In 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.)
Chocolate + orange is a popular candy flavour. So why isn’t it more popular as an ice cream flavour?
As long as we’re on the subject of vampires, a quiz:
So, 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 blasting the vampires with liquid. When it hits them it burns like acid; the vampires’ faces melt, they collapse screaming, etc.
Less Cool Guy: Damn, that stuff works on them just like acid! What is it, holy water?
Cool Guy: No, it’s acid.
That is all.
Check 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 Hummel.)
[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!
