Dark Days

Posts will be up sporadically today, folks, since I was up super-late last night finishing a piece for The Atlantic on the greatness of OutKast's music videos, and while listening to "Bombs Over Baghdad" for four or five straight hours may be good for the soul, it's bad for composing blog posts.

In the mean time, let me just say that while The Sun has been wrong about EVERYTHING it's reported about who might play Catwoman in an as-yet-hypothetical sequel to The Dark Knight, it would be particularly tragic if folks gave in to the exceedingly stereotypical choice and cast Megan Fox for the role. What the role needs is someone discovering a genuine dark side, not a dumb starlet with a case of paralytic sexyface. I do really think Catwoman is the next logical place for this incarnation of the Batman movies to go. His love life was always a sort of pure spot in an exceedingly screwed-up worldview in the last two flicks. Letting Batman lose himself in a really self-destructive relationship makes sense, I think, and could keep the movie appropriately dark.