little fact makes zman's bed-sheets comment sound a little racist doesn't it. But then again, there go those facts.

Oil is a world-wide commodity that there just does not seem to be enough to satisfy the world's thirst for. True, when the oil producing countries got the balls to form together and form OPEC, it sounded like heresy to us Capitalists in the United States, but when you look at their reasons for doing it, it was sound. One country would open their taps up and start selling the oil at a reduced price which would cause the global price of oil to plummet. So they banded together and decided to work as team and not undercut each other and hence as a team they all make the maximum profit. When OPEC was formed, oil was ridiculously cheap, so they have achieved in getting the price to where it belongs. Tommy is right that it is getting out of control, but what can we do? Have we done like most of the European countries and tried to achieve some energy independence? Of course not, because the average Joe thinks it is their right to drive a gas-guzzler and the thought of car-pooling or taking public transportation is for wimps. So who's fault is it that OPEC has the USA by the balls? Is it okay for us to just go steal some country's oil because we are the big-bad USA? All of this would be a senseless argument if some of the numbers were different. Say the USA produced 30% of the world's oil instead of only 10%. The USA would of been a founding member of OPEC and OPEC would be a good word. But that is just a dreamworld and we consume 25% of the world's oil. So somewhere we need to come up with the missing 15%, and yes, some foreign countries know that they win. The disappointing thing is that it has been this way for a long time and still nothing has been done about it. Okay, one thing has been done and we now have an oil reserve such that what happened in the 70's never happens again and the risk of lots of people dying is gone. But we are so far behind European countries at gaining energy independence.

Didn't Gomer work for Goober? I know he joined the Marines, but didn't he go back to the garage after his hitch was done?

So I poke fun at what they wear on their heads and that makes me a hate monger?

Man, you have a low tolerance level.

Please, can't we all just get along?

I'm pissed as hell and I'm not going to take it any more!!!

Of course I don't remember what I'm pissed about, or what it is that I'm not going to take any more. Maybe Ex-lax.

I'm so confused.