Baltimore and Batwoman

Today I fingered through a Baltimore visitor guide. I got a vibe the city is into rhymes. A big picture of the harbor featured the copy, "Explor Baltimore" and there is a museum there called The Great Blacks in Wax Museum featuring famous African Americans. There's also a Japanese restaurant that's rated as one of the top 50 in the United States. This has nothing to do with rhymes, but I really want to go there after seeing the giant model boat filled with sushi. Next week I might have the opportunity to go there for work, but I'd really like to sample the city on a more personal occasion.

So the new Batwoman is gay - not for film, but for the comic book. Apparently she's an old acquaintance or friend of Batman, but he's apparently out of town. She's gay because DC Comics wants to have a more diverse set of superheroes. That's from the horse's mouth. My favorite bit of this news was hearing what others had to say in response to it. Some people feel it would be more diverse if a superhero were bald or overweight, or even (and this is my favorite) if the hero had cold sores. I'd personally like to see a superhero with a raging case of herpes. Nothing teaches kids about the realities of kissing a lot of folk like seeing your favorite cartoon character with facial blemishes.

I write this while watching the current Batman in slimmed down form in The Machinist. The entire movie you just want to feed porr Christian Bale. Apparently he ate a can of tuna and an apple a day for 60 days to get that thin, then he had to bulk up fast for Batman. Scary.