Everybody’s biting Roger Ebert:

If Aqua could stop singing songs about Barbies and girls, I’d really appreciate it. I use to be a fan until their Barbie girl opinions came out. Music is my sanctuary and the last thing I want to hear is Barbie girl BS when I’m trying to enjoy music.

Also from Tom Morello. Pretty sure “davez67" is former House Speak Paul Ryan: 

I would guess at least a quarter of rage fans don’t comprehend the lyrics. Probably more.

I have an irrational aversion to non-functional hood scoops/vents/louvres. In high school there were a handful guys who covered their cars in the kind of plastichrome faux performance shit you’d get from the discount parts bin at Pep Boys. Portholes, hood scoops, you name it. The worst thing was they weren’t bad guys,…

True fact* — CS Lewis had the procedure after a failed encounter with Jane Moore, the 45 year old mother of an army friend who was killed in WWI. The pain of the operation and Moore’s taunting reference to “Mr. Tumescent” ringing in his ears, Lewis hid in a wardrobe for months, leading to the idea of half-man, half…

I have to admit I was kinda hoping that Jason would find that the grille, door handles, and headlights/taillights were just decals. Nice to see that it’s close to as-advertised though!

I have some experience with this. Being sent away/“rehomed” is profoundly traumatizing, even when it’s in a divorce situation, with the child in question moving from parent to parent. It doesn’t matter how nurturing the parents are. The child internalizes it as a problem with them, and the sibs question whether it can…

Oh my god, “gotcha day”? My brother and I were adopted as infants, and it was VERY clear to us from the get-go - even though it was never actually said in so many words - that the days we were born were the days that we were born into our family, regardless of how many days it took for us to be officially placed in…

On #3. Besides from the fact that the kids could go ‘oh heck, they could get rid of ME’ and how fucked up that is, it could also go ‘well, if I don’t like something/someone that is different than me, I can just get rid of it/them’. Really messing up future relationships, both familial, social, and professional.

This ‘family as performance’ shit is angering in ways I cannot reasonably put into words using my mushy quarantine brain.

A few things to add color to the discussion:

So an insane person is someone who doesn’t have family support?

From what I’ve read, there was an episode that aired in March where another cast member ruined a custom wrestling outfit of hers and then was dismissive while she was upset. Unbeknownst to her, the other cast member had just bombed at a comedy show and was feeling down. The show fans took his side and sent her tons of…

Must have stolen a sweetroll to get a sentence like that.

A few omissions...

I’m not a huge gamer, but I started Portal and Portal 2 during the lockdown and I find the endings to both games so immensely satisfying in so many ways. I’ve had to play through both several times now, in part just to get back to those endings.

Don’t forget Want You Gone and You Wouldn’t Know.

he’s been drawing Ultraman and Godzilla and a whole load of other stuff as well: