Pulp Education

For many years I’ve understood that comic books were inextricably linked to the old “pulp” magazines that preceded them, with comics often “borrowing” story elements and characters from them. Many companies have even gone so far as to publish comics based on the old pulp characters.
Despite having at least a passing familiarity with some of the major pulp fiction heroes, I’d never actually read any of the pulps until recently when I found a bunch of Doc Savage stories in e-book form and loaded them up on my PDA.
Since that time I’ve learned a lot, discovering just how deeply comics creators dug into the pulps in “borrowing” concepts, characters, dialogue, and, well, pretty much every element, and that their impact is not limited to comics. Pretty much every post-pulp fiction storytelling medium has been strongly influenced by those cheap, lurid little magazines.
Beyond that, though, I’ve learned many other useful things about life and the world we live it in, and I thought I should share them with you.

What I’ve Learned From Reading Doc Savage:

Eskimos stink!
Attractive people are smarter, kinder, and just generally better than unattractive people.
Conversely, unattractive people are roughly 99% more likely to be evil than attractive people.
The darker your skin, the dumber you are.
Having zero interest in the opposite sex and keeping yourself constantly surrounded by big, sweaty men does not necessarily mean that you’re gay, apparently.
Mongolians randomly say “Aiieeee!” in the course of casual conversations.
Lobotomies are the most effective weapon in the war on crime.
Even the smartest woman is still just a daffy dame.

And that’s just a sampling of the knowledge contained within. Bear in mind too that I’ve only read four complete stories, with nearly 30 more to go, so once I finish, my head will be bursting with useful information!
Not much has happened today, beyond getting my car back. For some reason it only ended up costing me about $40 as opposed to the $300 I was quoted yesterday.
Not sure what the deal is, as according to the invoice they did actually work on the clutch.
In any case, I'm not complaining.