This is the best blog post I have read all year. Phildickian also, fractured identities and online simulacra addiction. From stylized slurs on ‘Finta’ pages (and their ritualistic aftermath of human sacrifice) to a righteous vision of the social media Matrix to come, the Scanner Darkly. Thank you.

It is a nice, little story. It would make a good children’s book or anime for all ages with fitting illustration. I’m serious. I liked it and it was a smooth read with a wistful ending. Is it even genre? Bradburyan Memory Lane Fantasy with purring paper creatures fighting Obi-Wan. Anyway, cute, lightly folded…

You just do not discharge a lethal weapon on a hunch. I thought any justice league would heed this. Any country where police training encourages using lethal force on a hunch is an ass country. In non ass countries, lethal force-entrusted (!) officers know that they won’t get through with that lame “I thought he had /…

I know you guys in the U.S. do not believe in shooting to disable or disarm or even warning shots. In the U.S. police officers are trained to kill as first thing, like storm troopers. One to the head, two to the chest, as the saying goes, and “only followed his training”. But in Europe we have all those non-lethal…

It sure looks like a heavenly work of art.

I guess the dull snarky opinions are made to stir out the good lifehacker stuff in the comments section. Clueless, get it sourced by the crowd. That’s not a bad hack for a cheapo medium. I have no big stakes in cranberry sauce and only know it (as “jam”) as THE side dish for oven-baked Camembert. But I might try the…

I think only a public burning could really satisfy the righteous public outrage after those atrocities. We’re speaking of penises here, people. You know why it’s not allowed to show them on the silver screen or at the newsstand. They’re bad. CK is “a turd, a lowly abject turd” (and/or a S.C.U.M. field operative like…

Can someone me tell how this works, legally, the “cutting of ties” after “allegations”? All those people fired from jobs and productions after Twitter accusations. Most of them without a “It’s true” confession. Big list in the NYT today. Haven’t they all work contracts and the like? Can’t they sue? Or do they all have…

Poor Cross, feeling the need to soul pick and mental-situational reconstruction. If someone accuses me that I have said ching chong ching chong like many years ago or have farted in a menacingly or disrespectful way in his / her presence, I would not start “stalking” (Castaneda) those dusted and mostly fake memory…

Very cool girl reporter.

White Men Making TV shows. The reality TV show exposing the nihilistic angst hidden in the free open spaces of White People Renovating Houses.

“Sauna suffers from their own violence and crimes against each other.”

I am no Amurrikan living in a cave, I’m European. Those people that are naked in a sauna, have health insurance, and know drive-by shootings and school entrance weapon searches only from television. U.S. television. We are addicted to U.S. television.

Do not let them take “American” from you, Canadians! Amerigo Vespucci meant for you all to be Americans.

Maybe a glitch in society, someting with your name like in BRAZIL. When I recall the first message correctly (long ago, no net) it said largely to obey your mother otherwise your father would whup your ass. No such second memo maybe because we don’t have “races” around here. In class they told me such things wouldn’t…

The glorification of rage in American culture never ceases to amaze.

I actually had that exact idea for an alternate reality franchise with Europe enslaved and colonialized by African powers after the (more deadly) Black Death in the 14th century. There is no good stuff on this game-changing WHat-if timeline. You described it wonderfully, sir.
But my idea when I had it had the added…