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Nice slow day yesterday. Made up for the early morning alarm call.

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Talked a bit with GP yesterday, and conversation spun around to musical renditions of super-heroes.

Trapped in a pyramid he saw a light!
It came from a glowing meteorite!
Sending cosmic rays stronger than the sun
Through his body and brain, and when it was done
There! (Where?)
There! (Where?)
There…stood The Element Man!

Or.. there sat the Element Man, clipping his toenails. That’s one of my favorite images of him, just because it’s plain goofy. Dollars to doughnuts, I’ll be the top hit page for superhero toenails, just you wait, dear journal. Man, did he get overkill… a pyramid, a caveman, and a meteorite all in the same first few pages of his career. Another thing about his theme: I think of They Might Be Giants – Minimum Wage theme when the snare drum lead in to his music starts to play.

Not to be outdone, Katt sent me this Spider-man song… “Square-Boy” I’ve stowed them on a freebie space, to save my bandwidth. rather than streaming, I’d advise right-clicking and save as… then wait ten minutes as it rolls down the pipe. Square Boy is some sort of weird mix of Queen and Schoolhouse Rock. I fear that it’ll be in my noggin when I go to see Spidey 2: Electric Boogaloo, at the end of this month.

The tune is from the Original Spidey Rock opera. I just might see if I can pick up a copy of the whole thing. I can hear Christopher Walken (as the Continental) saying the Wow-Wowee line in my head as clear as day. I think he’s my favorite SNL guest. More Cowbell, Trivial Psychic, The Centaur Job Intervewer, that “Boulevard of Broken Balls” song, and Pot Roast as Badger-bait.

GP mentioned that Troy was worth seeing, though the small screen would be fine. Apparently Pam hated it, but I’m happy that there was a big horse and a lot of fighting. I figure that I’ll have to watch it in pieces, because three hours of an “okay” movie sounds to be a bit much.

Chain Saw Injury Statistics. Nifty graphic.

Man, how times have changed. I can now emulate Atari ST games on my palm. I’m looking forward to Dungeon Master, Populous, and Civilization.

I’m going to want to see this again in a year. When Mr. T’s A-Team construction abilities go horribly wrong.

Man in Colo. Bulldozer Rampage Found Dead

GRANBY, Colo. – Crews using a crane Saturday removed the body of local man who tore up a good part of this mountain resort town with an improvised tank.

Friends said Marvin Heemeyer hadn’t been seen much lately, and now they know why: He was turning a bulldozer into an armor-plated vehicle that was impervious to SWAT team bullets.

Heemeyer on Friday plowed the armor-plated bulldozer into the town and within two hours had knocked down or damaged nine buildings before the machine ground to a halt in the wreckage of a warehouse. He then apparently shot himself, said Grand County Sheriff Rod Johnson. No one else was injured.

City officials said he was angry over a zoning dispute and fines for city code violations at his business in the town about 50 miles west of Denver.

Heemeyer’s buddy Pete Mitchell said his friend was probably smiling when the tank, equipped with a TV camera for guidance, busted out of the side of a garage.

“That’s the kind of guy he was,” Mitchell said, calling his friend “vindictive.”

Heemeyer loved to weld, and this surely was his masterpiece, probably constructed over a several-month period, he said.

Town manager Tom Hale said Heemeyer was angry after losing a zoning dispute over land near his muffler shop. Heemeyer also had been fined $2,500 in a separate case for not having a septic tank and other city code violations at his business, Hale said.

When he paid the fine, he enclosed a note with his check saying “Cowards,” Hale said.

Heemeyer’s first target was a shop at the cement plant, which sat about 100 yards from where he built the armor-plated bulldozer. He also damaged a newspaper office, town hall-library, bank, hardware store and a utility office.

Nothing had seemed out of the ordinary at his corrugated-metal building, where he kept cars, snowmobiles, boats, and now it seems a bulldozer. Mitchell said Heemeyer hadn’t been seen much of late.

His skills as a welder were legendary, Mitchell said.

“He could change a muffler by himself in 20 minutes,” Mitchell said. “No wasted motion. He knew what he was doing.”

Investigators believe he spent several months planning and building the quarter- to half-inch concrete box that no police bullet could penetrate. Described by some witnesses as resembling a large dumpster, up close police could see the details of Heemeyer’s handiwork, hydraulic lines and a radiator. Heemeyer had installed TV cameras connected to three monitors so he could see where he was going.

“How he built this was amazing,” said Grand County Commissioner James Newberry. “This was a very intelligent man. Once you saw the way his workshop was set up it’s possible.”

After blasting the box three times police discovered hinges that allowed them to pull out an air conditioning unit and get into the box. Crews had to use a crane to remove Heemeyer’s body. Police initially believed he had welded himself shut.

Once inside, investigators discovered four weapons, a .50 caliber rifle, two military style assault rifles and a handgun.

The time of death was under investigation. Officers heard a shot fired from inside the box around 4 p.m. Friday. His death was confirmed about early Saturday morning, and the body removed later Saturday.