True, true. Though Dan’s clear preference for twinks perhaps suggests maybe we’d all do well to scooch over to his more direct pipeline from The Stranger for the nubile young lads of his fancy.

It may be a betrayal of wokeness credentials and maybe even downright pollyanna, but I’m still inclined to appreciate that social media’s allowed us to more clearly assess and confront the extent of hidden prejudice, fairweather progressivism in our communities, and within ourselves.

I’ll be the big man and admit to having seen Kathy Griffin live.

The real fun (where available) is in scooching back into commenting histories and feeds to see just how respectful they were of the office of the President between 2009 and 2016.

Minus one to the new AV Club, Dan’s a hot daddy and can get it.

I forget the location of the semi-recent interview with Dan, where he points out the vast array of information on the Intertubes makes available the basic info he used to field questions about: “What’s a cockring?”, “Is it weird if my ___ emits this odor?”

Cucumber’s been enjoying a lateral move in popularity into bridging the divide between sweet and savory, it seems to me mostly thanks to the mixologists. Lime-cucumber-mint gimlet, with one of the lovely, very herbal gins that’ve come to market lately? Yes, please.

For all the years working at the medical center, I just knew every time I wound up behind any nurse in scrubs with like - teddy bears and rainbows and shit - I’d be waiting for her to read out an order list for her entire goddamn wing.

Well, we see some measure of the opposite direction, right?

You know it’s fantasy because the worst legacy of Targaryen inbreeding is improbably perfect hair.

I mean, I suppose Arya had a moment or two at Harrenhal that weren’t utterly boneheaded.

I’m reminded of the collective surprise that The Great Wall co-production cast Matt Damon at the insistence of the Chinese co-producers. Nipped that whitewashing thinkpiece right in the bud there.

Added evidence: Robb getting himself and Cat killed, Rickon’s pee-wee football-grade evasive pattern, Sansa anywhere in the first two-to-three seasons...

Jeebus knows I’m neither light nor sparing with the schadenfreude when I feel it’s deserved. But certainly, the millions affected by this, and the thousands therein displaced are definitely not deserving of an inch of it.

1) Thanks for the kind reply. I expect the most evocative part of the piece for me was how very much ingrained that visceral sense memory is.

I don’t think it argues against your point so much, as qualifies it - but looking at the highest grossing films in China (link), of the 24 American entries on the top 50 list, only four aren’t reboots or sequels: Zootopia, Warcraft, Avatar, and Skiptrace. That doesn’t seem to the case with their home-grown cinema on…

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Oh, most definitely - with every significant natural disaster that comes through, there’s at least some fraction of locals and people from far away who feel the need to snark “Well, that’s what you get for living there”, with little consideration of the natural hazards in their own backyard.

This is a lovely, tightly-written, well-honed piece, Kyle. Good job, internet.