Just a critter in the Gutter.
I once heard a reader dismiss a particular romance novel – and, in fact, the author’s entire writing career – because she felt the writer had no grasp of history. Her complaint? In the book, a character used a zipper several weeks before it was invented in real […]
The first paragraph alone does it for me in Heather Havrilevsky’s reviews of Friday Night Lights and the new reality-dance show, Step It Up and Dance: “When my sister and I were kids, we made our Star Wars action figures go on dates with each other. First we’d […]
Stalags are SS She-Wolf pulp fiction. From Israel. Think I’m gonna lie down for a while.
So. Tony Stark is anti-Linux. Does Marvel like breaking the hearts of Iron Man fans? (Thanks, Chuck!)
Curious what the cover of Doom Patrol #89 (August, 1964, first appearance of The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man) looks like? Or any other comic, for that matter? Check out the bottomless treasure trove that is the Grand Comic Book Database, home to over 150,000 scanned comic book covers and counting.
Ah, the internet, what we would do without distractions like Analytics According to Captain Kirk: “When Captain Kirk meets an alien woman and “makes contact” the survival rate of the red-shirted crewmen increases by 84%.”
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