456: Question based on inputs from TKB. What connects these two films? Clip1, Clip2. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVbIUQneRS0] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMP86h3wkkg] 455: The start of Rushdie’s “The Satanic Verses”

455: First two pages from the acclaimed new comic book series – “Air”. (An author’s name has been blanked out.) What literary allusion is being made here? 454: Jerry Garcia. (The Cherry Garcia flavour named after him; Captain Trips, the name given to the apocalyptic flu which wipes out most of human civilization in the…