DISQUS

Where's "Single Ladies"? "Freeway" by Aimee Mann? "Sweet Jane" by Ryan Adams on the Cowboy Junkies Trinity Session anniversary release? Akon's "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"? "DJ at the End of the World" by REM? I guess this year was retro for me.

My computer hasn't yet recovered from the WMF contest earlier this year:

1. When Your Mind's Made Up by the Swell Season
2. Rehab by Amy Winehouse
3. Keep the Car Running by Arcade Fire
4 Fiery Crash by Andrew Bird
5 Power to the People by John Lennon
6 Ain't Nothing Wrong with That by Robert Randolph & the Family Band
7 Wah Wah by George Harrison

and Number 8: God Must Be a Boogie Man by Joni Mitchell

Hey--Dan voted twice! That can't count. I'm going to go with (c) depends on the context of what you're writing. "Holy Bible" is very sacramental but not in a way I associate with you. I worry that "Holy Bible" might sound sarcastic in some contexts. "The Bible" is more pragmatic but tilts evangelical over more liturgical traditions, and I suspect there are contexts in which you'd like to press against that culture. On balance, I'd go with "the Bible" as more fitting to your overall tone.

While we're on the subject, I'm proud to announce the "Don't Forget Your Change" tour featuring cultural icon and pope of The Church of Global Commerce Ronald McDonald. Join Ronald as he laments the woefully inadequate number of cupholders and change drawers in the most popular hybrid vehicles currently on the market, and points the way forward to a world blessed by more salt (though less light). His list of venues is far too lengthy to mention, I'm afraid, since literally billions are clamoring to cram their fat butts into a bolted down unpadded bench-table and take in all he has to offer. This culture leader's footprint is, frankly, huge.

While we're on the subject, I'm proud to announce the "Don't Forget Your Change" tour featuring cultural icon and pope of The Church of Global Commerce Ronald McDonald. Join Ronald as he laments the woefully inadequate number of cupholders and change drawers in the most popular hybrid vehicles currently on the market, and points the way forward to a world blessed by more salt (though less light). His list of venues is far too lengthy to mention, I'm afraid, since literally billions are clamoring to cram their fat butts into a bolted down unpadded bench-table and take in all he has to offer. This culture leader's footprint is, frankly, huge.

Suddenly I envision a new must-see TV show on the Family Channel: "The Papal Office." We'll watch the slowly percolating romance of the Episcopalians and the Lutherans, the cocksure camera glances of the Emergent church, the ever-looming threat of corporate over in Rome, and on and on. Hilarity ensues.

Whoever the new pope is, I hope he's a uniter, not a divider. And not a woman. And not from the Left Coast. And not a bigot.

Chris Hubris
Chris Chew This
Chris Hurl Erps
Chris Hogwarts
Chris Eew! Warts!

In my defense, I did mention your requests to the powers that be at InterVarsity Press--if only to spread the mockery beyond the walls of my office.

That being said, I'm a fan and have half a mind to paing one of my own action figures to look like you. Maybe Wolverine because it wouldn't take near as long, or Colossus because I have a spare, Or Doctor Octopus because, let's face it, you're a bit grabby.

Marcus:

Ummm . . . yes? Definitely? Still in print, just awaiting your marketing genius.

For a book promotional video to be the best ever, you'd think it would need to generate some book sales . . .

The blond on the conveyor belt is IVP employee Holly Who Would Not Want Her Last Name Mentioned. They wouldn't be secret red tights if I told you, now would they?

Welcome to InterVarsity! I'll be eager to hear how things go for you.

Welcome to InterVarsity! I'll be eager to hear how things go for you.

Welcome to InterVarsity! I'll be eager to hear how things go for you.

It'd be good, now that we're twenty years past Miller's Dark Knight Returns, and especially now that Batman Begins is borrowing from his Batman: Year One, and his Sin City has been given a film treatment, to explore Frank Miller's concept of city or community. Gotham is certainly front and center in his Batman stories, and Sin City is the thread of several stories for Miller. He's done other bleak-near-future projects as well (Robocop II, for example--not his best work), and given the importance of the city in our understanding of community and especially now that we're out of the Cold War with the Soviets, I'd be interested in a fresh discussion of his vision for redeemed community. He did a sequel to DKR that I've forgotten pretty much all the details, but it was written in the last few years and would show some of his own progression, I'd imagine.

Thanks for posting this article. I wish I'd found it sooner--it could have shaped some of my own recent writing about Batman.

It'd be good, now that we're twenty years past Miller's Dark Knight Returns, and especially now that Batman Begins is borrowing from his Batman: Year One, and his Sin City has been given a film treatment, to explore Frank Miller's concept of city or community. Gotham is certainly front and center in his Batman stories, and Sin City is the thread of several stories for Miller. He's done other bleak-near-future projects as well (Robocop II, for example--not his best work), and given the importance of the city in our understanding of community and especially now that we're out of the Cold War with the Soviets, I'd be interested in a fresh discussion of his vision for redeemed community. He did a sequel to DKR that I've forgotten pretty much all the details, but it was written in the last few years and would show some of his own progression, I'd imagine.


Thanks for posting this article. I wish I'd found it sooner--it could have shaped some of my own recent writing about Batman.

It'd be good, now that we're twenty years past Miller's Dark Knight Returns, and especially now that Batman Begins is borrowing from his Batman: Year One, and his Sin City has been given a film treatment, to explore Frank Miller's concept of city or community. Gotham is certainly front and center in his Batman stories, and Sin City is the thread of several stories for Miller. He's done other bleak-near-future projects as well (Robocop II, for example--not his best work), and given the importance of the city in our understanding of community and especially now that we're out of the Cold War with the Soviets, I'd be interested in a fresh discussion of his vision for redeemed community. He did a sequel to DKR that I've forgotten pretty much all the details, but it was written in the last few years and would show some of his own progression, I'd imagine.

Thanks for posting this article. I wish I'd found it sooner--it could have shaped some of my own recent writing about Batman.

Hey:

We had a graphic novel discussion group at work for a while, and the person who made posters lifted a panel from DKR to hint at the nature of the discussion: Batman in classic leaping pose, with sidescreens of people on the street speculating about who or what he is. Meanwhile Batman is being "born again," experiencing a "baptism" in the midst of his return to active duty. Super-cool. I'll be gobbling up your posts about this. Nice to meet another blogger.

Hey:


We had a graphic novel discussion group at work for a while, and the person who made posters lifted a panel from DKR to hint at the nature of the discussion: Batman in classic leaping pose, with sidescreens of people on the street speculating about who or what he is. Meanwhile Batman is being "born again," experiencing a "baptism" in the midst of his return to active duty. Super-cool. I'll be gobbling up your posts about this. Nice to meet another blogger.

Hey:

We had a graphic novel discussion group at work for a while, and the person who made posters lifted a panel from DKR to hint at the nature of the discussion: Batman in classic leaping pose, with sidescreens of people on the street speculating about who or what he is. Meanwhile Batman is being "born again," experiencing a "baptism" in the midst of his return to active duty. Super-cool. I'll be gobbling up your posts about this. Nice to meet another blogger.