I dunno I can't decide if Toy Story 3 being so amazing means I owe them this one, or if it being so amazing means this one is the most abysmal of blasphemies.

All Woody and Buzz still desperately trying to maneuver the letter from the Friar into the mausoleum as the dagger clangs to the floor and a blood slicked still-warm feminine hand intertwines itself into Andy's lifeless grasp.

Who is exactly as bitchy as I think? Also, more of a writer?

Yes, yes, your positions on chaos v law are abundantly clear.

Of all the stories of war, injustice, and persecution my grandparent's generation told, Spanish Flu was the worst followed closely by polio related stuff.

Presumably from a room that doesn't have Christopher Guest in it.

I know a place that was getting hammered because - when they started in the 80s - pizza was comparatively dear and no one bought wine. Now they struggle desperately to keep wine prices low and pizza prices high.

It's almost as though low grade prohibition style legal arrangements could, potentially, work in the favor of cunning alcohol distributors.

Il Papa?

The field trip's tour bus is gonna straight up leave you at Arkham.

(slams door in response to screen slap)

God, I love the 'take our country back' trope.

Here's the thing - you would be visiting a city that had been held hostage by an apparently nuclear armed terrorist force and only eaten food supplied to said force for said city by our government for a period of time that, mysteriously, no one can quite determine but may have been close to a year.

I dunno, Scarlet Fever is also a classic.

Aren't we all?

I also suspect that much of it is just that the music industry has gone to the well a few too many times on advocacy/activism in general.

Monolith Music, the Hardest karaoke track or the Best?
eeeeeeeeeeeAAAAeeeeeeeeeeeeeAAAAeeeeeeeAAAAAeeeeEEEEE!

Queue shortest Batman: tas episode ever:

Yeah, but there's still something else going on there. If I allow that the gender was coded for male, which you can totally sell based on the names alone, then it's for a romantic dude who cleans for a living and watches musicals. While Eve-A is a lady who's first response to a distraction from her job is to fire…

I certainly think there can be other strategies, but I also think that sometimes you can just go out and own the weird in, say, the way Achewood did once the author got brave enough to try - even if I can think of no way that piece can even pass the Bechdel test just from a structural perspective.