The Nose: Our Favorite Superheroes & Rioting In Canada?
The Nose rounds up the week in pop culture.
Published: Jun 17, 2011
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The Nose: Our Favorite Superheroes & Rioting In Canada?
Sports and superheroes have certain elements in common. Maybe I just want to think that because today we're going to talk about superhero movies like the Green Lantern and the Spider-Man Broadway musical.
In fact, could I pause for just a second and say that, in my comic book years, it was always "The Green Lantern," but it seems like on the movie it's just "Green Lantern." Whatever. It was a stupid concept then and it's probably not much better now.
In sports and superheroes, we outsource some of our frustrations, but it seems as though, in the case of sports, our frustrations stay a little closer to us.
There were serious riots in Vancouver this week after that city's NHL loss, which raises questions about whether you're supposed to riot when you win or when you lose. Or whether Canadians just do everything a little different.
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Superheroes?
Come on everybody: where's Underdog?
E-mail from Sara
Growing up in the 70's I loved to watch The Super Friends on Saturday mornings. This was a wonderful collection of Super Powered beings who hung out in the The League of Justice. I loved Aqua Man who would use sonar to 'summon his underwater friends to help him battle the bad guys of the Legion of Doom. (They kinda remind me of The Cheny, Bush administration come to think of it) But of all the super friends, I loved the Woder Twins with their Waky Monkey Gleek. All they had to do was bump fists and they could magically change forms. The only restriction was that they cuold only be a mammal of a form of water. Hey that's all you need to solve lifes problems. And tthey were purple
E-mail from WG
Omg u guys are killing me tday ...so funny :)
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