Wiki prod

Folks are having trouble editing Never-Ending Battle, bryant says its some DNS thing according to head58. I'm not havin any trouble with either Never-Ending Battle or tantanea so beats me whats going on. But if your having trouble posting entries to Never-Ending Battle I'm assured it will be resolved.

Second round is over, interesting grab bag. Definitely a Top 10 type of world we've got developing here. And Kirby, okay I'm the one mainly oozing Kirby but heh its a hobby.

I'd like to read a comic book without my wife laughing at me

So last night I'm reading the tpb of Trinity which is Matt Wagner's take on how Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman first met and worked together as a trio. It really was about how WOnder Woman met the two boys.

Theres a scene where Wonder Woman is totally chained up. peaseblossom looks across at me and sees it. I get a ribbing. It would be easier if DC would just publish Wonder Woman as a bondage comic least then I wouldn't get made fun of for reading it.

And even though think Ra's is one of the coolest villains out there I think I find most of his depictions rather lame.

Microhistories

Salon in an article about Rebecca Solnit new memoir makes the following comment:

"At a time when the trend in nonfiction publishing favors microhistories -- the current file under "C" alone yields popular books on cod, cocaine and caffeine -- Solnit's interests remain expansive. "Wanderlust," her sprawling history of walking, covered everything from early hominids stepping out on the savanna to latter-day tourists promenading along the postmodern wonderland of the Vegas Strip."

Now I've read Wanderlust, and I've also read my share of so-called microhistories. And I'd just like to say that Solnit's book shares just about all the same aspects as the best of the so-called microhistories. Taking a topic and expanding upon all its beautiful complexities. I think its rather snobbish to decry one because they are emant as popularizes and put on a pedestal the other because its written by an academic darling.