{"id":321,"date":"2002-02-26T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2002-02-27T07:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/02\/26\/321.html"},"modified":"2002-02-26T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2002-02-27T07:14:58","slug":"superheroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/02\/26\/superheroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Superheroes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back at Swarthmore, I wrote for a mystery comedy radio series with the unlikely name Banana Desperadoes.<\/cite> (This was before the sketch-comedy series, which was called Off the Cuff.<\/cite> Both were the brainchildren of comedy and theatre goddess Karen Arndt; wonder what ever happened to her. She was also the one who introduced me to the totally brilliant Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind<\/a> when I found myself in Chicago for a WorldCon, back in '91 or so.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, the intro narration for each episode of Banana Desperadoes<\/cite> started out like this, in a Melodramatic Detective-Show Narrator sort of voice:<\/p>\n

He<\/em> was a sophomore. She<\/em> was a junior. He<\/em> was male. She<\/em> was female. He had a pipe. She didn't. But they were both . . . detectives!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was reminded of this when someone at workshop the other week mentioned Yet Another Cute Web Toy: They Fight Crime!<\/a> And before I got a chance to go look for it on my own, someone else (unaffiliated) sent me a pointer to it. Sample:<\/p>\n

He's an all-American voodoo master criminal who hangs with the wrong crowd. She's a wealthy tempestuous mechanic fleeing from a Satanic cult. They fight crime! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Makes me want to make up a bunch of those of my own. Somehow this and \"Library<\/a>\" (mentioned a couple days back) remind me of \"What They Did<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, I must abashedly admit that I stretched the truth a little in my entry about Sacajawea dollars<\/a>; in point of fact, I've never looked at one and said \"Hi, Weezie.\" But the nickname \"Weezie\" does come to mind sometimes when I see them. But I feel I ought to emphasize that I only ever thought of that nickname because I'd seen it used in several places and had become convinced that it was fairly common.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Nick<\/a> notes that he knows people who call the coins \"sacs\" (which doesn't appeal to me) or \"goldies\" (which I think I like).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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