Word: pantheonic
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...Black Hole by Charles Burns (Pantheon...
...Epileptic by David B. (Pantheon...
When a random person friends you—say, they think you’re kind of cute or, more likely, want to raise their social capital by boasting a four-digit number of associates—accepting them into your pantheon of friends is a gesture of kindness. However, facebook.com’s upcoming “feature” that allows you to affix “degrees of friendship” will rub into random persons’ proverbial faces that, in fact, they might not know you at all—ouch. That this...
...McLaren dubbed the "Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle"-he maintains that the iconoclastic band he devised from his King's Road boutique was really just an elaborate prank on the music industry. Indeed, there is more than a measure of irony in the Pistols' being anointed to the iconic pantheon of a genre they had decried as fatuously boring and had aimed to destroy. Still, the actual band-drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones, original bass player Glen Matlock and infamously thorny frontman, John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten)-perceive the invitation as long overdue, asserting that they were the only...
...gone from an obscure and, frankly, somewhat nerdy fad to a genuine alternative to mainstream news outlets, a shadow media empire that is rivaling networks and newspapers in power and influence. Which raises the question: Who are these folks anyway? And what exactly are they doing to the established pantheon of American media...