Slog - Comments on Disappointment http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1 It's official, Paul Constant. You and I will have to become superheroes by conventional means. From a scientist: I do drug research for a biotech company. One day, when I was taking blood samples from some rats that had been dosed with a radiolabeled (Indium 111) MS drug, the little son of a bitch bit me (not that I really blame her, we fuck them up pretty good). So, I am proud to say that I have been bitten by a radioactive rat. I have as of yet developed no superpowers. If I do, I will let you know. Another... Copyright 2008 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:30:51 -0800 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:42:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Tlazolteotl Is that supposed to be Spiderman? Because a spider, as you know, is not an insect. Maybe this is Cockroachman, then?

]]> Tlazolteotl http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056304 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056304 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:38:35 -0800 Comment by Greg Probably for the best. Who wants to develop rat-powers anyway?

Besides, Batman proves that all you need to be a superhero is brains, discipline, will, a training regimen, and like eleventy billion dollars.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056305 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056305 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:38:44 -0800 Comment by sw Well ... was the life of the rat ebbing from its radioactive body? Cause if not, you've still got a shot.

]]> sw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056310 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056310 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:39:55 -0800 Comment by kinaidos Oh, you just wait mister. One day you'll find yourself trapped in a maze, and you'll discover you have this incredible ability to find your way out of it. Then later you'll find yourself trapped in a storage freezer and discover that you are able to gnaw your way out of it. These are modest superpowers, of course, but also at a modest cost: a perhaps too strong predilection for smelly cheese, a tolerance of rotten meat, and a burning curiosity about what it's like to live in a sewer.

]]> kinaidos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056311 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056311 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:43:12 -0800 Comment by elenchos Dang. So there's no point in saving all that radioactive cat shit from the thyroid treatments?

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056322 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056322 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:48:32 -0800 Comment by Kyleen Aw man, now we'll never have an incarnation of splinter. Who will train the radioactive turtles now?!

]]> Kyleen http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056346 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056346 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:11:29 -0800 Comment by PopTart @2 Batman is my favorite. He's so virile, and brooding, and well, frankly, rich that I can't help but long for him, even in his weird rubber suit. Besides, he has so many cool techno toys it makes my geek loving heart go pitter patter. And! a butler. Sigh.

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056360 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:23:14 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV You might never know you've got incredible rat powers until you need them, to say, climb up through a toilet drain, or something.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056369 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:30:23 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Everyone knows rats don't work.

Only insects and flying creatures work.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056371 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056371 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:30:53 -0800 Comment by The Incredible Sulk Does drinking a can of Rize qualify as "conventional means" or not? If so, I believe Kelly O and Ari Spool have a solution for you.

AHHH ... HULK OUT!

LE HULK, C'EST SULK!

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

]]> The Incredible Sulk http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056386 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/disappointment_1#c1056386 Mailbag Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:42:15 -0800