Apparently the movie’s better than the book. I tried reading the book over the winter and gave up a little after halfway though - and it’s a very small book.  Then a friend mentioned he’d re-watched the movie recently and it was a favored comedy.  I think I’ll watch it. 

After re-reading the blog, I realized that every thing person, and circumstance involved with this story are to some extent gross and bad.

That encounter kind of changed the direction of my life and those involved in a very necessary way that seems, a dozen years on, to have been very good for us. 

“Just because what you say is true and and funny doesn’t mean it can’t be hurtful to us.”  

The plot just seems to be improvised riffs to move characters around so they can have really excellent scenes together.  

It did.  I enjoyed it but a number of commenters were confused or angered. 

My impression is Jizyah Shorts always comes on strong at first but ultimately shoots their wad prematurely and won’t last. 

That’s good, but for me, it’s more like Bolt Thrower, but with popes.  

Very unhappy with some of the results in Dragonwagon region.  So long, Syndronica, Charleszetta.  Nice effort, Candy Button Disco (kinda like the Peyote/Duck match-up).  Better luck next time, Reymundo Mundo.  My Dragonwagon bracket is in tatters.  

Dr. Outhouse supporter here.  Sorry.  Had to go with my gut.  

Yeah, that one hurt.  

I kinda forsee a Storm Duck/Jizyah Shorts final.  Lotta great matchups this year!

Man U Macguyver is weak sauce. Storm Duck will blow him (?) away.

I love all these scenarios, but Sharky Laguana sounds so good when you say it out loud.  

Manchester United MacGyver and Apollokreed Gardener are comparatively weak and lame names and I can’t believe they beat Badboy and Snodgrass, but at least one of them will get wiped out of the two.

I’m still pissed that Truman Peyote - THE GUY’S REAL, GIVEN NAME, MEGAN! - had to be matched against Storm Duck.

And I…

I think a fundamental problem with the show is the sense that this secret war of the gods is going on, but it won’t affect the world everybody else lives in.

The writers need a coherent premise regarding the nature and function of gods in the world of the story, one that ties into how life is lived and experienced by…

Wikipedia on the Columbine shooting only mentions 2 suicides in the wake of it, but I’m not sure it’d track all of them, or more recent ones. I’m not sold on the veracity of the claim.

It’s a moot point in some ways.  The damange after a mass shooting is extensive and long-lasting, from crippling injuries with lifelong…

In episode 6 just out, they showed one of the Brain’s housing devices; I’m hoping hoping hoping for Brain/Mallah appearance, preferably running the story from the Grant Morrison era.  

It’s the only card in his hand, I guess.