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I accidentally shaved my legs today. It's not as funny as it sounds.

Of course you want to know "but how could you have accidentally shaved your legs?" (And you're probably thinking odd thoughts along the lines of Freudian slips and what constitutes a feminist principle and hey, wtf gender is Jack, anyway?)

It's not all that exciting -- though it was surprising, to me at least. I got over-enthusiastic exfoliating with my pumice stone, never thinking that a freaking rock could function as a razor. Well, you learn something new every day, and all that.

Fortunately the hair's not all gone; just where it was sparsest to begin with, mostly around my ankles. And I think I have razor burn. Or pumice burn, I guess.

Hm. I think this may be my most embarassing, personal, TMI post ever (that wasn't friends-locked). But hey, isn't that what a public diary is meant to be for?

Robin IV, or, Wizard Magazine's spilled the beans

I had to get myself a copy of this month's Wizard magazine. It cost as much as two actual comic books, so the magazine-about-comics is not going to become a regular purchase, but this issue (which just arrived in comics shops yesterday) includes a mini-comic, exclusive to Wizard, that spoils the surprise of who the new Robin debuting in issue #126 will be.

(The cover art for Robin #126 has already been released. I found a nice-sized copy at ToonZone. Their server doesn't allow direct-linking to images, but you can copy-and-paste the URL into your browser window: http://news.toonzone.net/images/2004-02/robin126.jpg)

The Wizard website has been dishing quite a bit about the upcoming shakeups in the Robin title, including this article and this interview which appeared earlier this month.

The flames of speculation about what's going to happen with Tim, Robin, and the new Robin have been -- heh -- fanned to fever pitch in some quarters. Me, I maintain that grumping and swearing to stop reading Robin if Tim is replaced, even temporarily, is equivalent to grumping and swearing to stop reading the Bat-titles when Jean-Paul put on the cowl in Knightfall/KnightQuest/Knight'sEnd... it just means a lot of catch-up later. And I was saying so before I got my hands on the Wizard issue.

But rather than going off on a ranty tangent, let me just share what I found inside the magazine.

( Wizard Magazine's Robin exclusive -- SPOILER WARNING )

Edited: Gah. GAH. I'm really sorry if anyone was inadvertently spoiled by my jizzing up the cut-tag. It's fixed now, as is the toonzone direct-linking issue.