Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Tuesday Night Twee #4

The word "twee" does not always involve or imply romance, but it certainly can. Runaways #28 gives us the sight of a charming young lass and a dashing android boy literally dancing on air.

This is certainly a star-crossed little romance on many levels, not the least of which is the fact that relationships between androids and super-powered women do not tend to end well. Although, to be fair, Victor and Lillie seem more well-adjusted than Vision and Wanda...

Oh, whatever. Best not to overthink.

Sunday, November 25, 2007

The Radio Dial

I really need to get reacquainted with a few of my local radio stations. Well, not the country station. That one hasn't changed in forever, and I don't care much for country music anyway. The rock station will no doubt stick with its usual annoying metal, and the public stations will also stay true to their mission. But the others? Not so much.

One of them used to be an oldies format, but it switched to R&B/Hip-Hop for a while, and now it seems to be a Top 40 of some sort. I think that's where I first came across Colbie Caillait's "Bubbly." (Damn that song. Generally speaking, I enjoy cuteness, but I have a lower threshold for it when it comes to music. Sometimes its better if the twee does not get stuck in your head.)

And then there's the station that used to be Top 40, back when I was in middle school or maybe early high school and came to the realization that sometimes pop music can be good. I used to listen to the Billboard Countdown on weekends, keeping track of the latest Sophie B. Hawkins single ("As I Lay Me Down" is still and will always be a great song.) or whatever for some reason, until most of the music on the list started sounding the same and sleeping in became more important than listening to Casey Kasem. That didn't take long. The station changed formats, and now plays... Top 40. Sort of. It's the same music I listened to back when, plus current stuff like "Bubbly" plus Queen. And Mellencamp. Can't forget him, not when said station played "Cherry Bomb" today, which I hadn't heard in I don't know how long.

Hrm. Oh, yes, and we can't forget the station that used to be classic rock, which was virtually identical to another area classic rock station. Seriously, I couldn't tell them apart. Now, of course, I can, as one of them is now some sort of Adult Easy Listening station, the kind they pump out into doctors' waiting rooms. I first realized it had changed formats when my dad flipped to its frequency and it was playing a romantic duet from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Not classic rock anymore! Which is sad.

I'm not sure what else there is to be found. Probably plenty. What am I missing...?

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Tuesday Night Twee #3

We have already discovered that everyone's favorite Amazon Princess is great with animals. Now we know she's also talented with Animals. This week's twee therefore comes from last week's Wonder Woman #14, in which Diana takes on some interesting houseguests:

Interesting, insightful houseguests who are good at hiding, playing chess and...


...drinking beer.

I like those gorillas.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Tuesday Night Twee #2

This week's twee comes from last week's All New Atom #17.

Yes, the dog is adorable. Put an adorable fluffy animal in the arms of a princess (even an Amazon princess in disguise), and you get... well, duh, you get twee.

Head is not a cute fluffy animal, but Diana seems to have him tamed as well. Because she is a princess and can do that. It's like Disney in Ivy Town:


Come to think of it, there probably is a wormhole to the Disneyverse in Ivy Town, though it's no doubt heavily guarded by hoards of copyright lawyers and whatnot...

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Tuesday Night Twee

So many people do these weekly things. Friday Night Fights, Thursday Night Thinking... That's all fun, but I think twee needs a day, too. And Tuesday is appropriately alliterative. Hence Tuesday Night* Twee.

I have no idea how long I'll be able to keep this up, but it does not take much thought, finding things that are excessively cute, yet somehow not nauseating. Once you know what you're looking for, that is.

This, for example, is twee:

At least, I think it is. This is all very subjective.

Anyway, this first Tuesday Night Twee was brought to you by Mythos: Fantastic Four.

*I am not technically posting this at night, but it's always nighttime somewhere...