Pariah

Live performances of The Hunger Games, Rollerball, The Running Man, and similar bloodsport spectacles.

So, Cancer, you're one of the twenty-three people on Earth who knows what R is?

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. -Texas Bix Bender

Why did the farmer receive an award? Because he was outstanding in his field.

"To be old and wise, you must first survive being young and stupid."

From a friend of mine in Ohio: "Ah, spring. That time of year when we shift from Hoth to Dagobah."

Did you mean to make such an egregious pun? (If so, kudos! )

Ceramics? Really?

I've spent the last four days (going on five) fighting off some kind of virus. So that's what this week's topic is going to be. New Topic: Three Songs about Sickness, Illness, and/or Disease

What was its Dewey Decimal System number?

I was talking about convertibles, obviously.

Numerology seems appropriate, does it not?

Is there such a thing as toplessology?

If he were, would we be capable of finding it out?

I thought that was the case. Oh, and completely off-topic, I love your avatar.

I don't recall that being the case, though I could be mistaken. But I don't think slavery was ever that big in colonial Pennsylvania.

My depth is immaterial to this conversation.

Isn't that just a stereotype?

All right, this is brilliant.

I seem to recall reading that this was one of the terms of the network being allowed to use the character: No costumes.

Is there anything that isn't interesting to physicists?

Who, moi?

...wasn't always right.

#1. I prefer bright colors for superheroes. #2. That said, I thought what the filmmakers did with X-Men worked just fine, because the X-films weren't really traditional four-color comics stories. #3. The bright red outfits in The Incredibles were perfect for those characters and that story. Reconstruction after Deconstruction and all that. #4. Christopher Reeves looked amazing as Superman in the bright blue and red. And so did Dean Cain. I don't know that the same look would have worked as well for Superman Returns, being the darker, edgier postmodern thing that it attempted to be. #5. And above all, I am the first to realize that nobody asked me.

For the record, I think it's ludicrous that we Americans spend nearly two-thirds of the year pretending we don't really know what time it is.