Hey everyone! It’s the most important anniversary of the millennium! It’s the ten year anniversary of PDR XXX! I encourage you all to celebrate by thinking about me while you achieve orgasm.

Anyway, my last few years have been downers. Let’s maybe turn that around, why not?

Must be exhausting to be the sun
spending all day heading west
giving daylight to everyone
and never getting any rest.

Myself, I can’t give off daylight
but still I’ve tried to be giving.
My own orbit through the night
is nearer over than beginning.

I’ve almost gone ’round four decades of times
and so far this is what I can tell you:
The best parts go by way too fast,
The rest takes too long to get through.

I like the Rocket Racer.

It’s true. There’s a character in the Marvel Universe named the Rocket Racer, aka Robert Farrell. He’s a skateboard-using super-criminal who sometimes is a good guy. Nobody who knows me would be surprised to learn I like a character like the Rocket Racer. He’s obscure and kind of goofy and has been badly misused. In a way he’s a perfect example of a type of character I am drawn to in a shared superhero universe.

As it stands right now, nobody much cares about the Rocket Racer, but I see a lot of potential there. With that in mind, I intend to add to my usual Superman Thoughts posts this year by doing a handful of Rocket Racer Thoughts posts, and maybe even do more than that in the long run.

But here’s a quick summary of what I will be getting at:

• Rocket Racer doesn’t want to be a criminal, he wants to be a Robin Hood figure.
• Simultaneously, he is a self-hating sellout.
• Rocket Racer is too old and could probably be replaced.
• Rocket Racer is probably aromantic or asexual.
• Rocket Racer should probably go to war against the Avengers.

Anyway, that’s just a taste. Much more to come.