Sidewalk Superheroes

. . . said the Caterpillar to Alice. Anyway, I’m uploading video to YouTube for Catwoman and uploading some pictures to Flickr (have I really already uploaded 75M this month?), and Numb3rs is on in the background. It opens with a tour group boarding a bus in front of the Chinese Theatre with a Marilyn Monroe impersonator in the background (I missed it, so I don’t know if it was one of our girls, or some paid extra), and they somehow manage to drive west and past the Kodak Theatre. The Kodak is just east of the Chinese Theatre, so the bus either circumnavigated the globe in about a minute, or they circled the block for no reason. Honestly, the writers live here, it’s one of the most famous city blocks in the world, and they can’t get it right? Maybe I just complain too much. Plus, they called it the Bodak Theatre, so someone was too cheap to get permission to use Kodak’s name. Huh.

Anyway, here’s some snaps of me improving Batgirl 2.0 and making her rock.

black and blue

I took off the bat logo from crap Batgirl 1.0’s costume, and the trim was blue. It would have looked funny, and Batgirl is black and yellow — unless we’re talking Yvonne Craig’s marvelous purple Batgirl, which is what 1.0 was supposed to be — so I took a Sharpie to the trim. It worked surprisingly well; it didn’t bleed onto the yellow, really, and the colour held pretty well. It still looks a bit blue-black in sunlight, but another going over should take care of that.

ready for her close-up

cape town

The cape that came with 1.0 was okay, black and yellow cheap satin, but it was sewn together in the stupidest way possible. There was a slit in the back with a useless tie back there, since they were lazy and just sewed the cape to the costume, and the black and yellow were just basted together with a sloppy overlock stitch. So I took it apart, sewed up the slits in back, sewed the two colours together properly:

moody bat

and sewed the tie on properly so it looks like a real cape:

the feeling is mutual

I also took in my catsuit a lot to make it good and snug, but I forgot to take pictures of that. I do have pictures from today’s work, though I’m not in them because I was snapping them, but it’s getting late and I need to shower. Tomorrow’s another long day!

Hey there. Catwoman and I have been busy working this weekend, and we have a few stories and pictures (Superman Returns!), but I’m not going to do them yet. We went out with Photographer Friend and a couple of his friends, and, well, I didn’t get home until 5 AM. I have no idea what happened to Catwoman, I sort of left her to her own devices. I also can’t believe I’m awake right now, I should still be out cold. But no hangover and no regrets!

Anyway, maybe tonight I’ll get all the pictures uploaded and my brain will be working normally so I can remember what all happened. I just found a note I wrote to myself that says, “My left is drunk! -me,” which tells you what state of mind I was in a few short hours ago. It was actually supposed to say, “My left foot is drunk!” because I was wearing little black flats and someone dropped their beer, getting some into my shoe. I said, “My left foot is drunk!” and we all laughed because the rest of us were just as drunk, and I thought it was so clever I wrote it down. Now you see how stupid I become, and what a recovery it will be.

In the meantime, I did get a new toy to play with, and it came in ahead of schedule, always a nice surprise:

ignore the mess

work in progress

I just threw it on as soon as the package was opened, it’ll look better on the boulevard. And I did cut off the tag afterwards. Okay, I have to eat. I’m starving.