People, if you see something you like, just appreciate it. Imitating it all the time makes other people hate it.

I'm not that interested. Mildly curious, maybe. Willing to see it; but not interested.

Oh Harrison, I just loved you in Six Days Seven Nights – !

Fuck, I would be all over him about Witness. Just gushing.

a simple enough hook, but it's complicated by all these other hooks

I think if we go on, we can come up with a handful of exceptions. I'm not gonna let Shang Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, go unmentioned. But that's the point – a handful of exceptions, compared to the "rule" of the 60s-era creations who all still have their own books.

I think it was John Romita Jr. doing the art, wasn't it?)

Punisher (who arguably since his late 80s/early 90s heyday has dropped off)

hard to imagine some of the characters, such as Cable, might still be relevant in 20 years (it could probably be argued he hardly is now).

The Atlantic is an very mixed bag. For a big national magazine, they don't seem to have any real point of view. But their internet game is strong.

This is not my understanding. My understanding is views won't be aired without people being dicks about them.

I really do not see the issue with point 1, which is an amorphous idea of discourse compared to actual problems (climate change! terrorism! etc.!). I don't like playing that card and am amenable to an argument that says the way we discuss problems is important for how we address them,

in any case I think it's pretty likely that conservatives will find ways to exploit the logic of "safe spaces" and "micro-aggressions," etc.

the whole Yale thing started because a professor said maybe people shouldn't get so worked up about the prospect that someone might wear an offensive Halloween costume.

3. This sounds like conservatives are afraid of hostility. Maybe they should be less wimpy.

I was not very impressed with that "woe our college students are delicate pansies woe" piece by a couple of shrinks that made the rounds a few months ago.

Gottacook! Dude! Did we use to talk in the comment threads, way back when Zack Handlen was posting reviews of Star Trek TOS? About the music of TOS?? That was in the pre-disqus era, I think — or before I had set up a permanent username anyway, though I was posting with this handle.

Oh yeah, that sounds great.
:-)

Covenant series pretty important in my life too, honestly. I was in my early teens when they came out, and they were probably the most
"serious" thing I had attempted to read. The end was profoundly moving, to me. (My feelings for the second series were more complex; and downright conflicted on the third.) Later I…

I mean, just call her Fuckable Loveintrest at that point.