rough day for anyone who believes in the sanctity of human life

My kingdom for the ability to opt out of being featured on the Discover tab

I never joke when the truth is funnier

But Doctor, "Pagliacci" is the title of the opera, not the name of the clown, and frankly the fact that you would make such an amateur mistake gives me cause to doubt your judgment as to the best course of treatment

Birthday celebration (observed) with the wife and kids at a local Mexican place. I am full of carne asada, tequila, and love, in no particular order

I know I’m a stuck record, but modern racism is such a kooky idea that once you provide a warm home to it, you are taking an anti-competence drug. You are going to be so pervious to crazes you will start believing any amount of moon man nonsense.

THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS - Live action/animation hybrid; Sigmund Freud snorts magical cocaine that gives him the power to enter people's dreams and solve their problems (Musical?)

HOW TO BE A WRITER, THE MAX LANDIS WAY: - Copy a list of "classic cult movies" from somebody else's Letterboxd account - Make a note (e.g. "Done in modern times with like cellphones and stuff") next to each title - IMPORTANT! Have a famous dad - Collect checks

"If you go in search of vengeance, be sure to dig two graves!" Bitch I'll dig as many as it takes, I do not give a single fuck

We had "use of state power to bully the private sector" when I was a kid, too, but we used to just call it "regulation"

Why does the entire industry look like they had a logo drawing contest and the only rule was “eat this acid and draw a butthole”?

right wing pastors are screaming, crying, throwing up because John Piper posted a Bible verse on the everything app.

My sense is that these guys, who often talk about regular people as 'NPCs' imagine that by seizing control of media outlets they can *create* such an audience. After all, that's what they think the 'Cathedral' did in the other direction. They can't imagine liberalism as an organic ideology.

She did some astonishing work -- and Alan Moore, may Glycon bless him, wrote her one of her greatest showcases in SWAMP THING #56, "My Blue Heaven," showing her virtuosity with a limited palette. A legend.

“If you get worse stuff, your grocery bill is cheaper” notes idiot that reintroduced measles

IT HAPPENED TO ME: We spent the morning antiquing -- and I liked it

You know what they do with horses they deem unusable, don’t you

Madeleine Carroll in a still from The General Died at Dawn (1936)... ...hello

On the other hand I just got an update on an anthology piece of mine that will be published in the spring, so doors closing, windows opening, things of that nature

How was there never a Venture Brothers villain called the Cuban Heel

Purity test is shorthand for “you care about the people I have already decided are expendable.”

a key feature of this is there is no public benefit to it at all. it is legislature designed to harm a specific group, nothing more.

The energy I bring to your social gathering

Welp. Radio silence has broken, and the publisher has made it official with the most upbeat, effusive ding note ever -- but still a ding note for all that

END OF EVANGELION (1997) | Dir: Hideki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki

HOW ARE WE STILL DOING THIS AFTER TEN YEARS WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKM

“You get to retire and I should start learning guerrilla war tactics” is something that keeps tumbling around in my brain as this country gets worse and worse

The catch is that "safe and pleasant public spaces" are primarily an aesthetic concern, while leftist policy is human-centered. They're not irreconcilable, but the former will be a knock-on effect of the latter rather than a primary aim

IMPORTANT QUESTION

I haven't posting as actively for a while now, and it only just occurred to me that the drop-off correlates pretty precisely with a dramatic uptick in my satisfaction with my personal and professional lives

Shout out to birthday boy Plastic Bertrand, Belgium's greatest export since the waffle. This TOP OF THE POPS clip is an all-timer.

I see Jesse Singal has a new piece up about The Trans Question, so I guess it's time to dust this off

Mariotryoshka

If you were one of the people who wrote a "has Me Too gone too far" or "the danger of Me Too's mob justice" article, I do think you have to reckon with the emails of Epstein and fellow powerful pedophiles strategizing on how to trick you into doing that

He is literally on the record as saying that he converted mostly for the networking opportunities

the @redsox.com are undefeated #DirtyWater

ANUBIS: whoa, whoa, easy there. let's not make any hasty decisions. or do anything we might regret. my name is anubis, what's yours? imhotep. nice to meet you imhotep. now we're talking to each other. we're friends. so how about you put down the gun, let the girl go, and i'll put away my feather.

also the idea that transgression is itself defiance of power, without any reference to who is transgressing or what purpose it serves.

They think punk means *acting without consent* not *acting in defiance of power*

[ Fred Schneider voice ] He was in a JAM

One heartbreaking thing about the rise of global fascism for me as a Gen Xer is that, being born into the postwar/post Civil Rights Act liberal social order, is that I understood from childhood that although society was far from perfect, the obvious way forward was to expand on previous reforms

Probably not great that we have a US president whose working vocabulary is about the size of a Jack Russell terrier's soundboard

I keep getting notices that I qualify for AD&D insurance through my credit union, and every time I'm momentarily like "Why would my Level 8 Gnome Illusionist from tenth grade even *need* insurance"

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Why do house flies love laundromats so much? Muhfuggers don't even wear clothes, let alone read Chick tracts