Either someone at HBO or Joss Whedon, or both, has been reading a lot of fucking paranormal romance novels.

Which means this would have been a giant hit 10 to 15 years ago. Not sure how it’ll do today.

Kids are also remixing the hell out of it and making tons of videos with it on YouTube and TikTok. (My two kids are obsessed with it as a result.) It’s a perfect storm of a good-to-goodish song, technology and a great story.

Kids are also remixing the hell out of it and making tons of videos with it on YouTube and TikTok. (My two kids are obsessed with it as a result.) It’s a perfect storm of a good-to-goodish song, technology and a great story.

So ... how will you know it’s Gossip Girl and not just another teen soap about rich kids? (In other words, all of them.)

Several of the actors did a good job of conveying character with the seemingly simple act of kneeling. Captain America looks ready to fall over, for instance, while Nebula slides down cleanly and smoothly, as fits someone who’s largely mechanical.

If you create the book for someone else, and they own the rights -- even if, in theory, you’ll get the rights back under certain conditions -- it’s work for hire.

I work for hire for a living.

There’s a reason you don’t see a bunch of other creators acting like Moore: It’s a ridiculous stance that no one else is…

Among those deeper ideas: “I bet Dorothy Gale would be great in the sack.”

Given what a big seller it is -- it’s even taught at a number of colleges, meaning a need to have a supply of paperbacks always in print -- I don’t think there’s a reminder needed.

As I recall, they were going to pay him for Beyond Watchmen, or whatever they called that book, and Moore was going to give the money to homeless shamans or some shit instead of taking it. I suspect he contractually gets a piece of all subsidiary works.

I’ve worked for hire. Even if you have a ton of control over what the end product looks like, it’s not your work. An established professional, which is what Moore was by the point he negotiated his Watchmen contract, knows that.

Him being precious over what happens with Watchmen is ridiculous — far worse has been done…

The only reason I can see one might jump to that conclusion is the Rorschachs (or whatever they’re called in the TV series) attacking the cops, leading the cops to put on masks.

But like Laurie says right after that, a cop in a mask is identical to a vigilante.

I suspect they’re ultimately going to have a similar point…

I hope it makes Billboard and record label execs’ blood pressure go through the roof.

I know middle schoolers are obsessed with the song. I think it hit just as tools to remix songs and create videos hit a critical ease level (and TikTok is largely built on such things).

While the song is the right song for this treatment, I think the technology is the X factor here.

For those, like me, who didn’t know what a homi was (as opposed to “homie”), it’s a Korean hand-plow.

(Which, yes, sounds like slang for finger-banging, but it is what it is.)

This looks significantly less funny than Ryan North’s stellar To Be Or Not to Be.

That said, if it’s half as good as that, it should be great.

Yeah, TWD would be great if they actually really created something resembling a society, instead of progressively sillier groups of villains and people getting haircuts in the least plausible and least realistic-looking outdoor sets possible.

The third Walking Dead series sounds like it’s actually going to tackle these…

No, just places where Bob from Accounting knows how to grill a good burger.

What blighted hellscape do you work at?

I think part of the cult of In-N-Out is their spectacular customer service, which is based, in part, on how well the corporation treats its employees, at a time when most corporations seem to be in a race to the bottom in that regard.

I don’t think I’ve ever dealt with an In-N-Out employee who didn’t seem happy and…

Alan Moore created Watchmen as a work for hire for DC Comics and he can read and understand contracts. (It’s also made him rich enough that he and his beard can do whatever they want for the rest of their lives, including no longer create comics, which he recently announced was his new career direction.)

Nearly all of…

Underrated show.