Comments on: What Would Batman Do? http://distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/ Cleveland, Life, Politics, Food... & everything else. Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Tina http://distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-226 Tina Wed, 01 Mar 2006 02:32:35 +0000 http://www.distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-226 Tim: you don't need to make me any more angry at my immune system than I already am! I'm pretty mad that I missed the salon -- I missed it because I was sick (again), so I missed the great architecture and conversation. I wish I could have been there. Daman: You may hate me, love, but I adore you. We'll just have to agree to disagree on the issue of Batman purism, since I will always have a fondness for the slightly darker Dark Knight. Excellent points. Tim: you don’t need to make me any more angry at my immune system than I already am! I’m pretty mad that I missed the salon — I missed it because I was sick (again), so I missed the great architecture and conversation. I wish I could have been there.

Daman: You may hate me, love, but I adore you. We’ll just have to agree to disagree on the issue of Batman purism, since I will always have a fondness for the slightly darker Dark Knight. Excellent points.

]]> By: Daman, Tina's Husband http://distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-225 Daman, Tina's Husband Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:24:20 +0000 http://www.distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-225 First, I hate you, my dear wife. Second, I am a purist when it comes to Batman mythology, not one of these Frank Miller or other Johnny-come-lately. Bruce Wayne wouldn't... shouldn't be some penthouse apartment playboy. He lives in "stately Wayne Manor." There is just no really good place in Cleveland for him to have the spread that would be required for Wayne Manor. It would be located out in Gates Mills, Willoughby Hills, Chagrin, or as close as the Gold Coast. Tina argued that those places would be too far. "How would he see the Bat Signal?" Umm, helloooooo? Batman was always on patrol at night in the city. He would see it while roaming the mean streets and doing his dark knight duties. He wouldn't live downtown or any place too close because his route could rather easily be traced by the police and criminals. But, having a bit of a drive to get to the Batcave, he could easily lose any followers on his way to "the burbs." <abbr title="Wayne Enterprises">WE</abbr> would be housed in Key Tower. So, he would have labs and a place to throw parties downtown. That I will give you. Finally, Cleveland has everything that Gotham requires. We have steady crime. We have gothic structures and noticeably decaying infrastructure. Homeless. Seemingly corrupt and/or lacking police force. Varied industrial institutions: shipping, tech, manufacturing, etc. Cleveland could totally host and support a Batman. The question isn't whether would Batman "Believe in Cleveland." Would Cleveland believe in Batman?! First, I hate you, my dear wife.

Second, I am a purist when it comes to Batman mythology, not one of these Frank Miller or other Johnny-come-lately. Bruce Wayne wouldn’t… shouldn’t be some penthouse apartment playboy. He lives in “stately Wayne Manor.” There is just no really good place in Cleveland for him to have the spread that would be required for Wayne Manor. It would be located out in Gates Mills, Willoughby Hills, Chagrin, or as close as the Gold Coast.

Tina argued that those places would be too far. “How would he see the Bat Signal?” Umm, helloooooo? Batman was always on patrol at night in the city. He would see it while roaming the mean streets and doing his dark knight duties.

He wouldn’t live downtown or any place too close because his route could rather easily be traced by the police and criminals. But, having a bit of a drive to get to the Batcave, he could easily lose any followers on his way to “the burbs.”

WE would be housed in Key Tower. So, he would have labs and a place to throw parties downtown. That I will give you.

Finally, Cleveland has everything that Gotham requires. We have steady crime. We have gothic structures and noticeably decaying infrastructure. Homeless. Seemingly corrupt and/or lacking police force. Varied industrial institutions: shipping, tech, manufacturing, etc.

Cleveland could totally host and support a Batman. The question isn’t whether would Batman “Believe in Cleveland.” Would Cleveland believe in Batman?!

]]> By: Tim Ferris http://distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-224 Tim Ferris Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:45:56 +0000 http://www.distractedmind.com/2006/what-would-batman-do/#comment-224 Madame T., had you been at the MTB Salon Sunday, you would not be asking such questions; you would know intuitively that Batman would live in the vicinity of East 55th and Broadway and hang with Dennis Althar. We reached Dennis' loft through a rolling iron gate, through a huge garage-cave, and up a flight of stairs that zigged and zagged through things like a warehouse and a studio and a workshop into a dwelling, and in a corner of the dwelling was a real phone booth with a Superman suit. Obviously, Dennis has friends in high places and tries to be accommodating. We went on a tour later of a building a few blocks down that is ready for Bat-occupancy. But you know, looking back on it, Batman may already be here, and we may have seen him, and just not realized it. Madame T., had you been at the MTB Salon Sunday, you would not be asking such questions; you would know intuitively that Batman would live in the vicinity of East 55th and Broadway and hang with Dennis Althar. We reached Dennis’ loft through a rolling iron gate, through a huge garage-cave, and up a flight of stairs that zigged and zagged through things like a warehouse and a studio and a workshop into a dwelling, and in a corner of the dwelling was a real phone booth with a Superman suit. Obviously, Dennis has friends in high places and tries to be accommodating. We went on a tour later of a building a few blocks down that is ready for Bat-occupancy. But you know, looking back on it, Batman may already be here, and we may have seen him, and just not realized it.

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