Now the real thing that makes this one interesting to me isn’t the actual Superman arc This is the start of Hal Jordan’s descent into madness - it goes right into Emerald Twilight Which means it’s directly responsible for setting up Emerald Night and @jmdematteis.bsky.social’s Spectre run

And Dan Jurgens, whose big moment on #75 I don't much like but who is the presiding force of the event and the creator of its most enduring designs - big bony Doomsday, the Cyborg Superman and of course the Super-Mullet, whose sheer hair power propelled Clark to his highest post-60s sales

Shakhtar Donetsk in talks with Chelsea, Fulham, Brentford to play Champions League games in London

Given the fraught relationship between the HOTD staff and GRRM, master of coin torrhen manderly's bright and ignored "has anyone thought of a tax?" has to be a subtle dig at the ol' "what was Aragorn's tax policy?" chestnut. bsky.app/profile/mari...

collecting the tax is where a kingdom actually shows its shape though. who's exempt, who enforces it, what happens the year the harvest fails. dragons are easier to write than a working revenue office

My rogue take is the best Batman movie out of the Dark Knight trilogy is Batman Begins Not the best movie per say, but the best Batman movie

Sorry.

“identitarianism”

Encyclopedia Brown stories are like BUGS MEANY: I didn't do it and if you say that I did I will literally murder you EB, smirking: Ah but in your explanation, you said you saw it by looking from the west, which would have been impossible BUGS:

It reminds me of stuff like the Mongol obsession with the sanctity of emissaries, or Arab hospitality rituals; when raiding is the basis of so much of your economy/society, it's even *more* important that you have limitations on it, because any exceptions to that general rule are going to matter.

The dothraki dont use armor or bows yet dominate most of a continent. The only people who ever beat them are lightly armored hoplite eunuchs.

“Hellwell lies at the top of the world and it leads down to its roots. It is probably as old as the world itself; and if it is not, it should be, because it looks as if it were.”

Biff the Understudy

My issue with ASoIaF isn’t that it isn’t properly medieval It’s that it’s a Potemkin setting

I don't think it's an *American* thing but the gap between GRRM's understanding of a medieval world view and actual medieval world views* is very interesting and probably traceable to specific parts of his education as a boomer *which were very varied, I see you, medievalist nerds.

“Once in a hotel dining-room I said, rather too loudly, 'I loathe prunes: 'So do I,' came an unexpected six-year-old voice from another table. Sympathy was instantaneous. Neither of us thought it funny. We both knew that prunes are far too nasty to be funny.“

The full source essay if anyone is interested www.catholicculture.org/culture/libr...

Another good quote. "Well, it came about when my daughters were very young and Saturday was always daddy's day with the two daughters. So we'd start out and try to go someplace, you know, different things, and I'd take them to the merry-go-round and I took them different places"

I feel like some people have not properly internalized this “Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

I've long since retired, my son's moved away I called him up just the other day I said, I'd like to see you if you don't mind He said, I'd love to, dad, if I can find the time

A train runs along these tracks.

Wait wait wait they’re using survey data? Instead of something more comprehensive?

Homer when he hears the Winter Soldier is from Shelbyville

No, rereading this book every night is Right and Proper

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I remember ready the Odyssey in college with a professor (an Orthodox chanter, Heidegger scholar, and Greek native). She was a formidable teacher and reminded me of Athena/Penelope combo. You never wanted to cross her.

The open secret is that the 2023 Bud Light boycott was the only successful rightwing boycott in recent years out of the one bajillion attempted

When I based Orcs in a setting on Conquistadors and their exploits I was told by some players that the Orcs where too maniacally and cartoonishly sadistic and evil. I just took actual historical events and transposed them to a fantasy world.

This didn’t happen, unlike Charlie Brown who definitely did have hos

The second time I saw the first AVENGERS, there was a guy in front of us who continuously muttered “Oh shit” at every big moment

Sending Eminem back to the Danelaw

Hrothgar’s skald laying down sick rhymes about Heorot‘s golden roof and many spears and shields, unlike other kings whose rooves are thatch and have never attracted a single envious Cainson or murder mother.

“A young man boasting of his deeds in rhyme, accompanied by drums and what I assume is a strange flute?”

And this is when I once again pitch my Asian LotR concept where the Orcs are the British East India Company expies

An entire nation thrilled to make third place… tonight we are ALL Lib Dems

This is probably the highest scoring game of the tournament, no?

Cheering for a damaging primary

Ready the Brexit jokes

Ummm, I'm gonna need you to go ahead come in tomorrow. So if you could be here around 9 that would be great, mmmk... oh oh! and I almost forgot ahh, I'm also gonna need you to go ahead and come in on Sunday too, kay. For our collective freedom, Bill Lumbergh

Absolutely the fuck not.

The thing about the pre-Church Committee CIA to keep in mind is that the head of the anti-Soviet division shared all his secrets with his drinking buddy who was both an English aristocrat and also a Soviet double agent

Imagines Snoopy cum intelligentia artificiali delenda est

"Crying babies are similar to someone shooting up heroin in public" do you people listen to yourselves or talk to anyone not on the internet

Someone be blocking Puss In Boots

This is one poll, though. The averages have it closer to D+6 www.natesilver.net/p/generic-ba...

Didn’t Chambers brag about doing it?

Bro why you claiming lineage from historically famous losers? Don’t believe the Frank Miller press