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The 10 Mental Illnessess Batman Clearly Has. Fear of clowns is number one.

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Happy birthday Brian Hines! Both Kevin and Brian are Pisces. Make what assumptions you will, astrologists.

Things that exist in the mind of all Hines brothers and likely few other sets of three people: the image of Zot!, Booyar, the landscape of Clapboard Ridge, They Might Be Giants as seen through a net at Toad’s Place in New Haven, The movie Batman as seen at the Palace Theater on Main Street Danbury, Outer Limits Comics, The Pembroke Panthers and Spite Magazine.

Canada + Cleveland + Connecticut = wryness off the muthaeffin charts!

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Catching up. Might expand on some topics later.

• Eliza and I spent last weekend in the Catskills. That makes us sound like Henny Youngman. Or 80. Even moreso if you count Eliza’s time knitting in a for-real rocking chair, and my desire to hide inside and read. It’s off-season, which meant cheaper room rates for us and a hilariously high percentage of businesses closed. Our cabin was great: I cringe at the thought B&B’s — but Eliza found one that was low on fluffiness and high on spaciousness and having-its-own-kitchen. Very nice. And wi-fi!
• Top 50 Comics Publications of 2005, according to Tom Spurgeon:
  http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/briefings/commentary/4505/

  Seeing the entries on Batman: Year One and Watchmen warmed my increasingly robotic heart.

• I made this [...]

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