Okay, so I found out a while ago that this blog shared a name with a piece by the French composer Maurice Jarre. Which, a few years ago, started to pop up in the Google results for "flying totems."
But now it's exclusive. This blog doesn't show up at all unless I add "blogspot." Dang. I was using the phrase before he was. I've never been so insulted in all my life.* #minorannoyances
*Not really true, but I can play it up.
2 comments:
I remember you writing about this blog name thief a while ago. Now his piece shows up on google searches rather than yours it may be that he paid them as it's certain it's not because of the quality of his work, pretentious and uninteresting as it is. Your blog is way more fun than his 'Flying Totems' composition.
I came across a link to a book review about the evolution of comics in the US. I don't know if you've seen it yourself or if you'd agree with the way the subject matter is presented. I looked askance at the first sentence that stated, The American comic book is inseparable from foreign policy, the great twentieth-century battles between capitalism and totalitarianism. I'm not sure there were ever many battles between those two.
Anyway, since it talks about a time long before even I saw the first comic book there are several aspects I had no idea about such as his mention that the original Superman beat people up. You can check it out if you want.
Well I certainly appreciate your saying that. I don't know that he necessarily got the name from me. The combination/juxtaposition of the two words could occur naturally to two different people. Wow, so you can actually pay Google to boost your site in searches and drown out others. Does not really inspire a lot of trust in Google.
The opening paragraph to that article strikes me as a parody of academic writing. If it's supposed to be serious, well, the joke is still on someone. That said, Hirsch does some pretty good reporting later on. I hadn't realized that Matt Baker, the creator of the (now) DC owned superheroine Phantom Lady was black, for one thing.
Yeah, Superman was a lot more two-fisted in his early days. To be fair he wasn't as strong then as he would later be written. Also he smacked around wife beaters, which was interesting. He changed a lot more over the years than Batman did.
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