I used to be a local-area reporter for a short time, and I spent a lot of time with cops. I never met a single one who didn’t think weed busts were a waste of their time. The only value to them was occasionally they could use it to shitcan a domestic abuser, and that was it.

And Ezra Miller Flash.

To be fair, most people who dream of being artists wind up in sales.

Oh, I Googled myself afterward, I believe you. I’m just amused at how thin the veneer of illegality has become.

Likewise. I’m a big fan of “John Henry” in particular myself.

Newman, I like pulling out “Rednecks”, “Little Criminals,” “Sail Away,” or especially “Sigmund Freud’s Impersonation of Albert Einstein In America.”

TMBG is like Randy Newman; everybody THINKS they know the musician because they’ve heard a few songs from a TV show or a movie, and then you whip out something like, in TMBG’s case, “Shadow Government” or “First Kiss.”

Jones is a talented filmmaker but JESUS those teeny little tusks on Paula Patton. She looks like a children’s movie character.

I spent two years as an RA, and I learned two things: 1) Stoners are intolerably smug about how much better behaved they are than drunks and 2) They are not actually any better behaved than drunks, just obnoxious in different ways.

Is it up to an ounce? That’s a bit surprising, I thought the standard set was “personal use.”

Nah, the people on the committee are stiffs. They want to see the tax numbers versus costs, so they can figure out where the money will go (probably Western MA). In MA, you can hold up to an eighth of an ounce and it’s treated the same as a parking ticket right now.

I’m fully aware and it’s completely ridiculous. Oculus won’t eat shit, they’ve been managing expectations hard, but everybody else? VR is the new smartwatch.

Yeah, that’s part of the problem. Oculus is holding a discreet, quiet party and then a dozen other companies show up in body paint honking vuvuzelas.

“a white supremacist’s wet dream of a player”

“The number of VR headsets research firm Superdata believes consumers will purchase this year. The company released that projection the day before Oculus announced a $599 launch price for Rift.”

Considering the diversity disaster area that is publishing, maybe people should pledge to buy from more diverse publishing companies instead.

“If one of you works from home for all or part of the time, then you’re golden—that person can step up and realize that the hour or so saved on not commuting can easily be reapplied to chores.”

To be fair to Oculus, they’ve never pretended they had the next iPhone. The hype, though, is out of their control.

The best analogy here is J.J. Abrams promised to take us to Sizzler, and then blew right the fuck by Sizzler and went to the Waffle House with the meth dealers in the parking lot. I love Star Trek, but objectively a lot of it is bland mediocrity at best. That’s all I wanted, give me some bland mediocrity. Instead…