not sure who first said it, but: "I'll believe corporations are people when State of Texas executes one"

fuck 'em both. Freebirds is cheaper and tastier.

i believe it has. the place is called europe. i was in a recent argument with a friend in london who didn't believe the US even had a minimum wage, since tipping was so required at all restaurants. i explained we did in fact have a min wage, it was just far, far behind inflation and didn't apply to servers. they were…

better or worse than machete order?

look for a local fabric shop. they will likely be able to point you to someone who can/will make clothes for you, but the better they are made the more you can expect to pay. At least you get to pick your fabrics, though. Can be worth it.

yes. hardly anyone I know realizes this. Now I take nearly everything I buy to a tailor and have it fitted. Easily doubles the value of my relatively cheap wardrobe while only adding marginal cost.

"even while that mission would only cost another two billion dollars—all of it to be spent in the country's economy, not sent to space in bag"

well put.

i don't generally remember my dreams very well, so i wake up with vague emotional sense of the dream but no plotline...but I'd say 20% of my dreams I wake up having wept heavily. doesn't always feel sad, exactly, just cathartic and tiring.

i've also been told I sleep with my fists balled up if i'm stressed and I hav a…

I've known a few people who have had this dream. It always seemed to be a guilt/stress dream where they were either keeping a serious secret or, in 2 friends, were alcoholics with significant guilt about their addiction.

Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia. Second chances all around :)

Somwhere in Time

God, I detest Aeryn Sun. I still wish he'd gotten together with the PK Tech Girl in season 1 and pushed that obnoxious space-aussie out an airlock.

yes.

agreed. "cell shading as cartoony" certainly explains why all the good batman comics are done with photography, not drawings :) I would enjoy the crud out of a game that looked like this.

i think this may be my favorite thing i've read on io9. wonderful stuff.

Sweet Tooth is one of my favorite things in recent years, and Lemire is pretty much the whole reason I'm reading New 52. His Animal Man run is great.

I read that people nearby said the parents were satanists who ate cats.

the awesome track....i spend every day of every summer on an ozone action alert because of traffic, so of course we built a extra, circular loop of cars to watch for fun.