oct 12 in idea barrages

Doctor Frankenstein clearly mistook the meaning of the team-building exercise.

When a comic book series seismically alters the status quo, I’m less interested in what’s new. more interested in seeing how they’ll explain retconning the changes away next time the classic version is needed for marketing a film. Undoing Hickman’s X-Men should be a HOOT.

A conversation with a British Star Wars slash-fic writer is always fraught because you never know how they mean “getting into a sticky Wicket”.

Here’s a way to mess with certain people: point out that there’s no difference between the non-gendered blurring of singular/collective pronouns with “they/them” and that of “y’all”.

Has the estate of Jimi Hendrix sold their endorsement to a chili brand yet? “Jimi Hendrix Voodoo Chili” seems a lock, plus then if you burp afterward you can be all “Voodoo Chili, Slight Return”.

I realize mob movies are one of my blindspots, I avoid them out of the disconnect between my partial Italian-ness & their portrayal. In north Tuscany where Grandpa’s from, they don’t mob up, they mine marble & get tourists drunk. I only ever even watched “Godfather” all the way through as I had to for a class, really.

How about: if you are so corrupt and so stupidly naked in your corruption, Las Vegas won’t even work with you, you don’t get to run for President. I think this is a fair very very low bar to have to clear.

Whoever came up the “Dear Xing” instead of “Deer Xing” sign was probably so nice that no one pointed out how lame it is.