Discourse Chronicle

[Here are only a few stamps offered next summer]: Katherine Anne Porter Also in May, Pulitzer Prize winning author Katherine Anne Porter will be the 22nd honoree immortalized on a stamp in the Postal Service’s Literary Arts series. Born in Indian Creek, TX in 1890, Porter taught at Stanford, yet she never graduated from high […]

category: Popular Culture    

Ten comic book heroes will be saluted on the “DC Comics Super Heroes” stamps next summer. Half of the pane of 20 will be portraits of the characters; the other half will show individual comic book covers devoted to their exploits. The characters include Aquaman, Batman, The Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Plastic Man, […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

“People recognise the Bond theme as soon as they hear ‘dum de-de dum dum dum’. But I wrote it for an Asian musical, A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS. When I was approached to write the music to DR NO, I split up the notes and the tune took on a more sinister sound. The rest […]

category: Popular Culture    

Titans Tower quotes an unnamed source close to the series in saying that Cartoon Network has passed on the option of a sixth season of the animated series based on the DC Comics property. Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond and The New Batman Adventures all met similar fates in their […]

category: Popular Culture, Television    

Activision, Inc. announced today that the company has signed an agreement with Spider-Man Merchandising L.P., a limited partnership between Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and Sony Pictures Consumer Products Inc., to extend its exclusive worldwide publishing rights to the phenomenally successful “Spider-Man” motion pictures through 2017. The license grants Activision the right to publish entertainment software products […]

category: Comics, Gaming, Popular Culture    

Doctors in France say they have performed the first partial face transplant on a woman who had suffered extensive injuries in a dog attack. A joint statement from hospitals in Lyon and Amiens in northern France said on Wednesday the surgery took place Sunday in Amiens on a 38-year-old woman, replacing her nose, lips and […]

category: Health, Technology    

[Stumpo:] We have put up a website which invites visitors to try to write the 7th book in the Harry Potter series before J.K. Rowling can. Each visitor can be reader, writer, and editor, contributing to and changing this ever-evolving project. With any luck, there will be multiple versions of the “book” by time the […]

category: Bibliography, Literacy, Poetry, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology    

“What you start seeing is the brand or logo slapped onto a product that isn’t strong or that doesn’t work well or isn’t full of goodness,” said Gorder, director of business development and marketing for Little & Co. “That reflects negatively on the brand itself and over time, if a consumer has a negative experience […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics    

[Marz:] “It’s exciting to come back to a character that I had a hand in creating, especially right now”, Marz told Newsarama. “The DC Universe has a real sense of excitement and creation, obviously, and I’m really looking forward to being part of that. It’s very nice to be invited to the party. The assignment […]

category: Comics, Popular Culture    

[No, I am not at home with my family for Thanksgiving today. The reason is because there is no point in spending $400 now to go home for a weekend and then another $400 again a few weeks later to stay for a month at Christmas. I miss my family, of course, but waiting a […]

category: Life