There were these two guys in a lunatic asylum...

...and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum anymore. They decide they're going to escape!

So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moonlight... stretching away to freedom.

Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend daredn't make the leap. Y'see he's afraid of falling.

So then, the first guy has an idea. He says "Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!"

But the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says "Wh-what do you think I am? CRAZY?

You'd turn it off when I was half way across!"



Yeah... Just read The Killing Joke. Pretty disturbing stuff... You sympathise with a psychopath, and it's finally brought home just how bat shit crazy Batman really is.

Had my first class this week, and got another two tomorrow. Studying comics this semester, and I've never been so excited about reading the course material before. I've actually already read a lot of it, including the secondary sources and critical writing stuff, which leaves me in a pretty good position for focusing on reading for Digital Poetry, which looks to be pretty complex and intellectual. A lot of it is free online though, which is cool:

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries - Dakota.

In all, fourth year is looking to be pretty exciting;  the lyrics of Bob Dylan and American Modernist Poetry next semester, another personal fandom/difficult and intellectual combo, and both very interesting (to me, anyway).

Been on a big hip hop binge lately; I dunno why, there seems to be this link in my head between comics and hip hop. Especially been listening to a lot of Wu Tang (yes, I am 13 years old), as well as the many solo albums that have been made by the various members, especially Liquid Swords by GZA/Genius. I was gonna post C.R.E.A.M, but this is more amusing, as it kinda gives the impression of a poorly made infomercial aimed at selling the Clan to record labels (which is actually pretty much what it is):



I like the way Ghostface's name is written "Ghost Face Killer" instead of the usual "Killah", as if they sent off the footage to some cheap professional movie editing company, and the guy making it refused to typset it "Killah" because it was a crime against English. Although, ODB has his name with the usual "Ol'" as opposed to "Old".

It's also funny how much they have to censor the swear words, especially during ODB's part. I think he says "bite my style, I'll bite your motherfucking ass" at about 2:31, all of which is bleeped, to comic effect.

I really am going to post more often from now on. Really.