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Born To Be Vlad
As 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
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.
Watching the Watchmen More Closely
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.)
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 2
[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!
With Such A Lustre He That Runs May Read
SPOILER ALERT FOR SECRET WARRIORS #1:
Spider-man may be gushing over Obama, but Nick Fury sure isn’t. In last week’s Secret Warriors #1, Fury finds out that S.H.I.E.L.D., the anti-terrorist organisation he’s worked for since Strange Tales #135 in 1965, has all along been a front for the terrorist group HYDRA. So he breaks into the White House to confront Obama; and although he decides the President’s not a HYDRA agent, the meeting is not exactly a warm one:
Obama: You know, most people have the humility to respect the office – if not the man – when they enter this room … Have you forgotten that, Colonel Fury?
Fury: I’ve been in this room with Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Johnson … Nixon … you know the list. That shit’s lost its luster.