"What watch?"
"Ten watch."
"Such much!"
"You will get along beautifully in America."

(Yeah, it's the same film, I can't help it if this guy has good taste in movies.)

Pro tip: don't make plans that require a late checkout from your hotel until you ask if a late checkout is possible, because sometimes, it's not.

For now, but just wait until the Madison Public Marlet opens!

JK, the Madison Public Market will never open and will be a historic flop if it does.

What do the red dots on the map represent?

This seems up @apiln.bsky.social's alley

What is it that makes people think they're entitled to see their favorite sports teams on TV for free? Why should the athletics industry not be allowed to extract as much value from their product as the market will support?

Most Catholic universities are founded by a religious order like the Jesuits, who as part of their charter are authorized to form educational institutions. CUA was founded by the U.S. Council of Bishops, which doesn't have that innate authority, so they needed permission from the pope.

if i lived in popeye town and one day i saw a ropy little sailor punch a huge guy so hard his skeleton flew out of his mouth thats the only thing i would talk about for the rest of my life

Knowing Fanlund, "electability" in this context means "More willing to defer to center-left NIMBY Boomers like me than to younger, more progressive, and less white-and-male voices."

Is that something Democrats can do without the consent of the whole committee or of Congress as a whole?

I couldn't either but didn't want to come right out and say it. 😀

Thanks for the alt text

I refuse to waste your time in this manner

The carillon at UW–Madison

Nice day to come to campus for a pointless meeting on my day off

It's a lot to wrap your head around, that's for sure. I've been a Legion guy for 50 years and there's plenty of lore I'm still not 100% clear on.

Blok? Started out as a member of the League of Super-Assassins, later became a Legion of Super-Heroes member. Possibly Gerry Conway introduced him with a face-turn in mind, but more than a year went by between his last appearance as an adversary and his first as an ally so who can say.

Sorry, lady, the tier that gets *your* name in the headline instead of your husband's starts at $81 million

May we assume that's why you didn't feature Schwartz today, even though he entered the industry before 1956 and is no longer with us?

Two panels from a Superman comic. in the first panel, Superman is donning an apron and saying, "Now to see how the cake turned out!" In the sedcond panel, he is holding a cake pan in his hands with a dismayed look on his face, saying "IT FELL!"

I think this also is by Stan Kaye. Regardless, it's pretty great. #SupermanDay

The Monkees - Sweet Young Thing 1966 Stereo YouTube video by Tony Rathbone

A song for #SupermanDay

Cover for Superman From The 30s To The 70s shows Superman standing heroically in front of assorted panels from his early adventures

Cover for the Great Superman Book shows him flying in front of his big S insignia, and promises a wealth of information on the character in a whole range of blurb copy

Two books that opened my eyes as a kid were Superman: from the 30s to the 70s and, a little later, The Great Superman Book. The width and weirdness of his world really won me over. It’s when I stopped taking him for granted as part of the landscape
#comicsky #superman #supermanday

Mel Ramos’s first Pop Art painting depicts Superman, one of America’s most famous cultural icons. In 1962, this comic book character provided a popular-culture antidote to the serious pretensions of contemporary art. Perceiving a link between the art of the past and that of the present, Ramos depicted his “comic book gods and goddesses” as contemporary counterparts to the ancient heroes and heroines of Greek mythology. A larger-than-life figure from Ramos’s childhood, Superman represented a Depression-era fantasy in which even an ordinary man such as Clark Kent could be transformed into a superhero. A twentieth-century equivalent to the nineteenth century cowboy, Superman also seemed to embody America’s belief in the ultimate triumph of good over evil and its self-perceived role as the definer and defender of that good. By 1962, such moral certainties had been complicated by events such as the Holocaust, the dropping of the atomic bomb, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.

#SupermanDay fine art 4/3

Mel Ramos (American, 1935–2018)
Superman, 1962
Oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California

#SupermanDay fine art 3/3

#SupermanDay fine art 2/3

#SupermanDay fine art 1/3

Well, he is a former cartoonist ... not a good one, as I recall, but he had some comics published in the Washington City Paper in his salad days.

#SupermanDay

The cover of Forbidden Worlds #123, depicting a line of wooden Indian sculptures brandishing tomahawks, while a uniformed security guard fires a pistol at them and shouts, "RUN! THOSE THINGS CAN'T BE STOPPED!" A caption reads, UNLIVING THINGS ... YET THEY STALKED FORWARD WITH DEADLY PURPOSE! DON'T MIS ... The GHOST in the WOODEN INDIAN PLANT!"

Not a Superman cover, but a good excuse to share my favorite Kurt Schaffenberger cover

Irv Novick! Can't imagine he did many Superman covers.