Wednesday May 02, 2007

Three Little Dots: Spidey Nonsense

The New York Times pulls out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, no doubt heeding my advice of a year ago. Guess they realized that pungent barbs—even administered by Stephen Colbert—cannot, in fact, topple the government. … Shorpy has freeze-framed and transcribed a prop letter from an old episode of Leave It to Beaver. It is wry and awesome. The naive Fifties my ass. [via] … Wouldn’t you love to see the style guide that led to the title of the Spider-Man sticker book pictured here? (Alexandra found it at a dollar store.) I like to imagine that the relevant rule read something like this: “Do not use MAN/WOMAN!! US persons hate the genders.”

Posted by jim at 08:15 PM ||