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Every now and again, I am forced to concede a fight. And in the wake of all those articles, the one against the word 'polyamory' has just joined the list of surrenders. Fvck it, as these words go it's no more unwieldy than 'bisexual', and slightly more mellifluous.
(The subsidiary terminology can still take a running jump, mind. And that goes double for The Bad Word)
I've finally read (though not bought) 'Countdown to Infinite Crisis'*. It pains me to say this, but I actually rather enjoyed it. There was enough metatextual stuff to suggest that they're attemping an equivalent to Alan Moore's 'Pictopia', a comic about what has happened to comics. And the mention of Infinite Crisis suggests that all the continuity glitches, all the little stupidities, will be revealed as some sort of reality-warping cosmic strangeness rather than simply daft. This isn't the League we knew, the Maxwell Lord we knew...but they're definitely possible. Blue and Booster are definitely themselves - and they get wasted.
Or maybe I'm just taking DC for smarter people than they are. Wouldn't be the first time. And after all, we are talking about a company that wouldn't let Alan Moore ruin Beetle in Watchmen - but is now prepared to let workmanlike second stringers like Johns and Rucka kill him.
I think I'd like to read the spin-off miniseries. But again, I don't want to buy them.
I'd never heard of The Mountain Goats before their CD was left on my desk; I still only know what the press release tells me, but apparently their leader, John Darnielle, has been knocking around for over a decade. The CD was on 4AD, and in my book that means it's worth a try. I'm now very glad that my book's written that way. The Sunset Tree is an album about Darnielle's recently deceased abusive stepfather; with a topic like that you'd expect misery p0rn, music to read Dave Pelzer books by. It's nothing of the sort; only a couple of songs are even angry. Instead it's a love song to the things that got him through - music, a girl called Cathy, and hope.
Plus, it has a song called 'Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod'.
The American pollster on Newsnight, whose name always escapes me but it rhymes with Muntz, reckons that while the British electorate generally loathe Blair, they'd definitely pick him over Howard or WCK as the man capable of handling a terrorist attack. May 4th would probably be a bit obvious, but I'm planning wherever possible to avoid monuments and crowded areas on May 3rd.
(Yes, I have been reading Transmetropolitan again recently. Why do you ask?)
Who's for B Movie tonight, then? I would put the link there but the site still has March's details...
*I was tempted to refer to it as Cvntdown to something similarly witty, but then I remembered the words of a wise man - it's already "the sort of title so gloriously ridiculous that if you can't see why it's funny, there's something slightly suspect about your frame of reference".
(The subsidiary terminology can still take a running jump, mind. And that goes double for The Bad Word)
I've finally read (though not bought) 'Countdown to Infinite Crisis'*. It pains me to say this, but I actually rather enjoyed it. There was enough metatextual stuff to suggest that they're attemping an equivalent to Alan Moore's 'Pictopia', a comic about what has happened to comics. And the mention of Infinite Crisis suggests that all the continuity glitches, all the little stupidities, will be revealed as some sort of reality-warping cosmic strangeness rather than simply daft. This isn't the League we knew, the Maxwell Lord we knew...but they're definitely possible. Blue and Booster are definitely themselves - and they get wasted.
Or maybe I'm just taking DC for smarter people than they are. Wouldn't be the first time. And after all, we are talking about a company that wouldn't let Alan Moore ruin Beetle in Watchmen - but is now prepared to let workmanlike second stringers like Johns and Rucka kill him.
I think I'd like to read the spin-off miniseries. But again, I don't want to buy them.
I'd never heard of The Mountain Goats before their CD was left on my desk; I still only know what the press release tells me, but apparently their leader, John Darnielle, has been knocking around for over a decade. The CD was on 4AD, and in my book that means it's worth a try. I'm now very glad that my book's written that way. The Sunset Tree is an album about Darnielle's recently deceased abusive stepfather; with a topic like that you'd expect misery p0rn, music to read Dave Pelzer books by. It's nothing of the sort; only a couple of songs are even angry. Instead it's a love song to the things that got him through - music, a girl called Cathy, and hope.
Plus, it has a song called 'Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod'.
The American pollster on Newsnight, whose name always escapes me but it rhymes with Muntz, reckons that while the British electorate generally loathe Blair, they'd definitely pick him over Howard or WCK as the man capable of handling a terrorist attack. May 4th would probably be a bit obvious, but I'm planning wherever possible to avoid monuments and crowded areas on May 3rd.
(Yes, I have been reading Transmetropolitan again recently. Why do you ask?)
Who's for B Movie tonight, then? I would put the link there but the site still has March's details...
*I was tempted to refer to it as Cvntdown to something similarly witty, but then I remembered the words of a wise man - it's already "the sort of title so gloriously ridiculous that if you can't see why it's funny, there's something slightly suspect about your frame of reference".
