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Yeah, Bon Jovi has nothing to do with this article except for applying a lyric to the title.

Linklater's Austin is rapidly disappearing, though. To get even an inkling, it feels like you have to head south of the river or north of UT, as it's been swallowed up by the growing pains of giant corporatization and gentrification.

It reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Daniel Dennett: "There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."

Definitely, and from a very young age. It's hard not to see the thread run from his aunts instilling him with a fear of the outside world as a young boy, the racism of the time, and how both mutated him into someone who could not fathom the existence of black people.

Even with all his bullshit, few writers have had such a haunting quality with their words. Plus, his unique worldview: the universe isn't good or indifferent, it's actively evil, and will consume us and torture us, both physically, spiritually, and mentally, for all eternity.

Paranoia and racism, natch.

Most definitely. And god knows I can't think of another, better phrase. It just feels weird for me when white people use it. Can't explain.

This sucks, but we care.

I'm a bitch.

Yeah, it's a phrase I'm somewhat ambivalent about. I'm not quite sure of its genesis, or its original intent of usage (as a positive or a pejorative).

As a white, hetero male, I definitely can have a love-hate relationship with it at times.

Personally, I don't know if I could date someone, even casually, if they were seeing someone else. No shame if that's something people are cool with, just a personal thing (also, my anxiety).

It's not very…………subtle……

Ayatollah's Open Forum

DEES CARDS LIED.

I get the impression the showrunners like to use the in-show surrogate as their "Trojan horse" to sneak into these topics, a la Piper in OITNB, but when said surrogate is white, it's an very difficult needle to thread, where we're viewing something through their eyes about something happening to a subset of folks that…

As an occasional improv performer, the trailer was already hitting a little close to home and bumped this up to a must-see, not to mention the caliber of the cast. Heartening to read that it sounds like what I'd imagine.

God, I would've loved to have witnessed the vitriolic reaction to the original Funny Games by the starched shirts lining the aisles in Cannes that year.

I want a little snake oil pizzazz with my conspiracies!