Bear with me. I know this seems like another one about Batman but it’s deeper. I’m trying to say something important. A carpenter views everything in terms of nails, so… Batman.
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I Don’t Belong Here: Causality,...
Bear with me. I know this seems like another one about Batman but it’s deeper. I’m trying to say something important. A carpenter views everything in terms of nails, so… Batman.
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I Don’t Belong Here: More Batma...
So a while back I wrote about Batman villains I’d like to see more of. And while that list was pretty definitive and special — I’m especially proud of my discovery of Adam Lamb AKA Wolf The Crime Master, who is easily the most obscure Batman villain deserving of another appearance — but the thing about that path is onc [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: The Batman...
If you’re the kind of person that likes to pore over tons of minutiae looking for patterns (and I am) and also the kind of person that likes to apply that analytical mind to social trends (that too) and especially to Batman in particular (of course) then you might have come to the same conclusion that I have: that Batman’s popular [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Things I W...
So, next week, with the release of The Dark Knight Rises, the Christopher Nolan-helmed Batman film series comes to a close. I obviously haven’t seen the new movie yet, but I am hoping that if it doesn’t meet the same level of excellence as the previous two in the series, it at least doesn’t suck so bad it ruins the whole ser [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Things The...
I recently re-watched the 1989 Tim Burton Batman movie, or “THE MOVIE OF THE DECADE” as the ubiquitous hype at the time dubbed it. And I was struck by a few things. One, what an awful trainwreck of a movie it was. And two, what an unmitigated disaster it was. Here’s a quick list of nine things they really made a dog’s [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Things I L...
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I love Batman. In my personal pantheon he ranks somewhere on the level of Jesus Christ and Bugs Bunny. And there’s a lot of reasons for that. Mostly because Batman is awesome. Obviously. But the reason I am going to explore today is because of all the things I learned from Batman. Or at [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Building A...
Part two of my loosely organized and ongoing look at Batman’s villains:
Without a doubt Batman has the best villains of any superhero. Who else even comes close? Spider-Man might come second but it’s still not close. And everyone else is a bunch of scrubs. It’s Batman, hands down. In the course of this research, I started t [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Batman Vil...
I don’t think it’s a big secret that I love Batman. True story: between the ages of say 15 and say 25, Batman was a recurring character in my dreams. To say I have something of an obsession with Batman is an understatement. And yet, almost fantastically, I have never really written about Batman. Ever. And I think that I would lik [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: I Don̵...
I get so mad when I see people say ignorant things like “If you don’t vote, you can’t complain” and other similar bumper-sticker slogans. By my thinking, it is exactly the other way around. If you DO vote, if you pull the lever that signifies your tacit endorsement of a corrupt and rigged system– (more…)
I Don’t Belong Here: My Persona...
This week I would like to share with you some of the most important gods I believe in. (more…)
I Don’t Belong Here: I Don̵...
I don’t give a shit about 9-11. I don’t. Sorry. Or let me take that back and rephrase it, because I don’t want to seem callous or lacking empathy towards terrible human tragedy. It’s just, on a scale of 1 to 10 of human tragedies, with 1 being the tragedy that we still haven’t eliminated bad traffic and 10 being [...]
I Don’t Belong Here: Hip-Hip-Hy...
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
(Matthew 23:27)
In the beginning, there was no dissembling. There was no separation between word and deed. How could there be? In the BEGINNING beginning, there was no word at all! Sorry, John of Patmos. And coming from a pre-verbal animal background, in the beginning we hadn’t yet le [...]