So we at the Hooded Utilitarian are, at least in theory, going to start making use of high-tech label functionality. We’ll label each themed roundtable, so you can click on the label and read all the posts. We’ll also label with our names, so you can read posts by individual authors. Unless, you know, we forget to do it, which could happen.

I’ll also post the blog roundtable links on the side over there so you can click on them and read them for all posterity. (I have retro-labelled, and added our earlier roundtables on the side so you can read the blog forums of the past…today!)

And, hey, I even remembered to label this post. So far so good….

“About That CBO Report”

I have a review of their new album The Crying Light in the latest Chicago Reader. Here’s the first paragraph:

According to stereotype, people of idiosyncratic genders and sexualities congregate in cities. Their cabarets and fabulous performance events happen indoors and at night. For a variety of historical and cultural reasons, you probably wouldn’t expect to stumble upon Marlene Dietrich in hip waders serenading salmon in the midst of a rural waterway. Queer artists—and often, prejudicially, queer people in general—tend to be associated not with naturalness and authenticity but with artifice and camp.

This image apparently got left out of the Comics in the Closet essay I wrote for TCJ 295. So I’m putting it here, in case anyone was missing it….

If Batman is the best because he makes himself the best, and if the Green Lantern Corps’ special rings are fueled by will power, then how come everyone gets to be a Green Lantern except for Bruce Wayne? He ought to be the greatest Green Lantern of them all.

Hey, we’ve got a president again.