I think Annette Funicello turned out okay. And Cubby O’Brien has had a pretty good showbiz career as a drummer. But if you mean kids eho’ve been stars after, oh, 1960 ... Seems unlikely.

Tycho Brahe, the pioneering Danish astronomer. Nobleman by birth. Kidnapped by an uncle so that he could be raised as a scholar. Lost his nose in a duel over a mathematical formula. Later given a private island to use as his observatory, which he ran like a king. Palled around with a dwarf he believed was psychic, and…

Not even remotely. I mean, technically, under the pre-1987 law, that may be true. But not under current law, and most certainly not if she is guilty of anything like what she is suspected of.

Any attraction to pregnant women I may have comes from a straightforward source: experience. My wife was one those mothers-to-be who get friskier as their term goes on. Her pregnancy was the only time in 20 years that her sex drive surpassed mine. By the end, she simply couldn't get enough. It was ... Awesome.

Well, considering how much I hated the original Independence Day, I can safely say that Will Smith’s absence won’t be what keeps me away from the sequel.

Whereas I am also a U-2, despite being very short and having a center of gravity so low I can't be knocked over by most trucks. But I do wear ugly sunglasses and hang out with religious and charitable types.

Oh, man, I remember when they tolled out the number 6. My cranky old grandpa swore it would never catch on, but who’s laughing now, Gramps?

Varanasi AKA Benares AKA Kashi. The [most] sacred city of Hinduism, as crowded with historic temples as Rome (or more so), and big chunks of it still more unreconstructedly medieval. An exciting pilgrimage site for Indians, and for a Westerner an assault on the senses.

If I were making a small-town time capsule, I'd slip in a notebook of all the juiciest local gossip. Who's sleeping with whom, where to score the best weed, all the unconfirmed rumors about people who, when the thing is opened, will have bridges and parks named after them.

A mixture. We haven’t had much say since the 50s - remember Eisenhower’s famous warning. But now as then there are a lot of people (let’s call it a vocal minority) who actually belive that a vast military industrial complex is all that keeps us safe. Needless to say, their ideas are warmly encouraged by the…

Wait, really? Because that's something I've always wanted to see. Creepy but true.

The Time Traveller and Weena — or Mara, in one of the movie versions. They aren’t always turned into a couple, but when they are it’s creepy. She’s described, over and over, as “childlike” and “helpless,” which makes their romance … well, you do the math. Ick.

Yeah, I agree, except …

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Also: talking about women done right, and making it sound like Arrow had nothing but Laurel and Thea to work with.

Fountain pens. Specifically, my Parker 51. (The picture is not mine).

Multiple thumbs up for Angela Carter. Both a a writer and a scholar, she got the spirit of fairy tales.

I could not possibly agree more. And the comic you choose to illustrate your point is perfect: it not only includes reprints from the 40s and 50s, which taught us kids how the continuity developed, but also one of the (two or three?) Batman-Shadow teamups of the era, which shows how DC retconned another publisher’s…

All this times 100. Add to that the fact that comics Supergirl has often come across as a superheroic parody of Silver Age romance comics, and you've got all my reasons for thinking this show could be fun.

Although, in fairness, Static Shock boosted that from Mister Miracle.