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Today, the Greatest Generation is all but gone. The fingerprints it left on superhero comic books still linger, but we’re always interrogating what its legacy means today. But one thing was clear enough as Germany reunified: the “unreconstructed German Nazi” trope, common in comics of the 1960s, was aging out of relevance. Giffen and DeMatteis (and Medley) wanted to be the ones to lay it to rest. It would be defeated by…age itself.

( If only being a Nazi today MADE you old, like M. Night Shyamalan’s beach. )

conuly

I'm worried I lost my kindle when I misplaced my red bag in which everything is. Well, not everything, but perhaps my kindle. Or maybe not. My kindle might be under my bed. If it's not under my bed, I'll have to replace it sooner or later. I'm a bit wary of looking and finding out one way or another.

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sennashi_dorei

Hanging out at the clubhouse 2day! ワイワイ楽しいです！

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https://xkcd.com/3216/

In contrast to the deep booming sound associated with the cannon in pop culture depictions, recent studies show it actually made more of a 'toot toot!' noise.

https://xkcd.com/3216/

james_davis_nicoll

A friendly session of D&D for a worthy cause reminds former friends why they parted.

Rerolled (The Last Session, volume 2) by Jasmine Walls & Dozerdraws

ride_4ever

I just learned that

spikedluv's mother died three weeks after

spikedluv died. Gawd, this fucking era.

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Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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Dear Care and Feeding,

Two weeks ago my wife and I received a call from the school our 10-year-old son, “Josh” attends. Apparently, Josh was angry with his teacher, “Mrs. Smith,” after he was kept in from recess for playing with his phone during class. So he drew a picture.

The drawing was of his teacher in a compromising position with a dog. It circulated among the students, one of whom ultimately ratted him out. We had to attend a conference with Mrs. Smith and the principal, and Josh ended up with a week’s suspension. He’s been grounded for the next month, but his best friend’s birthday falls during that time period. My wife thinks he should be made to skip the party. I think that’s excessive and punishes not only Josh, but his friend as well and we’ve been at odds over it since. I don’t think making an exception will diminish the lesson we are trying to teach Josh about his behavior. Thoughts?

—Doodle Debacle
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sennashi_dorei

19k steps in today and still have energy!! Well, it is a little awkward. 15k I was uncomfortable and felt like I needed more exercise, so I went out again. Now I feel like I can rest comfortably, but I also feel like I could do more. Opting to save energy for the weekend.

sennashi_dorei

15k steps today. I feel like I can keep going. I get scared that it will be too much, so I tell myself to moderate. I think I could do 20k today and feel proud of myself: but tomorrow is Friday: why not save some energy for tomorrow? Everything feels life or death, that is the heart disease. I want to ask people for advice, but I bet many folks might feel scared to step in because I had the heart surgery? Urgh.

james_davis_nicoll

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Is human redemption beyond even a nigh-godlike superhuman?

The Paradox Men by Charles L. Harness

vivdunstan

Delighted to manage accordion practice despite neuro disease relapsing majorly. At a similar relapse in 2004 I lost strength on my right side, arms, legs and falling to the right. Essentially a stroke. And 22 years on I'm still often weaker down that side when more tired or during flares. So today it was really nice to see my right hand play accordion well even if I was very light headed!

This was also a really good test of how I'm doing before I speak to my GP soon and we decide what to do extra treatment wise, given how extremely high the inflammation in my brain blood vessels currently is. Meanwhile I enjoy playing French accordion music, including here the polka Martelette.

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Warning for lots of Nazi and Hitler imagery.

In a meta sense, the real threat to a figure like General Glory isn’t Nazis; it’s disillusionment, the vision of America with bloodied hands that can never be made clean. The General will face both threats in these pages, and he’s much more able to address one than the other. And this was produced during the early Nineties, with reference to the early Forties, which were both relatively good times for American patriotism. [Glances at headlines, shakes head, sighs]

( The Vietnam and Trump eras have been hard enough on Captain America; I’d rather not imagine the General trying to cope with them. )

rmc28

The university hockey season is nearly over. Huskies have played our last league game (I say 'our' but I was actually playing with Warbirds in a different city at the time), Varsity is coming up Saturday week, and then there's Nationals in April before we move into summer ice training. We had our Varsity dinner on Tuesday in Clare College and I became sharply aware during that evening that all things come to an end and some people will graduate this summer and leave. This is a university, people are always arriving and leaving, but it's nearly thirty years since I first arrived in Cambridge and I'm still not used to friends leaving.

I love everyone in this photograph (and a couple more teammates who didn't make it to the dinner).

Varsity: Saturday 14 March, tickets go on general sale at noon today, I didn't make the Huskies ("mixed 2nds") Varsity squad but I'm playing in the alumni game and helping out with (at least) Huskies and Women's Blues.

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marchmetamatterschallenge is running this month. :D Here is my introductory post. So what is meta? Well, it can be a lot of things ...

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Current Mood: busy

ride_4ever

Most of you -- or perhaps all of you -- will understand why I am currently fixated on the last three lines of the Sonya Taaffe poem "The House Snakes: For Nyani Martin":

...our earth will always shake,

our restless scales unfurling to enfold

your arms of wine-dark honey as you come home.

The full poem appears in issue 44 of "Uncanny: A Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy".

Current Mood: I Can't Even
Current Location: near the lake they call Michigan

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