In other news, Avatar comes out on DVD today...

OK, that's not a Direhorse or whatever, it's a Micronauts Centaurus, but close enough for some fun. It's funny, but I never saw the Avatar animal action figures as often as I did the corporate-oppressor Scorpion gunship or AMP suit. I might've picked up an AMP if I'd seen one on sale, but I never did, and I don't think the larger Joe figures would fit anyway.

While I don't particularly care, and won't get it myself; I am morbidly curious to see how well Avatar does on DVD, although I suppose it might come with enough bells-and-whistles to offset the downside of seeing it on a smaller screen. The TV spots seem to be pushing it as "Return to Pandora," like it's some mystical journey; or rather the same way a lot of fans felt about Middle-Earth in the Lord of the Rings movies. I don't think that level of investment is there...is it?

And it's Earth Day, and I'm currently mildly annoyed since even though I've been walking to work lately, I had to drive today since I have to do stupid errands. Swell. Of course, and I had a great science teacher in high school that correctly pointed this out; the only good thing you can really do for the environment? Die. And even then, your smelly carcass is messing up the place...

I wonder if a science teacher could say that today, without being branded a left-wing agitator or advocate for teen suicide. But that wasn't his point, the point is, even if you're living the jungle primeval, using rocks for tools and eating berries, you're still having an impact on your environment. A significantly smaller impact, yes, but you're still changing it.

So, as corporations pay lip service to this made-up day, I always get the feeling that America, and the world in general, will never get off of oil; until every last drop of profit has been squeezed out of it by the oil industry, the auto industry, etc. Then, miraculously, some new technology will be discovered, that you'll have to pay for, and buy new cars, and blah, blah, blah.

I guess I try to "live greener," or as greener as an average work-a-day guy with a metric ton of dead tree comics and petroleum-based plastic action figures can be. I just don't have a very good attitude about it.