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- The Onion’s AV club lists the 10 most wonderfully weird moments in Fantastic Four comics. A great list — and I’m pleased to see that all but one are from either the original Jack Kirby run or the 1980s John Byrne run. Kevin and I think they missed one, though: the issue where the Sub-Mariner traps the FF by disguising himself as a movie producer and luring them to a trap-filled Hollywood set!
- Fantastic quote from the Justice League Unlimited cartoon: The Question tells Lex Luthor “Although my distaste for you as a human being is Brobdingnagian, what I’m about to do isn’t personal.” That is bad-ass that they said Brobdingnagian. Even better than when Batman [...]
Kurt Vonnegut died today. Everyone is sad, which is nice. I’m amazed at his ability to connect with so many people. I feel like when I was in high school, everyone — EVERYONE — loved Catcher in the Rye, 1984 and a Vonnegut book of his/her choice. Is that right? I loved when that “sunscreen” graduation speech got passed around a few years ago, everyone just ASSUMED it was Vonnegut — the Internet collectively decided that it sounded like him and so therefore it was. We liked him.
My favorite book of his was Slapstick, which apparently was a terrible one. It featured twins who were mentally retarded when separate, but brilliant when together. They become president on the platform [...]
I’m really digging the 33 1/3 series of what essentially are super-extended liner notes from Continuum Books. I bought a bunch at Virgin Megastore some months ago as gifts, but couldn’t help but read them before passing them on. They focus on classic or noteworthy albums — some very much in the standard rock canon, like ‘Born in the U.S.A.’ but also some that are easily overlooked like ‘Forever Changes’ by Love.
Each book has its own sole author, and the editors seem to give that author free reign to analyze the album in whatever manner he/she sees fit. “In The [...]
The number one recommended product for me to buy at amazon.com right now is Ordinary People.
On my iTunes now:
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is out to Get Us! by Sufjan Stevens from "Illinois"
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