Well, in this century, videos can be watched in exactly the same screens and devices as pictures, so if vertical pictures are OK, then so are videos; manufactured outrage notwithstanding.

No, Dick isn't "a terrible writer": The Man in the High Castle alone suffices to explode that notion. He may be difficult to read, but then, so are Pynchon and Wolfe. Difficulty of reading is orthogonal to quality.

It pretty much exists, and it's awesome: check out Triptych by Chronic Logic.

Outland, surely.

Exactly. If anything, it's an improvement on that bit of daftery from the comics.

Uh-oh.

I'm increasingly convinced PETA is a false flag operation by the meat industry...

Poe's Law in action.

I'd really like to hear your definition of "hardcore left"...

Wow; must be spinning crazy fast.

"...there is an attraction, a special charm in the colossal to which ordinary theories of art do not apply." — Gustave Eiffel

Did you conveniently leave out "his"?

That makes sense. Not many rules, but with a lot of exceptions.

Yup. Coincidentally, the same five vowel sounds as Spanish.

That that is is that that that that is not is not.

I know it's one of the most difficult languages to learn

Man, wouldn't have liked to be some Assyrian or Babylonian six thousand years ago and have to tiptoe my way around these things at the beach...

That's the thing, where you have genetics, mutation, and environmental pressures, evolution is *inevitable*. If you don't believe in evolution you are basically saying that God interferes every single day to stop it.

Where is Saxton Hale when we need him... :(

My point stands.