Some days I feel like the bulk of SC's history can be summed up by that Thurmond statue, and most especially by the addendum of "Essie Mae Washington" to the plinth, in a different chiseled hand. No wonder our politics are backwards, when our representatives* file past the rogues' gallery on the way into work.

Never, to my knowledge—but I've been known to give it the double-deuce when I'm crossing the grounds. We just got the Confederate flag down; Tillman's next, with any luck.

Yeah, any quote out of his mouth would be enough to consign him to a thousand years in hell, but I think I know which one you're talking about. He was a villain to the extent that you couldn't pass him off as fiction, and South Carolina has never fully recovered from his rhetoric and governance, even though the…

Upvoted for dark horse (and personal hobbyhorse) pick for "time travel assassination." Fuck Ben Tillman.

Jesus, get the kid a keyrazorblade, am I right?*

I love the interludes—they make it clear how much King as a writer identifies with Hanlon, and they're both able to geek out on the research.

Country Roland is going to kick ass, you just wait.

It was pretty fabulous. But yeah: doesn't exactly inspire fear and awe.

He looks like Lorenzo Lamas.

So, Thundarr.

More now than ever, really.

Truckers are the blood in the veins in the body of America.

I was watching it with a big grin the whole time. "Daniel Radcliffe is a farting boner corpse!" "Sold." "It's also a surprisingly thoughtful explication of societal shame, the difficulty of being thinking meat, and the pressures of conformity." "…double sold?"

Especially ironic because it was, in many ways, a film about the toxicity of shame itself.

The soundtrack is fantastic—such a rich and melancholy soundscape—and went really underrecognized as an album.

"This is about a girl—" *plays "War Pigs" on Ibanez acoustic*

HAM ANTHRAX VECTOR

On the other hand, women did not tend to appreciate my interpretation, "Your Body is a Meatshell that Houses Consciousness and Not the Sum Totality of Your Value, Which is Fine, We're All Just Ham Golems Running Around Meaninglessly, Thank You, Fucking Entropy."

Inscrutable!

Pro tip: don't look in the trunk.