Best of the F-List today

[featherynscale]

1. Thai Spider-Man Saves Autistic Boy. Firefighter uses superhero costume to talk a scared boy off a ledge. Alleges that he keeps Spider-Man costume in his locker at work "to liven up school fire drills". We here at Featherynscale Industries are suspicious, but impressed. You go, cosplay guy!

2. "Sometimes the best news is that a story makes no news." Seventh-grade math teacher invites whole class to his commitment ceremony, nobody thinks it's that big a deal. Bonus points: 1. When asked "were you surprised to learn your teacher was gay?", seventh graders responded: “He’s not gay,” said Japhet Guzman, 12. “No,” agreed a lanky 13-year-old who walked with a bit of a tough-guy swagger, “he’s not gay. He’s bisexual. Why don’t you ask him?” 2. Bisexual math teacher is tremendously cute. Of course, he's a bisexual math teacher, so I may have some bias in that assessment.

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[gamera-spinning.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I remember when Marvel Comics started publishing Spider Man in India (a title cleverly called, "Spider Man: India") in 2004 - where Pete's name is Pavitr Prabhakar. They did a whole new take on the characters to make them native to the country - he lives in Mumbai with his Aunt Maya and Uncle Bihm and the girl of his dreams is Meera Jain. Instead of being bitten by a radioactive spider, he meets an ancient yogi that instructs him in supernatural crime-fighting spider yoga to fight evil.

Like Dave Barry, I am not making this up.

One wonders if a Thai version isn't now warranted?