On HU
Featured Archive Post: Sharon Marcus on liking Wonder Woman the comic but not Wonder Woman the character.
Fleetwood Mac for the old and boring.
A short story about a kangaroo who changed the world, with illustrations by my son.
Chris Gavaler provides free script advice to DC on a Wonder Woman movie.
Osvaldo Oyola on double-consciousness and what Black Lightning could have been.
Me on Black Lightning in Chains in the not very good Batman and the Outsiders run in the 1980s.
Qiana Whitted with a PPP post on the connection between anthropomorphism and race in Krazy Kat.
Michael Arthur on the good, the sweaty,and the cute at Midwest Furfest.
Utilitarians Everywhere
At Salon I have a list of metal tracks for non-metal heads. I think I’m going to be doing music lists over there weekly for a while, so check in every Saturday, as they say.
At Wired I talk about the Tripods series, and YA hero as failure.
At the Dissolve I review Nuclear Nation, a film about nuclear refugees in Japan.
At Splice Today I write about:
— how superhero narratives are about fascism, which doesn’t necessarily mean that superheroes are fascist.
—how America’s incarceration boom is over, and no one will be punished for it.
Other Links
James Romberger interviews Paul Kirchner.
Noah Gittell on that crappy Walt Disney movie.
Why it’s worth caring about women on a bank note.
Kevin Drum on our educational apartheid.
Bodycount are an excellant metal band. I was a hip hop kid and hated rock and metal. Ice T and the rest of Bodycount converted me. Them being black may have had something to do with it. The music was also rightous.
Black Label Society are pretty effin awesome too.
Thanks for the list. I’ll be picking up some stuff by the Melvins. Good pick.