31 July 2012

The Legacy of Oz in Culver City

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Yesterday I went on the Sony Pictures Studios tour, which shows people working sets and backstage departments instead of giving them a the...
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30 July 2012

Robin Controversies, part 2

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This extended version of the weekly Robin is brought to us by the letters B, I, and N. Best Robin. GrayHaven Comics asked fans to vote...
29 July 2012

Robin Categories and Controversies, part 1

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This page from Detective Comics , #208 (June 1954), comes courtesy of little Bully’s Tumblr stream “What the ’Tec?” To play along with it...
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28 July 2012

“Online Oz” Panel Tomorrow

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Tomorrow morning I’ll moderate a panel at this year’s Winkie Convention titled “Online Oz.” More specifically, we’ll talk about blogging. ...
27 July 2012

OIP Derangement Syndrome and Conspiracy Theories

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On Sunday the Boston Globe plumbed the depths of OIP Derangement Syndrome in Leon Neyfakh’s article headlined “Revealed! Obama’s Secret Ag...
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26 July 2012

“An impressive job of publicising his work”

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Yesterday I quoted from a recent BBC conversation with British fabulist G. P. Taylor . Back in September 2008 Taylor complained to the Teleg...
25 July 2012

G. P. Taylor, Vampire Hunter

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A posting at Bookshelves of Doom made me look again at the intellectual peregrinations of G. P. Taylor . In 2005 he told the BBC  about how...
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24 July 2012

“I’ve the right to make new laws, haven’t I?”

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For the last two Tuesdays I’ve been following L. Frank Baum ’s discussion of governance in the Pink Country in Sky Island . What Polychrome ...
23 July 2012

Gatsby as “a magical magic guy”

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Sunny Chanel at Babble bribed her six-year-old daughter with toys to look at the covers of various famous adult novels and guess what they...
22 July 2012

Dick Grayson’s First Kiss

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Batman , #107 (Apr 1957) contained a story from Bill Finger and Sheldon Moldoff titled “Robin Falls in Love.” According to the Batman volu...
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