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if highschool is a metaphor for life, i'm in deep shit.

When the dust settled in the IC #7 finale, Alex Luthor (from Earth 3 if you read the original Crisis on Infinite Earths, the lead villain in all of this, and somewhat de-powered at this point, got away after a final standoff with Batman & Wonder Woman after it appeared that he died under a building collapse.

In one of the last pages of the book, Alex is alive and in Gotham City, lurking around the city streets planning his next move aloud to himself. But he walks down an alleyway and runs into Joker and the real Luthor we all know. Joker takes out Alex first with an acid splash from a trick flower, coupled with a blast to the face with his high-powered joy buzzer. While this brief torture scene is going on, Luthor tells his Earth 3 doppleganger that he underestimated some key factors in his grand scheme of reshaping the universe in his image, but his biggest mistake was "not letting the Joker play."

Luthor does all the talking (while Alex begs for mercy), and as he says all of this the Joker pulls out a gun a delivers a fatal shot to the head, simply laughing. A great scene in the tradition of the end of Silence of the Lambs when Hannibal is follwing Dr. Chilton when he's in hiding.

I think you're onto something. A Dworkinian something.

I heard back from galvagin. Should be cool on Saturday!

Thank you, good sir!

how have you been?

yeah. i think everybody's salary should be inverted and see what happens!

maybe you were lost in the reg somewhere in the stacks

thanks for the birthday wishes ... just getting over my hangover today...

Yeah, I want to see Brick as well. I've read some not-so-positive reviews, but Gordon-Levitt is a serious actor. I want to see what he's up to.

Some of the criticism seems to be simply because of the noir clichs. Ever heard of homage? Geez.

Dude, the last funny thing to come out of Dennis Miller's mouth was George W's cock.


Seriously he hasn't been funny since his stint on Monday Night Football.

I didn't even see when it was on, but I saw an ad or two for his last HBO stand-up special recently, and he was recycling jokes from an HBO special of his when I was in college, like in 1993!!!

I try, but the internet is just so much more up to date.

hmm. I dunno. polygamy could get expensive.

yes....but when a child is born, who raises him/her? ideally, the mother and biological father, correct? and does not mother and father both different but equal ways help shape that child (ideally?)

if that woman has multiple children with multiple men, how is that mother to juggle time with the men and children?

is not raising a child a 24/7 job?

again, this is with ideal mother and ideal father. wouldnt it simiply make sense for a woman to have multiple children with one single man? how does this allow for other "marriages?"

I don't know anything about the book. Don't really care to see the movie. Of course, someone told me I should see it today after I read your post.

I believe winter is more like 6 months there, That's why I moved away! SON OF A BITCH! I just didn't want to be too snotty.

Ooh, interesting. I really want to see that flick.

Indeed.

I was being at least half-facetious about the would-be philosophers. Just gotta defend my homies in the discipline, yo.

I am filled with envy that you will attend Lolapalooza. Even though I'd be the fogey there wondering when GNR was going to go on...

Ooh, make me some sort of a sultan, would you?

How interesting. Seems like people need to reach pretty far for something "new" to wreite about these days.

I'll be seeing my parents tomorrow. Other than that the wife and I are just relaxing.

Meh, I worked. This is my "weekend" now. You?