Man, if you're someone who gets bullied a lot and all you see is the bullies doing better* than you? Basis human sense is gonna get thrown way out whack.

Maybe there are some libraries in the state with great graphic novel collections, though my local ones - despite being excellent in most other regards - are abysmal.

Ok, here's the thing. Homonym is an exercise in cruelty, celebrity Homonym? That right there is can't fucking miss TV.

I don't know. Someone says 'Prophet,' Bam! There's William Blake right in my head, owning, maybe a little MLK or Sojourner Truth thrown in. Give me a little bit and Borges and the Boom authors start showing up.

I really can't like this comment enough.

I'm having trouble seeing how public intellectual is less vague than prophet.

Which Aristophanes did you read in sixth grade? That strikes me as a very unusual choice for that grade level.

God, that would be perfection.

I'm very sad there's been no official translation of the books into English, from all I hear they are incredibly awesome (A) and (B) make Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon into a much less opaque film.

It's not really the foundation of the US-Israel relationship, but it doesn't hurt.

In some traditions he is, sort of.

I don't know enough about Gaiman to say, Scrawler, it's possible that Gaiman thought that boys and girls are generally attracted to different stories and I suppose that that might even be true, I don't believe it's true given how basic and maleable most story types are, but it's certainly statistically possible and…

I've actually had trouble finding it within my price range. My next attempt is going to be to see if I can ILL it through the University Library without anyone asking any questions about how, exactly, this is relevant to any research I am definitively not being paid to do.

I've always thought it seemed like an interesting way to go, but I like visiting the dead so there's have to be some sort of memorial left afterwards for me to really feel it was right for me.

Ah, I do that when I'm describing myself at work all the time!

I don't know that this is a simple question of stereotype. Stories can have gender in much the same way that bridges, people, or words can. Stereotypes going to work into it because stereotype is always going to work into it, but I think a large part of the point is that these sorts of inevitabilities fade away and…

I don't know that Warren Ellis's version of the idea really had this level of depth, though, fun as it was there was little in the way of integration.

There's little I'm so regretful I haven't read as Astro City. It would be an interesting subject for this feature.

Where I live Whole Foods is popular with sassy Moms, people on their AA fueled second act, rabid libertarians, and dudes in turtlenecks.

Bung is not the archaic past tense of bang. It's archaic all right, but it means something completely different.