On Colbert I just saw Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air (a book about Priestley), saying that before Priestley there were no scientific theories about the nature of air. Okay, there’s one book I don’t need to pick up.
Archive | 2009
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Thumbs Down From the Führer
Turns out Hitler doesn’t like the new Watchmen movie. (WARNING: SPOILERS for anyone who’s been living under a rock for the past few months.)
Randians Will Be Randians
Steve Skeates once wrote a comic featuring The Question (a character created by Randian Steve Ditko), in which the hero, asked by the villain “Don’t you remember me?” replies “Now listen, my friend, you weren’t important enough for me to remember!” Ditko had no problem with the last part of the line (after all it sounds a bit like Roark’s one line to Toohey), but he sent Skeates a six-page rant – “a rather daunting and even rather scary letter,” as Skeates recalls – explaining why his hero would never call a criminal “friend” even in jest. Details here.
Auld Lang Syne
There’s a voice actor named Lex Lang who has played various supervillains in such animated shows as Justice League Unlimited, Legion of Superheroes, The Batman, and Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
No mention of whether he has a sister named Lana Luthor.
Here’s Mud In Your Eye
Pete Seeger wrote this song as an allegory for LBJ and the Vietnam War. But it applies just as well to Bush and Iraq – or to Obama and the Stimulus.