Yikes on bikes! I had no idea. That’d make this a no brainer. Wow. 

The other thing is that at $180K no one is going to buy this thing- the actuarial tables and my genetics suggest that I have about thirty years or so left on this planet, and I don’t think I’m going to spend $6K a year on electricity. On the other hand, the prospect of being energy dependent in my own right has always…

People like this make me feel less shitty about the world. Needed this today. 

For sure. I basically haven’t been visiting on my own since Musk took over, and only go when other people I care about send me links a couple of times a month. During each of those times the unfiltered comment sections full of hate remind me why I don’t visit daily. To some I imagine that’s a feature and not a bug,…

Man I can’t wait until the Godzillas show up #chinaregrets

Holy fuck, it sure as shit is! Was operating under the impression that it was as it was originally typed! Learn something new every day. 

Also- how exactly are we defining “blockbuster”? Are we measuring it by box office success or by money spent on making/marketing the film? I mean, Slumdog Millionaire made serious bank but I’d never call it a blockbuster in the manner that I typically think about them. And also- didn’t it win an Oscar??

The answer to your “why buy an _____ when you can buy a Tesla” is as simple as I have a HUGE dislike for Tesla’s CEO. For years my dream car was a Model X- it was an aspirational thing; this giant, cool expensive bauble that hits all the right spots from a practical and fun perspective. The thing is, when it became my…

Today I learned that the person singing backup to Boy George on COTPM was white- nearly 40 years after I first heard it. Good lord.

I don’t know how this list gets made without Rick Astley, the original “come again??” reaction when I saw his video. I mean, not only is he white, but he’s this tiny dude that has a voice that belongs to someone with the body type of Rueben Studdard. It’s like a greatest basketball players of all time list without the…

And Pink is most definitely, definitely light-skinned. lololol

I am old enough to remember that Bobby Caldwell song being played on the radio and in my house by my very black parents and never once questioning that the dude was black. It is in the year of our lord 2023 that the scales have been lifted from my eyes, and I just can’t stop laughing. Holy shit. That’s a white dude!!…

No shit man. I used to have a widow’s peak. Used to. Now my whole dome is shaved weekly, because it needs to be. I am super jealous of that man’s har.

I actually think we’re on the same page. The concept of Black Captain America felt weird until they did it, and then it was like “oh, that makes total sense, go Cap!”- and the other thing is that I also know that Black Supe would just feel weird to me, and nobody ever named me as the arbiter of what should and should…

I don’t know if that’s... fair? I’ve got plenty of friends who I love dearly who have suuuuuuuuper problematic immediate family members whom I would not urinate on if they were ablaze (but may add gasoline). By all accounts Rick seems to be a really decent person, although you never really know. But I’m not here to…

This formula is not replicable. It’s the perfect convergence of reputation, past quality, nostalgia, and word of mouth- a thing where the anticipation builds years in advance and then when released people quickly finding out the buzz is legit. Metroid wouldn’t sell this well, and Mario platformers happen with a teeny…

But that would be a different story. A totally different story. Different stories are good. And there is space and room for different stories, kind of like how Dorothy Gale was a white chick from Kansas for nearly a hundred years until The Wiz happened, and the Wiz was amazing. But I want my Superman to feel like the…

It will never cease to boggle my mind that someone who seems like such a nice dude emerged from the same womb as an utter troglodyte. 

Oh I think it’s because the corporate mega entities behind Taco Bell have far, far deeper pockets and longer legal penises than this (probably popular) brand that I’ve never heard of. Will be interested to see what happens.

As a black man, I think it would be super cool to see someone who looked like me (although maybe not 52 years old, short and slightly pudgy) don the S- but... it would Super Weird. Superman is Clark Kent. Clark Kent is a white dude. I suppose they could pull some Captain America shit, where Clark retires and a…