otherwise all that fleeing is going nowhere
Today's poem:
Titian vs. Roadrunner
If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise all that fleeing is going nowhere.
This bull, he's got a bad intent, he wants
to hog the entire corner of the picture.
The girl is looking tasty to the espying putti.
This small bird crisscrossing my childhood
at enormous speed, outrunning everything,
running out of road to run down, running
out of canyon, running out of cartoon
runs out of the cartoon, never to return.
That's why this landscape looks forlorn.
The world turned upside down and shaken
like a piggybank, the one last coin
rattling around inside, just coughed it up.
~Dan Chiasson
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Last night, I watched Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and my advice to you is don't. Oh my god, who thought casting Billy Baldwin as Batman was a good idea? And why weren't they fired immediately? I don't think my brain will ever recover! I watched it mostly because of Gina Torres as Superwoman, and she and James Woods (as Owlman) are the best things in it, but other than that, it's pretty dire. You're better off watching the Justice Lords episode of Justice League, which is a fairly similar premise executed a million times better. (Though the movie also had some weird Batman/Flash subtext, like when Batman eats Flash's pretzel. That is not a euphemism. It was just weird, unless they wanted us to think they were dating.)
This post makes me think I should have a JL!Flash icon. Huh.
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Titian vs. Roadrunner
If you are made for flight, intended for it,
you had better find a pursuer, fast.
Otherwise all that fleeing is going nowhere.
This bull, he's got a bad intent, he wants
to hog the entire corner of the picture.
The girl is looking tasty to the espying putti.
This small bird crisscrossing my childhood
at enormous speed, outrunning everything,
running out of road to run down, running
out of canyon, running out of cartoon
runs out of the cartoon, never to return.
That's why this landscape looks forlorn.
The world turned upside down and shaken
like a piggybank, the one last coin
rattling around inside, just coughed it up.
~Dan Chiasson
***
Last night, I watched Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths and my advice to you is don't. Oh my god, who thought casting Billy Baldwin as Batman was a good idea? And why weren't they fired immediately? I don't think my brain will ever recover! I watched it mostly because of Gina Torres as Superwoman, and she and James Woods (as Owlman) are the best things in it, but other than that, it's pretty dire. You're better off watching the Justice Lords episode of Justice League, which is a fairly similar premise executed a million times better. (Though the movie also had some weird Batman/Flash subtext, like when Batman eats Flash's pretzel. That is not a euphemism. It was just weird, unless they wanted us to think they were dating.)
This post makes me think I should have a JL!Flash icon. Huh.
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/308238.html.
people have commented there.