Sometimes it's nice to be reminded that I'm not making this all up.

Me:

[Superman Returns] mines the imagery of 9/11 in order to address the shit mist of uncertainty Americans fumbled through from 9/12 forward.

Warren Ellis:

I defined Global Frequency from the start as Rescue Fiction, if not explicitly Post-9/11 Rescue Fiction. Because Thunderbirds is the anti-Superman . . . But immediately after 9/11 I found people on message boards ACTUALLY SAYING OUT LOUD that they wished Superman were real because he would have saved the WTC. And that is an anti-evolutionary wish. What you say is, I wish the dozen or so people who knew this was going to happen could have informed someone who’d actually listen and that we had had the sense/madness to engineer a mechanical response to someone attacking NYC with flying death tubes.

Thunderbirds: Darwin’s Airforce.

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[blog nerd]

shit mist. I'm wondering. shitmist? shit-mist? very Kingesque. As in Stephen. Author of such phrases as "mouse fart" and frequent use of the past tense of to shit "shat". Very nice indeed.

[SEK]

I'm not sure where King got it from, but I certainly know who I stole it from (if not exactly where): Hunter S. Thompson. It's either in Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail or in his collected letters from that period, but I don't have either book handy at the moment.