They used to cancel comic book titles if they sold less than 100,000
copies a month. The last time I paid any attention to comic book sales
people were bragging because the Batman comic Grant Morrison was writing
sold about 80,000 copies a month. "Good" sales for a DC title at the time were
around 50,000-60,000…

I have boxes full of DC comics I don't want any more and nobody else would probably want them either because they haven't been in continuity since 2002. I occasionally regret not unloading them for whatever I could get on eBay back in the day and that usually makes me mad at Dan DiDio and Geoff Johns for everything…

This. If Fox News had done a better job during the primaries instead of giving Trump tons of free publicity and sort of ignoring everyone else except for Cruz, Cruz or Rubio probably would have gotten the nomination.

Sin taxes are extra fees on things such as cigarettes or alcohol. So, I think most states would allow it. Exceptions would be made by the state of grace and the state of redemption.

I got into Top Gear mostly because I was running out of things to watch and Comcast used to have a huge amount of episodes available On Demand. I'm not a car guy. I ended up becoming more of a car guy after getting into the show mostly because of the shenanigans and becoming a huge fan of James May.

Meh. He's just pissed because Ernie Hudson never got to be the star in the reasonably priced car.

They would be great, but they would need to work on their driving. Their lap times in the reasonably priced cars were terrible.

I ended up liking that one well enough, but yeah… All the "comedy relief" provided by the new Lost Boys and whimsical bits were totally different from the movie I expected to see.

Apparently, Dustin Hoffman is one of those people who can't say Mamet dialogue. I had to turn off American Buffalo after about fifteen minutes because of the repetition. The repetition? The repetition. The… repetition… The. Repetition. Repetition… The repetition.

Melissa Scott, the SF and fantasy author who used a similar concept in her novel Dreamships, angrily tweets out Spike Lee's home phone number.

They shot blue lasers. G.I. Joe weapons fired red ones.

Nathan Rabin sometimes get mentioned as the creator of that term. I like the idea of him never being mentioned on the Internet ever again, so I would like a copy of your newsletter.

When I still watched the show, I thought of Nick as David Krumholtz's non-union equivalent. Pretty much every time I see Johnson in something, I think Krumholtz would have played the role better.

It is too bad that didn't happen during the primaries. If the cable news stations hadn't given Trump so much free publicity, someone who actually deserved the nomination might have gotten it.

I lived in a small town in Idaho just long enough to get sick of everyone whining about property taxes that seemed low to people who moved there from other states such as California. And sick of Idaho natives complaining about the carpetbaggers from California somehow making their taxes go up.

In other news, water is wet in its liquid form and the sky is often blue.

Well… I do occasionally type "word" instead of seconded or THIS or some other way of showing I agree with somebody. That's about the only thing I do sort of ironically.

Word. I miss the days when I had more than one chance each year to watch It's a Wonderful Life and every version of Miracle on 34th Street got rerun several times each December, giving me at least two or three chances to catch the good one with Maureen O'Hara. And the good Rankin Bass stuff wasn't all burned off in…

Well, Comcast in their infinite wisdom made Spike TV a channel you have to pay extra for and dropped it from my cable package. So, since it doesn't make sense to pay extra for reruns of Cops or marathons of that Lip Sync Battle show I haven't been able to watch episodes 4-6 when they would decide to show them again. …

I'm not much of a country fan either. I haven't ever listened to Dwight Yoakum on purpose.