Won’t Miss: Cigarettes and Perfume Having imported the former from the Americas, and having claimed supremacy over the latter, the French smoke cigarettes and wear perfume like they’re both going out of style – which they absolutely are. I am not particularly scent-sensitive, but I’ve still had many a promenade disrupted by walking unawares into…
This weekend, S and I shelled out for beer, babysitting, and cinema tix to see Doctor Strange, the eighty-thousandth Marvel superhero movie released in the last 15 years. It was worth it, I guess; but even as Marvel is ramping up for a new tier of cosmic crossover craziness, I’m cooling to the whole notion…
This is another one of my earliest encounters with Hamlet, although I’m having trouble figuring out exactly when I would have run into it. Part of the problem is the convoluted history of just about any major comics publishing line, but particularly the history of Classics Illustrated. From the Wikipedia page: Classics Illustrated is a…
