This weekend, I throw myself into the new draft of Cheap Noir, but tonight...

By now, anyone reading the internet has heard endless praise for Iron Man.  Every trailer and blip I catch about it has excited me in a way I haven't felt since I was hyping myself up for The Phantom Menace.  Even my anticipation for Spider-man 2 and Return of the King was mitigated by my commitment to my own projects at the time.  What did those films have to offer me that I wasn't giving myself?  Why should I look elsewhere?

Everyone who knows me knows my heroes are men like Charlie Chaplin, Howard Hughes, and Nelson Mandela and Julius Caesar - great men who accomplished their goals by answering every challenge with self-development.  These men wound up amassing global resources and bettering life for everyone, simply because their ability to reimagine themselves was greater than the combined imaginations of everyone pitted against them.

On top of that, I love the possibilities behind technology as a resource.  Many of my long-term business plans lean in that direction, and most of my stories revolve around technology as a theme. 

I look forward to my reign as a philanthropic billionaire industrialist adventurer, and I plan to get there telling fantastic stories, and by offering hope and tools for a better world.  Watching someone learn that lesson on the big screen and then put on power armor...  Come on!

Take all that, add the outrageously gifted Robert Downey Jr., the brilliance of Stan Winston, the delivery on Jon Favreau's enthralling creative potential, and a primary color scheme, and it's a miracle I'm able to focus on this blog.  I should be hypnotized.

This will be my first film with my new robo-foot.  Perhaps I should wait, but there's no way I'm going to.  This is too much fun to miss out on!