I think it falsely implies her murder only matters because she once dated Carey.

Back when I started seeing a doctor for migraines*, he wanted me to get an MRI at some imaging lab. When I set up the appointment, they got my insurance info and told me I had to pay $X00 upfront (this was over a decade ago, I don’t remember the exact amount). Went in, paid them, actually had a rather pleasant…

Because we have a voting system that is gerrymandered to hell, reliant on a 200 year old electoral college mechanism, and a ton of people are 1 issue voters (abortion) that will vote against their own interests to ensure people they don’t know don’t have access to them. 

Ralph is the Frank Grimes of The Outsiders.

How did the worst MTV VJ from my teenage years become someone who scares Boomers about socialism on Faux News? Tarantino’s final film (if he really sticks to that 10 movies thing) should be a revisionist dramedy about the end of the 20th century in America, where Kurt Cobain shoots Kennedy instead of himself. You can…

One of the things I liked about the book (I will admit, I have not seen the show yet since I don’t have cable and this hasn’t shown up on any of the streaming services I have) was that every logical path was considered before the characters accepted a paranormal cause. Which, yeah, at the time felt like King was just…

I fear that at this point the only way to overhaul the American system is by having everyone persistently and severely injure themselves while simultaneously refusing to pay their insurance premiums and spamming Social Security with requests to be put on disability. You know, a real shock to the system.

I’ll never understand how it’s completely fine for The US to waste trillions on Middle East Wars, border walls, kids in cages and tax cuts for the rich but won’t even bother to fund a universal healthcare system.

Running larger multi seat districts with ranked choice voting in my preferred solution. Combine 5 existing districts into a single larger district. Then run ranked choice voting and take the top 5 candidates. Makes it much easier for 3rd party candidates or different flavors of major parties to get elected.

Go, Team Venture!!!!!!!!

Someone has likely posted this here already, but I love the oft-repeated (probably apocryphal) story about how on the set of Marathon Man, Hoffman stayed up for three days to shoot a scene where his character had been up for the days. When he explained his process to Laurence Olivier, Olivier is said to have responded…

Finally, the long-awaited Duncan Idaho spin off!

He who controls the pumpkin spice, controls the universe!

The pumpkin spice must flow.

FATHER! THE COFFEE HAS AWAKENED ME!

I’m always seeing this idea that eternity would get boring, and I just don’t get it. As long as human civilization keeps rolling, there’s always new material for the book club. There’s always a new Netflix series to binge. There’s always new film and music and videogames; always an ever-evolving marketplace of ideas;…

Better Call Saul

He’s been hanging out with John Roderick of Harvey Danger and the Long Winters doing a podcast about obscure events. I think his time with John has transformed him into a much more worldly guy.

BOOK THREAD!

Just pointing out that I’m a big fan of your father’s work.