Racism will never be eradicated. It might change labels at some point, but it will always be part of our tribalist DNA to create division. It’s like any illness that can’t be cured. The struggle is in the never-ending management of our collective instincts so we can function as a society and be kinder to each other.…

Symbols give people something to cling to that doesn’t require much thought. It’s a lazy option for performative belief. Which is why symbols are so easy to co-opt (ie, the US flag becoming a symbol of “the troops” and “freedom” rather than representing a complex governmental philosophy and the diverse collection of…

I’ve never been expected to bow to a circus animal. 

I grew up in Massachusetts, one of the last states to allow civilian flaggers at roadwork sites. However, even after they passed the law, the police union had so much stroke that they made it so flaggers had to be paid equivalent to cop wages ($44/hr vs $28/hr what the average civilian flagger makes nationwide), which…

Yeah, that’s in there. The book basically follows the lives of six people who ultimately became significant figures in the gay rights movement leading up to and in the aftermath of the Stonewall Riot. I’m currently in the mid-Sixties portion, where Mattachine has begun public action and the resulting schisms in the…

It’s the place the found the robot in Return to Oz, right?

Yes. That massive weight you feel leaving your shoulders is thanks to the realization that you don’t have to care about this shit anymore. It was fine when you were young and had no responsibilities to occupy your time, no taste to help you discern quality entertainment, and no self-confidence to give you the courage…

I’m currently reading Stonewall by Martin Duberman. In it, he talks about how early “homophile” organizations, such as the Mattachine Society, were initially VERY conservative in their membership and operations. They did not believe militancy would solve anything. They were primarily focused on how to best assimilate…

And friggin’ Squi didn’t bring his section like he said he would. Just like that time in college when Squi said he was going to bring the piss balloons to throw at the lesbian chicks at the Take Back the Night March and then he bailed and Brett and PJ were stuck standing there having to listen to those broads bitch…

I’m all in for more expansion and less explanation. It’s one thing I keep coming back to: I’m done with origin stories for things that don’t need origins. I’m there for adventures of Young Ha . I don’t need to know how Han got his last name or that specific blaster. Show me the spy mission to get the Death Star plans. …

This is what I’ve been doing and I was wondering if it’s actually effective/sanitary/etc.

Dude chased recklessly after a bunch of stormtroopers on the Death Star and right into an entire squad.

I’d bet they’ll go the Arrow “Five Years on an Island (which was really just two and then three spent traveling the world)” route. To be fair, there’s obvious dramatic potential in the question “What would it take for Obi Wan to forsake his sworn duty to watch over Luke and leave Tattooine?”

These weren’t even licensed. They didn’t come packed in boxes, had no decals. You were expected to just put them out on the shelf loose, sell ‘em cheap, and hope the kids didn’t notice. That vendor was SHADY.

My mom owned a gift store around that time and one of her vendors was always bringing in knock-offs and she’d give the samples to me and my siblings.. Mostly Cabbage Patch heads attached to cheap bodies. But we also got knock-off GoBots. And, let me tell ya, if you thought the regular GoBots were shitty . . . 

Movies were always about profit, but the Hollywood studios were originally setup in California so they could be far enough away from the NY money men that the financiers wouldn’t learn about anything they might object to until it was too late to do something about it. Creative freedom thanks to physical distance. I…

Ooh, I hope they name one after that general who caught Rambo trying to free POWs in Vietnam. Because if that guy hadn’t caught Rambo, then Rambo wouldn’t have gotten the chance to radio Murdock and tell him that he was coming for him. What a great moment for America!

In the interest of actual “political correctness“:

My favorite was one that referred to NASCAR as “the mayonnaise races.” I lost my shit. 😂

Well, I tend to like films that . . . Wait a minute! I’m not falling for that one again!