Turned out it was just a 70 minute sales pitch for Wu Tang Financial.

I think this is a silly trope. Like that dumb myth that people ran screaming out of movie theaters when they saw the moving train coming “at them.” It’s such a hacky joke, oh look at the rube from 1919 who is gobsmacked by our modern inventions. There is no way dude would have been blown away by a fucking escalator.…

She did in fact listen to the album. 

i count it.

Point of fact: by 1919, escalators were commonplace in department stores across the country, starting with Macy’s in 1902.

I was in Las Vegas once and I experienced watching an entire family being baffled on how to use an escalator. That was around 2010

Well, that escalatored quickly.

I live in a large city, but our subway isn’t that deep underground. Even i was like, “Jesus, when do these escalators ever END?” when I visited DC.

A lot of early escalators were more like conveyor belts, but as a pilot and international spy, I’m pretty sure Steve would have been to a major department store like Gimbel’s Philadelphia, Macy’s, Harrod’s, or the New York and London Subway/Underground. The familiar “comb” design didn’t come into use until the 20s,…

I have a weird phobia of only very long escalators; it’s something about how steep and tubelike they are. 95% of the time this isn’t a problem because most escalators aren’t long enough for this to be an issue. But I also live in the dmv, so every there’s always the Wheaton metro or some other steep shit lurking in…

Never mind that those early escalators loved munching on human flesh and bone...

It was just recently (befoire pandemic times) that I was at BWI. and saw an old dude from Central America terrified of the escalator, and his family was trying to gently coax him onto it.

I also like to think that Steve never had a chance to see an escalator in the 1900's due to that whole World War one thing he was busy with.

I have been on and around escalators my entire life, but man are those Metro ones looooong, and by association, steep...

I don't even think there's a single escalator in the entire state where I live. 

I do agree with this article. I realized the movie is flawed, although I’m still enjoying it tremendously.

It’s the Bechdel-Wallace test but half the women get erased from its title.

same with the bechdel test, which was always just kind of meant to be an ‘isn’t it interesting that ___’ pointing out exercise than an actual measurement of wokeness or feminism.

“Ignoring” isn’t really the word I’d use for the book. Honestly, I think modern eyes could do interesting things with Ma’s prejudices as compared with Laura’s childish view of things. The contrast is there already, but could be used more effectively. 

So, what Barsanti wants isn’t so much a remake of Little House on the Prairie as A Canticle for Liebowitz.