oct 11 in idea barrages

They are maximizing the monetization of your fandom by weaponizing it against you, flipping your head canon around, pulling the cord and watching you explode into a chunky salsa of word of mouth push marketing savings. You are not the unpaid PR staff to your nostalgia. Fanboy, instead be a fan of thyself.

It was all a big misunderstanding, the Devil just wants our soles. Cloven hooves are hell on human style shoes, doncha know.

The realization that a sizable chunk of the exercise VHS market was just fetish movies sold hiding in plain sight.

The idea that the Marvel multiverse, all superhero universes, are mutants themselves, subclusters within the omniverse that evolved superhuman and cosmic forces as antibodies to allow them to survive, reboot, slide timelines to protect themselves from The End.

Business, small enough, fettered enough by regulation, is not the problem. Business small enough to innovate and be responsible to its community can be a blessing. It’s when it metastasizes into monopoly, olgarachy, the corruption and stagnation of generational wealth, that’s what kills. Literally.

Strategically, I get it. While Trump should be in jail for violating The Logan Act years now, clustering the impeachment closer to the election’s drumbeat to synergize with it even if nothing comes of it, I understand it as cold calculus. You may not like Pelosi’s cynical pragmatism but you can’t discount her intellect.

My long-standing tradition of guessing FDR when I don’t know a trivia question about a “sitting president” as a very dark joke… finally paid off for Team Discovery Channel tonight!

She makes her delicious flatbreads in a direct organized fashion, she’s naan-linear like that.