Is There Life Beyond Comics? Cheap Trick #3: Be Unpopular

I am so deeply cringe.

Brooklyn Bridge Return Bumper CBS/WCBS 2 1991-11-06 : 1s

This long quote is, incidentally, a decent general description of How Things Work these days

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Happy 100th, Mel Brooks.

Locutus management tip: Leadership is for lonely individuals and sociopaths. Follow the herd.

I'm building a team:

WE HAVE THE MATRIX AT HOME! The matrix at home:

me: should i chronicle history or document current events? funk soul brother: write about now

the “S” stands for “sleepy”

“Have you always been into comics?”

I looked it up and it's Ramona Fradon, co-creator of Metamorpho. No Louise Simonson?!

thinking about this again in light of new superhero film trailers dropping...

Every job given to a sexual predator is not just one job lost, but dozens as vulnerable people feel threatened and unwelcome in the industry and leave.

crazy to me that rich people have been so successful in perpetuating the lie that the poor are stealing from everyone. they don't have any money. the rich people are the ones with the money! that's who stole the money

As convention season gets underway, a reminder that we have an ongoing masking initiative pushing to make all comic events safer for all of us! 🧵1/3 ( art by @orchiscribbles.bsky.social )

Columbo #S04E06 A Deadly State of Mind 00:21:27

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A man: an expert, respected A woman: a know-it-all, reviled

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 26,1965

Art.

I can't believe people use AI when memes thrown together in 30 seconds using Microsoft Paint are so much funnier.

A revolting habit of patriarchy's upholders is insisting all women are there to be judged as pleasing or not pleasing their sad little libidos. And really it's not even about that: it's about displaying to other upholders that they are the anointed judges and not the judged. But judge him. Harshly.

From Recollections of My Nonexistence

Idk call me a fire breathing radical but I don’t think it’s just for women and only women to have to sacrifice their ambition, talent, dignity, material independence, and health in exchange for sex. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hormonal contraception is a gift to human survival, capacity, & health on par with vaccines. But because it’s mostly women’s survival, capacity, & health that it preserves, the right’s attack on it isn’t seen as the anti-science, anti-human regression as the anti-vax campaign is. That’s a mistake.

"I hope that before the end, you had known better water. A pond, somewhere quiet, with swaying reeds. A patch of shade. A morning in which no one photographed you for clout or generated AI duck-slop for their LinkedIn hot take."

I had nearly forgotten that social media could help spread the word about a problem that’s difficult to solve through the typical, polite channels. Last week I made an off the cuff post about my frustration with Josie & the Pussycats residuals people saw it. FF>> an interview with @vulture.com

Columbo #S05E03 Identity Crisis 00:32:56

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I like her Galadriel costume:

boardwalk at dusk, atlantic city, new jersey, 1978

and Lord help you if you are a woman who wants to put up healthy and safe boundaries for herself online!!!

Also not the biggest concern, but the situation Josh is accurately describing is a compound nightmare because the lack of employers means young creatives aren't learning anything about the craft from veterans of their industries. It's all atomized. And knowledge loss is thus massive :(

I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!!

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tower theater, fresno, california, 1987

make zines and share zines until they are ubiquitous to the point that there is no stopping or criminalizing them

I love love love this movie, but the studio royally screwed over both Dan DeCarlo (Josie's creator!) and Kay Hanley (Josie's voice!).

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller June 25,1948

Columbo #S03E08 A Friend in Deed 01:01:21

Nancy 6/25/26

"While the Violence Against Women Act prohibits states from directly charging for a rape kit, they are allowed to charge for anything not directly related to the exam—like STI testing or pregnancy testing ... 86% of women with private insurance will pay out of pocket for their sexual assault care."