I am chill. You ought to see me when I'm off my medication.

Not always. Pill overdoses can look like accidents. Did Heath Ledger commit suicide? Even the medical examiners weren't sure.

Nonsense. Without medications, plenty of people would be dead. Would you tell a diabetic not to take insulin? Should I not take a thyroid medication?

"Try smiling!"
"Go fuck yourself and smile with your head up your ass!"

Meds aren't for everyone, but they can help a lot of people. Be prepared for lots of trial and error, but also be prepared to feel better.

You're correct in part of that. In others, you're a cynical asshole. Why not go kill yourself?

Lots of creative types have deep depressions. Many creators also are withdrawn from the world. They sometimes live in their heads and so don't have support structures. It's sad that so many resort to suicide to relieve their pain and anxiety.

Anyone else old enough to remember "Future Cop" from the late '70s? They played it relatively straight, with a grumbling Ernie Borgnine and the other actor named Michael Shannon. "Holmes and Yoyo" with John Schuck played it for laughs. "Mann and Machine" played it for Yancy Butler's body. Now we have "Almost Human."

Fuck you down-voters. What are your phone numbers?

Maybe I'm a stuck-up sticky beak, but I loathe practical jokes and, even more, prank phone calls. I'm just not into 6th-grade humor.

For me, it just didn't hold up dramatically. The relationship between Nite Owl and The Silhouette rang horribly false. As written by Moore, Silhouette was a cold, arrogant woman without regard for the other crime fighters. I don't think Nite Owl would have fallen for her, as Cooke indicated. Also, Nite Owl killed…

Mmm … no. "Minutemen" was the best of the "Before Watchmen" project, but it was a mess.

Exactly. "I, Robot," based on the story, "The Trial of Adam Link."

Actually, it was an "Outer Limits" episode titled, "I, Robot." It was based on the short story, "The Trial of Adam Link," which was part of a series of stories about the robot Adam Link. One of the Binder brothers, both prolific sf writers of the '40s and '50s, wrote the Link stories, but I can't  recall which one.…

His headstone inscription will consist of changing bullet points every 24 hours.

Bucky, just to be clear, I'm pretty sure that's a Flugelhorn. I'm probably wrong, but I know it's not a French horn.

I think I sold my copy of the original paperback. And not for much, in those pre-eBay days.Those of you who haven't read it, aren't missing much.

As noted in another thread, Philip José Farmer wrote "Venus on the Halfshell," inspired by Vonnegut's one-paragraph "excerpt" from a Kilgore Trout novel. The novel was published with "Kilgore Trout" listed as the author. Vonnegut was, reportedly, not amused. Farmer also wrote other fan fiction stories, though in some…

The link to the review leads to a "not found" notice.

You lucky bastard. I would have loved to see Linda. She and the much-loved, late Kirsty MacColl are perhaps my favorite female vocalists.