Just to tell you once again, who's bad

The internet is a lot like David Hasselhoff: just when I think I’ve seen it all, they both prove me wrong.


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Add this to the reasons why I love the English language: if you go to Thesaurus.com and punch in the word “bad”, and this is the top entry that comes up:

Main Entry: bad
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: good
Synonyms: effective, excellent, fashionable, sharp, stylish

I don’t understand how anyone learns this language if they aren’t raised with it.
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I’ve been reading The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days recently. “Reading” may not be accurate, as the book is a mainly a picture book, an oddly shaped coffee table book if you will. The book is quite entertaining, as it is stuffed with images from golden age DC comics- one for every day of the year- and commentary on those images and the trends of the time. This image is my favourite so far:


Put together by comics historian Les Daniels and graphic design guru Chip Kidd, the book is fun in both content and design. Daniels has a good discussion of the design ideas behind the book in his portion of the introduction:

This book is part of a popular series presenting pictures in a particular format, one which may seem counterintuitive as far as the shape of comic books is concerned. But looking at these artefacts through a different set of eyes encourages new ways of seeing. Covers may be viewed here only in detail, as if they were Ye Olde Art Treasures, while small panels, often only about the proportions of postage stamps, can be blown up to gigantic size and take on an authority all their own. And the full page or half-page splashes, which introduced so many classic stories, can stand alone as the distinct if deceptive fantasias they so often were.

It’s an interesting experiment, and an interesting read. I don’t know if I’d buy it (although Amazon.com is selling it for an amazing US $12, two-thirds off the cover price) , but I recommend finding it at your local library if you can.