supervillain sound

I’ve been thinking for a while that Criminal Studios wasn’t quite the right name for the Lair’s recording environment, and that Supervillain Studios might be better. But while a heat ray is pretty damn neat, I haven’t been entirely convinced it’s enough to merit exactly that much better.

But now that I have the Rainmaker, and other villains showing up in the Lair? I think it’s time for an upgrade. Criminality is fine, but Supervillainy? That’s awesome.

I do worry a little bit about the whole name recognition thing (“What happened to Criminal Studios?” “I dunno. Bumped off, I guess.”). But at my scale I think it’s safe not to think too much about that.

More importantly, there’s a videogame company in California called Supervillain Studios. Do I need to care about that?

Maybe Supervillain Sound. That seems to solve it, while still being significantly sibilant. Also, touches on the Puget part of the Salish Sea.

We don’t have a logo, tho’. Should I make a logo?

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worse than you know

You learn about Jim Crow in school, maybe, but it was worse than you probably know. C.f. The South's Shocking Hidden History: Thousands of Blacks Forced Into Slavery Until WW2: The horrifying, little-known story of how hundreds of thousands of blacks worked in brutal bondage right up to the middle of the 20th century. The author, a former Wall Street Journal bureau chief, won a Pulitzer in 2009 for the book he wrote on the topic. The linked article gives you a bit of an overview, though, and is worth reading.

When doing so, note how the convict-slave-labour system is being reinvented today, with the school-to-prison pipeline, and the privatisation of the incarceration system. Nothing, including slavery, is ever over, is it?