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But the great thing is, Rush's actual personal opinions are such a perfect combination of loathsome and absurd, you don't NEED to get into the sordid stuff.
I mean, you COULD use the fact that he's been married 4 times, yet has no children even though he clearly has no idea how contraception works as a way of

the CLOSE ENCOUNTERS score doesn't get as much love as it deserves.

There's a place in the building I work at called "The Map Room"; I can't go in it without hearing the music of the same name from the RAIDERS soundtrack.

Don't underestimate Tim Minnear's influence on FIREFLY.

Ammy Fiz-Rannazzisi-Ansari? ok, THAT's a bit much.

and vice-versa!

my father he was orange and my mother she was green

well played.

There is NO WAY Rupert Murdoch is an afficianado of the sweet sounds of Motown.

She was voiced by Kristen Wiig, if that helps you imagine what she was like.

FUN FACT: Roy Crane's rival Milt Caniff, who was every bit as gung ho, found himself under investigation by the US Govt. when a WW2 storyline in his strip TERRY AND THE PIRATES bore an unusually high degree of similarity to an actual top secret military operation going on at the time- right down to the same codename,

(and, of course, Lansdale wrote both BUBBA-HO-TEP and COLD IN JULY, which were made into pretty dern good movies!)

If you're into comics, there's a collection out of the JONAH HEX stories he did with artist Tim Truman. (trust me, light-years better than that awful movie. )

DEADMAN'S ROAD is the most relevant; it's a collection of his horror/westerns.

You need to go read some Joe R. Lansdale.

Well, he's so good at darkness BECAUSE he can also do light.
That's what casts the shadows.

RISE OF JUST US

Oh sure.
Although his work is rarely COMPLETELY humorless; there's always throwaway bits like Constantine looking at a pile of corpses at a bus stop and wondering if there's been a re-route.

Sadly, you can't surgically remove the national debt.