I AM IRON MAN!

Nifty article on the origins of the Black Sabbath song and its connection to the comics.

So Crazy It Might Be True!

A couple of interesting stories I saw on Boing Boing today:


The more believable one first: this dude is preggers. Is this a first? It seems like it would have happened before, since I assume it has been technologically possible for some time. And, no, you can't count Arnold Schwarzennegger.

I find this story about a dude who regrew his severed fingertip a bit hard to believe, though it is from a reputable news source. If this one's true, then, wowee zowee! People will be like Swamp Thing in the future! Just chop off an arm, sprinkle on some piggy dust, and it sproings right back. Awesome!

Old-timey Slang of the Day

Today's word:

darb: an excellent person or thing. As in, "Ain't that a darb?!" or "She's a darb, Sully, a darb!" or "My new jalopy is a real darb, I tells ya."

This comes up a lot in movies from the 1920s and 1930s. I've also seen it in an old Krazy Kat cartoon from the 1910s. Most recently, I heard it in Sons of the Desert, a great Laurel & Hardy comedy I saw on TCM the other day. I think I heard three different permutations of it in that one.

Cape and Tights

While we're reading, this New Yorker essay by Michael Chabon is quite good, too. It's about superhero costumes. Y'know, capes and like that.

Squiddy Squiddy Squiddy, Rock and Roll

A friend of mine sent this to me; it's amusing.

Another friend sent me this only an hour later.

Cephalopod synchronicity?

Comics, Stripped

Comic strips are sometimes funny. Comic strips that people mess with on the internet are a lot funnier. For example, see Garfield minus Garfield.

There's also Garfield without speech balloons. (What is it about Garfield?)

Or perhaps you'd prefer to have Marmaduke explained to you.

Everybody Knows The Phantom is the Coolest

See?

Angry and Old

The Outbursts of Everett True