Neil Gaiman co-writes an essay for Wired on the myth of Superman. I disagree with Gaiman on several of his thoughts, the biggest one being about Clark Kent being the “disguise” for Superman. To my thinking, it’s the other way around — it’s because Superman is Clark Kent, and has the classic American upbringing and mores, that makes him a hero and not a tyrant internally to the storylines, and externally a part of the American mythology. It wasn’t his powers that made him part of our culture — those keep changing. It was his Kansas.

Still on the topic of superheroes, check out this gallery of Photoshopped art from which I’ve illustrated this post. You want proof that modern standards of female beauty are very different than they used to be? Ask yourself if you can imagine seeing any of the women dressed up as Wonder Woman in a modern comic.

Some people have far too much free time in both the real world and a virtual one. (I wasn’t aware that watermelon was a popular fruit during the Middle Ages.)

I am officially too old to have any idea what this sounds like.

Speaking of too old, I thank God Almighty I can’t remember what I was eating in 1971.

I think this is the best $200 you can possibly spend. Bloodsucking bastards.

Don’t even think about going to this mindbending Flash site while drunk or stoned. It’s hard enough to deal with sober. I’m now wondering if I’m living in an atom in my own eyelash.