Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography, and biography is the mesh through which our real life escapes.
--character of Oscar Wilde, in Tom Stoppard, The Invention of Love

HOW THE "IRON MAN" DVD SET COULD'VE BEEN MORE AWESOME: A VERY SHORT LIST.

1. Put the scenes from RDJ's screen test in the film

2. Include that "No Handlebars" fanvid (I feel weird about including a link, but if you're having a hard time finding it, email me)

3. DVD commentary by Samir Khader

4. Force Marvel to re-release "Armor Wars" at all, and "Demon in a Bottle" in a paperback version; also re-start The Order (more on this soon)

...Yeah, I think that's it. I think I'm going to watch it again now.

ARISTOPHANES SAYS, "OH PLATO. WHY SO SERIOUS?": My sister did an interview about fanfiction. I haven't listened to it yet, but I'm guessing I mostly agree with her. It's so odd to me that fanfiction seems strange to others; to me, the weird thing is coming to the close of every single story you ever read and never once thinking, "But what happened next? Oh, wouldn't it be awesome if?"

My longer post about fanfiction is here.

MY SISTER on a FindLaw piece about fanfiction, in which she was quoted. Her reaction to the piece is pretty similar to my own, though much more knowledgeable!

...[T]he fact that Hilden can’t tell we’re already in the nightmare world suggests something about how scary we ought to find it.

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(not legally relevant, but possibly interesting: me on fanfiction)