Holy shit I've read Nine Stories several times and I just now got that.

Shades of Wall-E.

I've seen the ad dozens of times and I just now got the joke.

I'm not much of a coaster guy, but I love the Rock N Roller Coaster. So smooth and disorienting (in a good way; I don't get squeamish if I don't know I'm upside down).

My Catholic school had a playground, but it was a tiny little thing with two swings and a 4ft slide. We graduated to the parking lot at the ripe old age of 2nd grade.

Is that beer in Jambalaya though? The fuck?

Where in Iowa? I hear there's a lot of activity in downtown Des Monies but there's only like three pokestops and a gym within walking distance to my place in Ankeny. Uhh, not that I'm playing or anything.

A lot of the cities I made actually had a balanced budget after a few years. But I don't know if they would've made it that far without blowing a few million on infrastructure to start out with.

I used to play a ton of SimCity 4, basically only cheated for unlimited money. I actually played it pretty straight, I genuinely liked seeing the city grow on its own. But I also liked starting with an elaborate road and monorail system, huge custom parks, big custom high school campuses, etc and filling it in from…

I've been thinking a lot about that lately. People who think they have the right to be armed against their own government sure do love authority figures when those authority figures have the same biases as they do.

I'm not racist, I'm colorblind! People that acknowledge that race is a thing and that racism is still very real are the racist ones!

I was born in 1990 and still don't even feel like a "millennial" because technology and culture changes so quickly. I grew up on prime Nick and still remember using dial-up.

I didn't even know it was really a thing I until now, but I'm already retroactively annoyed by it.

As someone who didn't really grow up watching sports, I've gotten into them a lot more just because it's just really good, really deep, reality TV. You couldn't write a story as good as LeBron's last 6-7 years.

It's amazing how much money you can make when your audience is baby boomers. Even touring tribute artists can make a pretty good living if you appeal to the beer-buying midwestern casino crowd.

I'm actually pretty okay with directions, but thank goodness I have Google Maps to rescue from my moments of hubris.

I don't even know if Blimpie's was ever in my area during its first life, but my little bedroom suburb suddenly has two brand new stores.

I keep trying to get back into it, but it's such a slow burn. There's a lot of cool shit on there, but just not as many hooks as Demon Days.

Yeah, the Pepper's are great if you completely ignore Keidis or any song with a generic slap bass riff. John is really really good.

Gun control is one of those things that I'm still on the fence about as just an issue of personal liberty, but yeah, gun enthusiasts are fucking weird.