The shower is pretty much where I get my ideas too- but now, instead of writing them in the steamy glass or trying to shove them into short-term memory, I hang an Aquanote Waterproof Notepad on my shower wall— they work flawlessly with a regular pencil and they stick on any wet surface.

Do we know for sure that this Mandarin's backstory hasn't been retconned? Maybe Sir K.'s version is some kind of Anglo dude who's taken on the identity of an Oriental Potentate.

The one that always gets me is "Every Day a Little Undeath."

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Maybe I'm missing something— but it sure seems to me like the creator of Larry Potter (& Lily) and the Muggles got mightily screwed by Rowling and Scholastic.

brings to mind the weirdly literal-minded approach of Robert Altman's Popeye.

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