I once slept out for concert tickets (back when that was a thing) behind a bunch of carnie folk who'd been paid by a broker. They'd been in line for 48 hours, wearing the same clothes and spent a good bit of the money they'd been paid on 40 ounce bottles of St. Ides Special Brew. They spent the entire night…

We should be so lucky.

Oh God, it's so hard when people like your art and want more of it.

"A circus full of whimsey and wonder."
"Oh, yeah, that's way better than fun and excitement."

May the odds be ever in our favor.

Are they the ones with the Wolf Brothers acrobats?

My brother knew a clown, he was a rugby connection. Dude used to get piss-ass drunk and then juggle fire while naked. He was spectacular to hang out with at parties.

I feel the same way about SeaWorld. Except it's still inhumane to keep those huge whales in those little pools.

Growing up, we had SEPTA and Conrail tracks running through our backyard (technically, our property abutted the right-of-way, but that sounds less dramatic). When I was three, the circus train went by. Figure, this was 1981 so they still had the cage cars and since they were going about 5 miles an hour, you could…

Open up a preserve and then let them loose when the country tries to shut you down? That's how we handle it in NJ.

Yeah, exactly. TV.

He was still in Eagle Point, I think. Or close by, as it was post lynching and pre-Chicago. Anyway, it's an 8 hour drive from Eagle Point to Cairo (I looked it up, no practical experience there).

Well, if you consider that "imbued with the essence of the god" basically means ejaculated in/upon and that most non-Christian faiths weren't so squeamish about sex, then yes.

That, and Egyptian mythology is some of the oldest mythology we're taught (who doesn't learn about Bast and Ibis at some point in their formal education?), chronologically. It predates Christian religion, the Romans, the Vikings, the Celts, etc.

Yeah, I think you missed something.

Betty Gilpin has been gold in every scene she's been in. Her drunken crazy graveside encounter with Shadow was also fantastic.

Say "nevermore".
"Fuck you."

"n some ways, I wonder if the transition to TV needed to be a time period piece set in the time of the original book's release. All attempts to update it to now, even though its but a decade or so ahead, work against the fiction of the story itself."

Which is why I find the artichoke much more appropriate.

Yeah, I have a hard time being mad at Fuller & Co. I think the adaption has done more to update the characters (considering it's been 16-17 years since the novel was written) for our modern times than for the sake of making "cool" television, like the adapters of The Magicians have done.