Speaking of Superman…
Lindsay posted yesterday about the return of Superman, which coincides with a couple links I’ve stumbled across in the last few days. The first was passed on by a fellow metblog author, discussing a recent increase of “reals”
They must stand for unambiguous and unsponsored good. They must create their own Spandex and rubber costumes without infringing Marvel or DC Comics copyrights, but match them with exotic names – Green Scorpion in Arizona, Terrifica in New York, Mr Xtreme in San Diego and Mr Silent in Indianapolis
The second is a post at io9, discussing the superheros of MySpace.
So combine the fact that there are Reals out there, and MySpace is helping them find and protect their legal rights, it begs the question: where is Pittsburgh’s superhero? And no, Steely McBeam most certainly does not count!
On a side note, I don’t know if Spoon River Metblogs is finishing up, or just changing into another form. It’s worth a look if you haven’t seen it (or in my case, read it in about a month) , maybe one of the citizens there is a Real and we never realized it.
Thanks for the mention, Mike. Spoon River Metblogs had indeed reached its conclusion. I’ve been remiss in posting a wrap-up note – hoping to get that up in the next few days. And I may be doing a talk about it at Carnegie Mellon in February.
Please let me know if you’ll be speaking at CMU, I would love to stop by if it’s open to the public! I saw Spoon River Anthology at St. Vincent a few years back during their summer theater season and loved it, so I was glad to see it here on metblogs. Best of luck with the next part of the conversation!