Today at Gotham, we had a lengthy morning discussion about sneezes, and how different people, and different cultures, handle sneezing. Generally, people say “bless you,” as you probably know, but in places like Japan, there isn’t a lot of blessing going around post-sneeze. It’s a cultural thing. Continue reading “How to handle, or not handle, a sneeze”
What are you reading?
Given the range of writers that exist in the Gotham office, it stands to reason that the range of what those writers are reading would be pretty diverse, and so we posed the simple question in the office today: What are you reading? Continue reading “What are you reading?”
A Poet or a Doctor?
Another brain-bending question arose in the Gotham Office today, and it went like this: Who is more important to society, poets or doctors? (This was a better question than the first one: Would it be funny if Beetlejuice took a Gotham class?)
The answer seemed easy. Doctors are. Poets don’t contribute to society the way that our medical professionals do, and they never will. As Alex pointed out, if he’s having a heart attack, he’d rather have a doctor, not a poet. Continue reading “A Poet or a Doctor?”