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April 3, 2008 4:34

Don't Read This, Read That

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I am once again on leave from Time for a few weeks to finish up a book I'm working on. (Do not ever sell a book. A bunch of maniacs will come after you, tear a Word file off your hard drive, and print out like thousands of copies. They claim they can do this because I "deposited" their "check." Whatever.)

So I will be fobbing off a lot of cheap-ass postings, like this one, a link to a truly excellent analysis of the eternal question, is the Black Sabbath song "Iron Man" actually about the superhero Iron Man.

Um, now watch this Hellboy 2 trailer. OK, bye!

(But one more thing: what is with this trend of directors giving lifeless little intros to their movies? I have nothing against movie directors, but they cannot act or, apparently, even talk in an animated human-like way. And they are not good-looking. Not, you know, like bloggers.)

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Reader Comments (5)

Church:

Directors are wannabe actors?

Posted by Church | April 3, 2008 5:49 PM

quantrake:

Thank you for the iron man post

Posted by quantrake | April 3, 2008 10:30 PM

dennitzio:

What about the Cardigans' "Iron Man"? Much better song.

"He was turned to steel
in the great magnetic field
When he travelled time
for the future of mankind"

Hm. Maybe something is lost in translation from the original Swedish.

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Lev Grossman blogs about anything and everything that could be plausibly labeled geeky--science fiction, fantasy, video games, comic books, tech stuff, and so on. If it could get you beaten up in junior high, it's fair game. About the Author

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