I didn’t read it as an “Arab men buy women” joke. I read it as the Planeteers not actually giving a shit about the environment, it was just a front for making money off of Planetina, and they were going to sell the rings (and thus control over her) once that became the more profitable option. It seemed to me that the…

Yeah you missed something. This episode was about Morty and his mom. You finally mentioned Beth in your last stray observation but she’s the other main character in the a story. This was pretty straightforward story about a boy rushing into a relationship he’s not ready for, while his mom tries to warn him but…

A big thing that hasn’t aged well for me is the amount of male insecurity that’s all over those shows - while an MST3K episode can have a joke about trans women or gay panic that haven’t aged very well in the course of an hour and a half, you don’t have anything like Alice in Superjail or the hand banana episode of…

I’d settle for “extremely unoriginal”, but overvalued- definitely not. The dude has a brain for what will really be iconic, and that’s exactly who these tedious commissions need- it’s not like a tourist campaign really is going to be looking for the next Georgia O’Keeffe.

Their equivalent of Ma-Ti was Mor-Ty.

The main LA public library? It’s one of the great American public libraries, nearly on par with the NYPL, and the architecture of the building is worth seeing on its own even if you aren’t into books. And speaking of architecture, there’s lots of interesting buildings downtown as well like Union Station and the…

I’ll joke because Fairey always gets these extremely high profile jobs and always delivers something really middle of the road. The logo works, it’s fine, it’s retro but modern which will almost always please a client but it doesn’t matter because they’re just paying to say they hired Shepard Fairey.

You know, if you were really serious about attracting young people, I’d think surrounding the city with the heads of NIMBY Boomers and self-styled property investors on pikes would be real effective tactic.

Yeah, I was on Ambien for a while. I put on 30 lbs. from sleep eating. I sometimes remember flashes of what happened. One time, while sleep eating, I burned corn tortillas on an open flame gas stove. I’ve had phone conversations I don’t remember. I’ve found an open vodka bottle on the counter the next morning. I once…

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Ambien will absolutely make you do dumb shit. My personal highlight remains the morning I woke up to discover a confirmation email from Amazon, telling me the literal case of astronaut ice cream I’d ordered was on the way.

“The next morning, [Bautista] comes and he says, ‘Hey man, that text you sent last night.’ He goes, ‘You don’t remember? Bahahahaha’ and I was like what and he walks out.””

That’s all very interesting, if anecdotal, but doesn’t really address any of the points about why private golf courses are not particularly socially beneficial in the same way places like museums or public parks or even municipal courses are, or why they don’t make a particularly good use of the amount of space they…

Bautista would win by standing so still that he became invisible.

This is the part where I tell you that:

Recreation is a socially-beneficial use

Should we turn the Louvre into modestly-priced housing?

I think the water usage required is a more valid criticism, particularly in drought-prone places like California or South Africa.

I can appreciate your point of view if it’s your thing, and you are unable to enjoy it, then that’s sad. But the sheer acreage that golf courses take up, that could be put to more socially beneficial use, limits my sympathy a little. I’m also slightly biased having done some work for a couple of golf clubs, which…

Hey, bear. You ever tried the c’caine?