Gerry Canavan

For more information on my forthcoming senescence, please consult Superhero Decadence and Superheroes as Senior Citizens .

Plemons was tall and skinny and good-looking, with light brown skin. He had joined the Army late, at twenty-seven, after discovering that hi...

Monday! * Steve Benen covers the behind-the-scenes wrangling around the public option. Surprising to see a hack like Bill Frist on board. ...

Thursday! * The First Rule of J-School Is You Don't Talk About J-School Debt. * Nowhere in Manhattan. Hard to believe it is Manhattan....

Tuesday night. * I've had to remove the Amazon ads from the sidebar due to Amazon Associates now being taxed in North Carolina . I don...

Thursday night links. * Artists and the recession. * Tough day for celebrity: Farrah Fawcett has died, and Michael Jackson has been rushed ...

Random. * Call us "brights": Evidence is reviewed pointing to a negative relationship between intelligence and religious belief in...

A little busy today, but here are a few links I've saved up. * Watchmen link of the day: The Fate of Hooded Justice and Captain Metrop...

Superhero presidents . With appearances by Superman, Captain America, and the notorious Prez .

As befits a gray-haired eminence, I have recently fallen in love with episodes of This American Life , which I now download and listen to c...

Thursday links while I should be doing other things. Also, for the tiny handful of Final Crisis fans out there&mash;spoiler alert. * D...

And speaking of deeply unserious: that Shazam! movie may not be so dead after all .

No one watches &c: Fox has won a surprise ruling in their Watchmen suit , throwing the release date and other details surrounding the ...

Quick ones. * Naturally, Barack Obama is Time 's Person of the Year . For a brief while I thought they might pick someone else for shock...

Can Bryan "Company Man" Fuller save Heroes ? Fresh from the (sigh) cancellation of Pushing Daisies , he's looking like the s...

Pclem matches yesterday's Confessions of a Superhero post with a This American Life segment about a man who began dressing in a hand...

Poli-Sci-Fi Radio (live 4-6 every Sunday!) turned me on to Confessions of a Superhero , an excellent independent (but Netflixable ) docume...

Will the next Superman movie reboot the franchise? A lot of people are taking recent statements from Warner Bros. President Jeff Robinov ...

Late night. * 'Our Phony Economy' : Why measuring GDP doesn't tell us much of anything we need to know. In Harper's , via Me...

Have superhero movies peaked? A. O. Scott thinks they may have , but on this point he is totally, totally wrong. I promise you: on the day ...