I first saw the story of August Ames last week and figured I’d like to write about it. But I was busy doing dissertation stuff and didn’t get around to it at first. Plus I wasn’t sure exactly what I wanted to say. And then after a couple days I decided, “eh, she isn’t famous…
A lot of times when I write these little political blogs I’m very confrontational and frankly downright mean to the other side. I do this on purpose. I like making fun of people because I’m a horrible and spiteful little man. But this isn’t one of those times. Every once in a while I realize…
Now that my class on comics is over, I can get back to focusing on some of my own work. It’s another one of those times where I am doing some research for a comics paper and so it’s totally useful for me to just outsource some of my research to the internet. In this…
(This is a review of the Batman: The Killing Joke animated movie adaptation that was just released. I’m going to mostly avoid spoilers if I can, but they will be there. But the book is from 1988. Honestly, there isn’t much to spoil… but if you’re worried about that… well, i guess that’s your damn fault for waiting…
Oh for fuck’s sake… I know I don’t really do daily wistful career change decisions anymore, but I have one anyway. I’ve decided that I want to be a Washington Post Opinion column editor, because really it appears to be a job that requires doing nothing whatsoever but just printing anything handed to you by…