Memory Monday – A Big Freakin’ Cannon
This? As a kid? Blew. Me. Away. (From The Phantom Zone #3, March 1982. Written by Steve Gerber....
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Month: February 2012
Benedict Ain’t a Borgia: Why This Catholic Wants the Church to Shut the Hell Up about Birth Control
(NOTE: As I was working on this post, word hit the web that the Obama Administration is — surprise! — working on some sort of compromise with the Catholic Church. And — double surprise! — even though the President has decided to...
Read MoreThis Week in Rejection!: Black Warrior Review
What I like most is that they don’t even try for the hard sell. They just underline the subscription info and say “Thanks!” A part of me tried to convince the other part of me that they were thanking me for...
Read MoreThis Week in Rejection!: Madison Review 2
If you’ve been following This Week in Rejection! for a while, then you know that I am — retroactively — most thrilled by those rejections which have some element of personal contact to them. At the time I...
Read MoreMemory Monday – The Fadeaway Man!
Back in the mid-eighties, DC published a series titled Who’s Who in the DC Universe, which was basically an encyclopedia of their (then-) fifty-years’-worth of characters. I scoured this thing like a monk examining a...
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