30 June 2008

With an Uplifted Axe in His Hands

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On "Hey, Ocsar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!" (yes, that's the blog name), David Petersen shared his interpretation o...
29 June 2008

Before the Bat-Computer

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"Tremble, evildoers! For we have four-drawer file cabinets!" (Panel from the legendary Batman: From the '30s to the '70s ....
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28 June 2008

A Peek at Toys of the Mid-1800s

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The gentleman to the right is Gen. and Rep. Benjamin Butler , one of Massachusetts's Civil War heroes. But this is a miniature Butler, m...
27 June 2008

Poetry Friday: All Hail to the Rev. George Gilfillan

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My English teacher during junior year in high school, David Outerbridge, assigned everyone to memorize and recite a poem in class. Cheeky ba...
26 June 2008

Us Guys

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In May 2007 I wrote about the misuse of the perfectly useful Southern American coinage "you all" in Zizou Corder 's Lionboy ....
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Don’t Make Critics Angry

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I'm in Great Britain now, so it's an appropriate time to quote Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian on the new Incredible Hulk movie : ...
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25 June 2008

“Discretization in Successive Enunciations”

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Thierry Groensteen's The System of Comics is a literary critic's analysis of how comics work, originally published in French in 199...
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24 June 2008

Favorite Wikipedia Article of the Week

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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. Photo by Alex Rettelschneck from the EPA's Earth Day 2008 photo contest...
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23 June 2008

“Some People Are Better for Making It Up as It Goes Along”

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Last week Publishers Weekly ran an interview with Diana Wynne Jones on the occasion of the landing of House of Many Ways , the second seq...
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22 June 2008

They’re Not Dolls!

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They're action figures. And superhero statuary, whether articulated or still, turn out to be an important revenue stream for the big com...