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Okay; this one has been causing me a nagging itch in the brain. I recall having seen-probably on some incarnation of Scans Daily on another platform-a U.S. romance comic from the 1940’s or 1950’s that had an anthology host-something more characteristic of horror comics. He was a Zorroesque Masked Lover who narrated love stories throughout history ( ( Read more... ) -
Until further notice...
...I can't quite bring myself to jettison my LJ entirely, having accumulated a body of reference and correspondence that I want to retain; that said, my present and future online homebase is:
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Quote of the Day.
From Froborr on My Little Po-MO:
The other night, I was rereading Terry Pratchett's Night Watch, and I wondered: would Ferguson be as bad as it is if all cops were required to read the Watch books ( Read more... ) -
Dear kosaginolegion...
...Thank you for (among a thousand-and-three other things) being exactly the person I want at my side during Pulpfest; it's curiously validating to know I'm not the only one snickering at a New Pulp author's cameos by old Shaw Brothers characters or speculating about Kato's nationality ( Read more... ) -
Accidental haiku: on human fallibility.
The following passage comes from page 138 of Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers by Charles Seife. The source is an anonymous statistician, the context is a discussion of disputed elections, and the formatting is my own.
Humans counting things:
I don't care what the things are--
They're going to be off.
