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A new law that goes into effect in Ohio today makes it easier for Ohioans to get away scotch free with fatally stabbing or shooting any “intruder” in their home or (in some cases) their car.  Known as “the Castle Law,” this new law provides a get out-of-a-murder-wrap-for-free card to anyone with a good enough lawyer, provided their victim was a wizard, knight, or the other player’s rook.

Speaking of killing people, a film adaptation of Cleveland native Brian Michael Bendis’ award-winning comic book,Torso, is the subject of some hot debate in the Cleveland newspapers: Will it get filmed in Michigan? Will it get filmed in Cleveland? Will it get filmed at all? The book-through the use of black and white drawing, archival photography and 1930s issues of the Plain Dealer- tells the tale of an epic clash between the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run (aka the Torso Killer) and Cleveland Public Safety Director Eliot Ness.  If you haven’t done so already, head over to Carol and John’s, pick up a copy of Torso,  go down to Great Lakes Brewing Company and read the comic over a couple of smooth pints of Eliot Ness.

In other news, The Plain Dealer has let loose some steaming hot fashion news: baggy pants are back in style! Time to dust off those old Jncos! I myself have a pair with a huge embroidered dragon on each of the pant legs, I’m hoping that’s in style too.  However,  I am a little worried that we are about to see a rise in “self-defense” killings of baggy-pants-wearing “intruders.” Or maybe even a few baggy-pants-wearing torsos washing up on the banks of the Cuyahoga.