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Movie Night! Iron Man.

The kids were torn between a LEGO Marvel flick and a real one, so we did both. Iron Man‘s on now, and they’re soaking up the ‘heroic engineer’ trope. Good times, good times.

And, honestly, I needed a break from the obsessive focus on the Kickstarter numbers. This is supposed to be the slow period, you know. And if I keep telling myself that, I’ll even maybe start believing it.

Quote of the Day, I Didn’t Realize That ‘I Am Iron Man’ Was Ab-libbed edition.

I have a thought regarding this, I think.

One of the most memorable moments in Iron Man came when the film jettisoned all of the baggage of a secret identity. When Tony Stark admits to a packed press conference that he is Iron Man, it flouted 40 years of Marvel Comics tradition, but fans didn’t seem to mind a bit. The line was not scripted — it was a Downey ad-lib — so it took a measure of courage to include it.

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