This sounds typical. I like my popstars in their swim lanes and making music. If you can’t bother to educate yourself about how people actually live when you are siloed behind a literal wall of money and have endless choices about how you want to live vs. the rest of the world and what they have to make due with...…

I mean, as long as she’s willing to foot the bill in caring for the welfare and safety of these animals who have no wild-setting survival skills whatsoever for however long they may live (which in some cases is as long as human beings)...

That may also be true but Sea World has a long, black mile history of total fuckery with animals not intended to ever be let out of a tank again. I get that its complicated but rehab for some animals doesn’t undermine the whole Blackfish problem and that’s a huge problem.

While this doesn’t maybe rise to the occassion of Gawker’s choice to publish material and names that led to their destruction; it’s also not somehow not in the neighborhood of that when it comes to maybe deciding to maybe not write this article.

I’m not a fan in general of her music and find her as an artist pretty fucking annoying. As a human being, she has a right to privacy over something like this and it annoys me that Jez jumped on the bandwagon to trample that privacy for some reason. I’m sure there’s a reason but I can’t really come up with how it’s a…

I’d be in the same boat as you. I’m for sure not making some obscene tech salary. But I’m also fairly pragmatic that the way things are going here are beyond sustainable and middle income workers mid-descent into the working poor. The difference between the actual working poor and us is on paper we can’t seek any sort…

Yeah, I’m aware. I’m speaking of the taxation methods available to us which are really very few. There’s more conversation around finally just getting a state income tax and ditching the sales tax ala Oregon but I don’t know how realistic this is going to be.

Yeah, the only good thing that has happened in recent memory is that the city council spiked Amazon’s ability to get sweetheart rental details with the luxury techbro palaces they’re building. They pay full freight for 600 sq ft of lipstick smeared on a pig’s ass like the rest of us. The difference is that they can…

I think we need to swallow our shit, do the necessary thing, and get with a state income tax. Our revenue streams otherwise are property taxes and pot sales (which we’ve also massively fucked up at a state-level because some of those sales are getting slushed to earmarked coffers that are uncomfortably general about…

I love Seattle, please don’t mistake. I chose to move here over other places in the country but at a time when it was way more affordable and the critical mass we’re facing on so many fronts wasn’t quite there but it was getting there.

Hi there. I live here.

That’s even worse, tbh.

I think part of it was that it insisted on staying with the canned studio audience format. It made it jankier and dissonant and harder to watch given that sitcoms as they exist have largely gotten away from that awful format.

Don’t dispair, Ashley. By 1990 Russia fucks off communism. They’ll see their kids again.

Right? I haaaaated FtWD when it first aired because the parents were total idiots and the teenagers just whinged their way through episodes. Now, however, its actually really good and I’m into it.

Not really. Fear The Walking Dead might be worth your time. It went from a show about 2 idiots and their annoying pouty teenagers to an actually respectable and interesting narrative. I haven’t watched this current season (I tend to DVR stack and then binge) so I’m hoping Morgan’s crossover introduction doesn’t ruin…

The chances of that are small as long as Roseanne herself remains attached to the whole thing. And chances are, she’s got it in her contract that as the titular character that the show can’t continue as a spin-off or as the IP without her involvement in it to some degree.

I mean sure, if by that you mean held her nose and took a paycheck by choice?

I think romantic v. ghastly is all a matter of life experience. I greatly enjoyed Saving Private Ryan when I was in my up-my-own ass 20s. The wholesale slaughter of young men on the Omaha Beach was just a dramatic rendition of what happens in the theater of war. I thought it was interesting, arty, a very careful…

Massage in water is a thing. It’s used in physiotherapy for people with mobility issues who cannot climb on to a massage table. There’s also a version of it called ‘Watsu’ that is offered at fancy spa places here and there.