You got me singing
Even though the world is gone
You got me thinking
I'd like to carry on

Thanks, I hope so.

I don't think there's anyone better than Cohen for reflection on one's own self-worth, because so much of what he wrote was about coming to terms with imperfection, about loving when you have the opportunity to love and mourning when that opportunity passes, and about being gracious in the face of intolerable and…

Like many Canadians I grew up with him. Famous Blue Raincoat (the Warnes album) in particular was a soundtrack to my childhood, and The Future a little later.

"Some people are graced with a flow. Some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those."

"Goof" can be a very serious insult in prison environments. Or… yup, just looked it up, apparently that's a Canadian thing. Is Mick Canadian?

Well nobody's right all the time.

Leonard is best known for his proximity to the darkness, but if there's any lesson he'd tell us to take from him it's that there's nothing pure in the world: there's joy in every sadness, hope in every horror, a kindness for every cruelty. Yesterday was bad, today was bad, tomorrow will be bad, and the next few years…

Nah, it's fine, Snyder isn't in the right weight category to be able to leave even a smudge on Cohen's legacy.

I like the idea of Oliver carefully packing bags and prioritizing, like, these are his second most comfortable pants so they should probably be in the bag at city hall that he uses all the time, plenty of greasepaint but eyeshadow's running low, better pick some more up at the drug store on the way to check the bag…

Costumed heroes are so great. The team had to assemble, gear up - including a lot of very tight leather pants - and do each others' makeup, and they STILL got to the mob/shooting scene well before the police. I'd probably waste twenty minutes just staring into a mirror trying to tell if my mask was even.

Good, it's been the highlight of the CW for me this season.

I've got a bunch of weird scars and people rarely ask about them even when it's obvious that they've noticed.

Be careful, in my experience Americans are alarmed by ketchup chips, and we just got an object lesson in what can happen when Americans are alarmed.

Jury's still out on how much effect the gutting of the Voting Rights Act had on that, mind you.

I hope you're right but it's a problem that he's got a full mandate, house, senate and a supreme court vacancy just sitting right there. That might not've happened with a hypothetical 2020 GOP president.Things might get better but the next few years are going to be bad, what with the repeal of obamacare, random wars…

Also same. I'd probably be bummed except proportionately it's not really registering right now.