"Kimchi."

Have I ever had kimchi? I don't think so; partly because I don't want to get a bad batch and hate it. I need to wait until I'm somewhere with "the best" kimchi and start there. Or if anybody can recommend any.

Spidey isn't sticky, but I'm at least 40% sure he can make other parts of his body besides his hands and feet adhesive. I think I'm going off an old OHOTMU entry, where his wall-crawling abilities aren't a physical adaptation, but something either psionic or static-electricity based. (Spidey 2099 had little claws, which, while neat, in no way accounted for the overall effectiveness of his wall-crawling!) Of course Spidey could make himself a little web-holster, but where would he be then in an hour? (Also, I can't make a little holster.) 

Forge has had a couple of stints, or chances, to be a lead: his run in X-Factor comes to mind. I don't know if he gets the respect he maybe should; possibly because he was involved with Storm, then Mystique, both of whom could very much do better. Sorry, Forge! I know there was a bit of a breakup issue for him and Storm, yet I still feel like his relationships just trail off. Not unlike my posts...No, to me Forge is always gonna be the guy sending Bishop back in time to do something stupid, then claim it was for something else when he got back. Also, neither Kurt, nor Forge, nor myself apparently, have been paying enough attention to what goes on on Krakoa. Their cooking could be the bomb, I have no idea.

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"Bag."

I've long had the opinion, that while Forge is smart as hell, some of the crap he 'invents' with his mutant power shouldn't work at all. Like if you were to take them apart, the pieces wouldn't even make sense. Something like how Tweedledope created Widget in Excalibur: Forge's gadgets are probably full of apple cores, change, drug store receipts...(I had to look up Tweedledope, since I'm not positive he's referred to by name in Excalibur. And, he was created by Alan Moore and Alan Davis and killed by Deadpool? That seems just like him, honestly.) Forge's inventions work because of his power, like altering reality in a limited area. Or maybe not! 

I could also be wrong about this, but I don't think we see Reed and Ben hang out enough in a non-FF, non-family, non-work setting. I'd be glad to see them go to the fights, a game, Dave and Busters, whatever. I also doubt Reed gets in on the traditional poker games, partly because he's incapable of not counting cards; but I suspect he doesn't bluff. At least, not at first: Reed plays each hand like math, betting precisely calculated amounts based on his odds. He wouldn't bluff, until late in the game when he realizes he could. He probably has some weird, stretchy twitch to his poker face, though. Probably not quite Elongated Man's nose, but...Moreover, Reed has almost certainly made a ton of super-deadly crap, probably unintentionally; or items ripe for misuse. This could explain why Reed's inventions haven't trickled down to the general populace: his tech could all be based on the same general principles, so if you understand something as harmless as a hovercycle, you could build a mega-death ray. 

Does Ben still drink? I know he used to like a frosty brew back in the day, but I haven't seen him chug any of late.

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