GENE: DINOSAUR



the host was reading the (news)papers last night and a couple of articles surprised me. one was a book review section and it discussed how the dragonlance books, specifically the legends trilogy, changed the reviewer’s life (said reviewer is in high school and possibly reading the 3rd printing of the book). i read the legends when i was high school. it was one of my beloved books back then. how could i resist a story about raistlin (looks around the cranium to check if the raistlin persona is listening, wouldn’t want to stroke his ego) especially when it was about the him in the height of his power and his subsequent downfall.



another article which caught my eye was that magic the gathering (the collectible card game) is coming out with it’s 45th expansion in the coming month. 45th!!! it’s been around that long? why, i can still remember the time jd pulled out and gave away cards from the beta set. i wonder how one would pick his cards if they would still allow type one games.



of course, there was also the spider-man articles since it started showing at the local theaters yesterday. spider-man was around since i started with comic books. ageless! much like the new cartoon of the teen titans which is being shown on the cartoon network. even if it’s kinda different from the hard copies I collected back in the days, the general idea’s still there.



reading these articles is complex. for one thing, one should feel happy that all the stuff one loved when he was a kid is still there. however, it is also kinda sad that even if these sources of glamour are around, one cannot help to think that the amount gathered from them is still not enough to help one and those around him to stave off the effects of winter like it used to. maybe it’s just the fact that people change (read: grow old) and thus one must learn to adapt to things and events around him but he still needs to hold on to some things or else one would totally lose himself in the mundane ness of life itself and eventually be extinct like the dinosaurs they are now.