Cartoon Shirley looks like Major Lazer's sidekick. https://whatimg.com/i/LqPp7…

Similarly the book Firestarter, by Stephen King and upon which the film is based, came out in 1980:P

The Drew Barrymore tour de force Firestarter definitely preceded Akira.

Yeah, I was wondering if I was the only one who saw this is a blatant metaphor for the difference between libertarianism and social democracy (or other forms of socialism).

"I'm moving into my own apartment with two sexy ladies." Yeah, that makes sense.

"like a manna ray"

His definition of clade could also use some work: "a group of animals which has survived an extinction level event." I think most evolutionary biologists would be interested to hear that one, considering that a clade is just an ancestor and all its descendents regardless of "surviving an extinction level event" and…

I actually created a playlist of the album with the original single versions of "The Mother We Share" and "Lies" in place of the album versions; maybe because I've already listened to them so much, but I'm not enjoying the production of the album versions quite as much.