Et In Arcadia Ego
Feb 15In Neil Gaiman’s Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? (part 1 out this week), when asked “Are you Death?” a shadowy female figure responds “I don’t think Death is a person.” (For those who don’t get the irony: one of Gaiman’s most popular characters is a female personification of Death.)
A Puzzlement
Feb 14Chocolate + orange is a popular candy flavour. So why isn’t it more popular as an ice cream flavour?
Born To Be Vlad
Feb 14As long as we’re on the subject of vampires, a quiz: By what means do vampires customarily kill? By what means do vampire hunters customarily kill? By what means did Vlad the Impaler customarily kill? Why is Vlad the Impaler so frequently imagined as a vampire rather than, say, a vampire hunter?
Acid Reflux
Feb 14So, I have this idea for a scene in a movie, but I have no idea for the rest of the movie, so here’s the scene. Some people find it really funny, others are like “what?” The characters are fighting a bunch of vampires, and the Cool Guy takes out this water cannon and starts [...]
Watching the Watchmen More Closely
Feb 14Check out Ross Levatter’s terrifically detailed ongoing analysis of Alan Moore’s Watchmen – or, more accurately, of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, since a great deal of the analysis concerns the artwork. Levatter has noticed and documented all sorts of fascinating details that just went right by me before. (Conical hat tip to Jeff [...]
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 2
Feb 14[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] A lot of people who voted for Obama probably thought he would be different from his predecessor on the whole kidnapping-people-and-taking-them-to-other-countries-to-be-tortured thing. Turns out, not so much. (Conical hat tip to Stephan Kinsella.) Yes he can!
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