At 8:30 PM on September 19, 2005, a sitcom launched featuring one of the stars of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, one star of Freaks & Geeks, and a star of Harold & Kumar movies. No, wait, make that TWO sitcoms. How I Met Your Mother became a large success. Kitchen Confidential aired just 4 episodes.

Humble Bundle's been on a role lately!

This is why I have a problem with "medical privacy" as implemented in the US. I really want there to be a central database where every doctor I give permission to can update and read from, rather than relying on my poor memory and lack of medical understanding as the pass-through point for data.

Ooooh, my favorite flavor!

With the requested resignation of John Phelan, the Acting Secretary of the Navy is now Hung Cao. We will see how long this foreign-born non-white person with. name that Trump will either trip over or smirk at will remain in a position of power.

The only movie that has ever had me thinking "I'd kinda like to read Ralph Nader's review..."

In the long run, I'd like to get rid of the district-based House of Representatives altogether. I just want to hand my proxy to someone of my choosing, get a chance to change it every six months, and have a few hundred representatives wielding millions of votes. Not gonna happen, I know.

You think of Peter Parker as a Web-Spinner, but in 1925, he was more a yarn spinner...

A 1935 story about Bruce Wayne just above an announcement of a Batman Pageant. It's like they're just wanting the villains to figure things out!

Reposting now that images are visible.

Suddenly, people are realizing that alt text is actually useful.

I have given money to the SPLC in the past, and doing things like infiltrating groups to gain information is very much within the things that I wanted that money to be used for.

There are writers who started in comics well after me who have gone on to far larger careers and acclaim, but whose work has never been approved by the Comics Code Authority. Approved by authority is the true mark of greatness, right?

I am extra happy about this story, not just because it was fun to write (really, getting an assignment of "these three famous drivers help Santa" is permission for fun), but -- and other licensed material writers will understand this -- it had FOUR licensors who asked for a total of ZERO changes.

During his sojourn on Earth, the man from Mars at one human head, all the automobiles, some bars, then switched to an all-guitar diet. What does this tell us about Martian physiology?

Remember, the flu vaccine is a form of defense, not a form of war.

Along the path, you come across two guards: one always tells the truth, the other always lies. You quickly realize that the security department's diversity requirements were very poorly written.

I won't claim that no one cares about this things, but I want to write: - A sequel to the original The Fugitive series - Veruca Salt. Not the rest of the Wonkaverse, just the grown up Veruca Salt. Is that too much to ask? - Little Fuzzy

It's just a mid-credit shot of Groot saying "I'll be Groot in Avengers Doomsday!"

The Onion is again claiming to have bought out the InfoWars site. Don't go there yet, it still has Alex Jones content. Still, this kind of thing makes me proud to be an Onion subscriber.

Just watched Goodrich, a light drama in which Michael Keaton is a 60 year old art gallery owner whose wife goes to rehab, leaving him to take care of their 9 year old twin children. Grossed $1.8mil at the box office. I wonder how well it'd've done if they got the rights to call it Mr. Mom 2.

Just watched the first episode of The Big Bang Theory, so now I'm obsessed with the fact that a copy of Conduct Unbecoming is on their bookshelves. I have trouble seeing either Sheldon or Leonard having this in their reading. (I only own a copy because it was at the 99 Cents Only store.)

“Honey, a vibrator will get it done in half the time, but it ain’t gonna order a pizza after.”

There was this moment in line at target 16 years ago. Me in literally a tweed jacket with elbow patches, next guy in a motorcycle gang jacket fully looking the part... but we were both carrying babies, and there was such an air of brotherhood. And babies? They're universal. Every culture has 'em.

Will I find an excuse to drag this out twice a year? Yes, yes I will.

They lose, not every time, but often. There has been damage done and there will be more and it will weigh particularly heavy on young trans folks. Acknowledging that does not mean not holding on to hope. Better times can be seen in the distance.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

I would be so tempted to immediately retire with the best lifetime record in the history of baseball.

I’ve got a ticket that I won’t be able to use (@$#€ Covid) for the Dead Pilot Society recording at the Elysian on Sunday. Any L.A. area friend want to see pro actors read unproduced sitcom pilot scripts? I always have a good time!

I like yodeling.

Post a Superman.

I am just two episodes into DTF St Louis, which is apparently set in a timeline where lawyers have yet to be invented.

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is good silly… and because it is grounded in silly, it doesn’t get mired in some default humor. Yes, it has a man, his ex-wife, and his much younger fiancée, but they get along. It’s not grounded in hatred and jealousy. That’s a plus.

Why yes, AI-powered spammers. You’ve identified exactly the problem we comics publishers have: not finding enough people who want to create comics. Well, that, and where to stuff these piles of gold bars we have laying around.

The Secretary of White Male Superiority doing an antisemitism? I am shocked, I tells ya, shocked!

ASK ME ANYTHING! Covid has me too tired to do any of the work I should be doing, so hey, let's make it my first AMA. Comics, publishing, Peanuts, just being Nat... what you got for me?

Ezekiel 25:17

“Here, Mr. President, let us show you the special storage space we are making just for Amontillado…”

“When the man in the back says ‘everyone attack,’ we shall be prepared.”

Made it to… but, alas, not through.. 2026 before getting COVID. A false negative test early on means I’ve missed the paxlovid window. And whatever protection having had my boosters offered, I’ve got. Within that context, I’m doing relatively fine.

You cannot tell what will last in culture. If you were to travel back to 1976 and tell the 18 year olds of the day that the 18 year olds in 2026 won't know who the Fonz was, what a Fembot or a Meathead was, they might believe you. But if you told them that many would know of Columbo? No way.

One of the joys of editing Wikipedia regularly is that sometimes you get to do the edit that reflects that justice has occured. I've been editing John Eastman's page since 2011. Even got to be the one to explain to him why some of the edits he was requesting to his article weren't going to happen.

A quick reminder to those Pope-should-stay-out-of-politics people that the Pope is not just the head of a religion. He is also the ruler of a nation (admittedly, a small one as such things go.)

Less than 24 hours to go on this deal, so if you've been taking time to think about it, time to stop thinking! Offer good in the US, not in the UK. I don't know about Canada, Land of Mystery.

Joe Biden is the only person to have been mentioned in Peanuts and then gone on to be US President. He'll likely remain the only one... but theoretically that could change, as there are natural-born Americans mentioned in the strip who are still alive. President Billie Jean King, anyone?

The problem with my passion parties wasn’t that I forgot to invite the sin babes, but that I invited the wrong ones, usually Sloth and Avarice.

I retain my belief that the prequel to Ocean's Eleven should be Ocean's Seven, and that it should be so named because it's set at Danny Ocean's seventh birthday party. We need a good kid heist movie.

At some point, I'll have to see if I still have the pitch one publisher had me create for a Bad Dudes vs. Dragon Ninja comic book that, of course, never came to pass. Somehow, comics survived.

A shame to hear that we've lost Foolbert Sturgeon just as the existence of The New Adventures of Jesus seems so politically relevant. He moved the needle. I'm glad he was around.

You say that they aren’t really making America great again, but Del Taco just brought back pogs!