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| A miasma of silky warm-up. |
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| We were aiming for right-angled awkward, but this just looks flat-out weird. |
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| Just don't ask about the fabric burns. For, like, at least another week more. |
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| Don't worry - there's actually at least three layers of undies there. |
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| This is all Jeanne. |
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| This, less so. |
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| I wasn't eating chocolate. That was a jellied smear of stage blood, until my sweat took over. |
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| Our silks were not rigged that close, hence our bulging guns (OK: Jeanne's bulging guns). |
"...[I]t should come as small surprise that so many of us define ourselves by distinction and exclusion. It’s almost a self-explanatory notion – one reads the word 'distinction,' and the definition begs a synonym of identification. Yet they aren’t the same thing. My favorite color is blue, because my favorite color is not yellow. Even logically, that sentence doesn’t compute. The distinction is not the reason, nor the causation.
"Yet we hasten to describe and define our religion by what we don’t believe."
What advice would you give Warner Brothers on getting their Justice League movie going?
"Call me. No, seriously, it's enormously difficult to take very disparate characters and make them work. And DC has a harder time of it than Marvel because their characters are from a bygone era where characters were bigger than we were. Marvel really cracked the code in terms of them being just like us. I think you need to use that as your base."
-Joss Whedon, director of The Avengers, speaking with Dark Horizons
A village in Nottinghamshire, a county in central England, 'Gotham' has been settled for millennia. In the medieval era, it became famed as a place settled by madmen, for, at least according to legend, the villagers feigned insanity in order to avoid being put to work building a royal road, which was then rerouted away from Gotham. Washington Irving borrowed this legend in a short story of 1807, calling New York 'Gotham'...
