It gets all three networks, and PBS!

I would assume that there are two primary factors at work: cost of living, and economic opportunity. California may be an economic powerhouse, but if you can buy a suburban house in SC for a fraction of its CA equivalent, then that would be a factor. If you’re living in Maine, even if houses are cheap, you might want to go somewhere where more things are happening. It’s not necessarily a matter of people wanting to live in more conservative areas; if conservative policies demolished the local economy and ruined home values, that would mean more cheap real estate that people can afford, regardless of how they feel about the politics of the area.

Even more hilarious if you have a papillion.

One of their most beloved erotic cartoonists is Tom of Holland.

JJJ publishes them in an attempt to ruin Spider-Man’s public image. The public instead is desperately thirsty for the spider-bod. Sales of the Bugle go through the roof. JJJ is consumed by the conflict between his hate boner for Spider-Man and his capitalism boner for selling more issues of the Bugle.

Hear me out:

Not sure which one, but it’s from The Samurai Trilogy.

Slowly decaying, shriveling, succumbing to the inevitable ravages of entropy that will ultimately reduce me to an undifferentiated pile of organic mess, no matter what means I or anyone else tries to employ to slow the descent.

Suppose that, at a given moment, a certain number of people are engaged in the manufacture of pins. They make as many pins as the world needs, working (say) eight hours a day. Someone makes an invention by which the same number of men can make twice as many pins as before. But the world does not need twice as many pins: pins are already so cheap that hardly any more will be bought at a lower price. In a sensible world, everybody concerned in the manufacture of pins would take to working four hours instead of eight, and everything else would go on as before. But in the actual world this would be thought demoralizing. The men still work eight hours, there are too many pins, some employers go bankrupt, and half the men previously concerned in making pins are thrown out of work. There is, in the end, just as much leisure as on the other plan, but half the men are totally idle while half are still overworked. In this way, it is insured that the unavoidable leisure shall cause misery all round instead of being a universal source of happiness. Can anything more insane be imagined?

–Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

There’s also the thread of dumping on a person for liking something because it is popular. “Boo! Basic opinion! You should like the weird niche stuff that I like because I fit into that extremely narrow niche!”

And I applaud the weird shit that isn’t for everyone, I think that’s where some of the stuff I love the most comes from, but sometimes there’s a very good reason that something is already widely beloved.

dive deeply into the Oedipal aspect

keep it hard R

really f***ing with people’s heads

demented art-deco aesthetic

A Cure For Wellness was 2016. Verbinsky definitely brought some of his notes from BioShock with him.

I wonder if this was before or after A Cure For Wellness, because there’s a fair amount of overlap between ACFW and BioShock.

The Creator would appear as endowed with a passion for stars, on the one hand, and for beetles big anime titties on the other.

—J. B. S. Haldane

I’m convinced that most of Hades would work just fine on the PS1. You would lose most of the sexy vocal work, though, and that’d be a shame.

I love the idea that they’re having this conversation with Stormbreaker buried in Thanos’ chest.

Honestly, there are some people who shit-talk their exes so much that I worry a little bit.

I have a pretty significant ex, and it certainly took some introspection and painful internal work, but I eventually was able to hang out with them again and still really value their friendship; I even invited them to my wedding, and attended theirs in kind.

As I saw it, this person was my best friend for the majority of six years together, and I didn’t want to totally discard that part of myself that had that friendship, even if the romantic relationship didn’t ultimately work out.

Sturgeon’s Law is always in effect.