Key as Lafayette/Jefferson?

"True Love Waits" is gorgeous and bittersweet. I wouldn't call it depressing at all. It can have quite a cathartic effect.

What? I'd never want that gone. If I had to skip one, it'd be "Drunken Punch-Up At A Wedding", but I still rarely did. I quite liked HTTT.

I remember something on Last Plane to Jakarta about "Airbag" and how the chorus is located at the intersection of anger and joy. That part just seems to explode from the throat when one sings it.

Really? I always find that one sort of energizing. It's too angry to be the most depressing.

Maybe the guy at Dunkin Donuts needed a mood lifter! He could look at his life, which includes providing people with coffee and pastries that make their day a bit better, and conclude that he's doing something for the world. That's more than the people who want to somehow apply sabermetrics to music can say right…

It's also potentially interesting to note his interest in using then-groundbreaking CGI in his videos starting in the early 90s. "Black or White" has the morphing technology, while that long-form one about the haunted house ("Ghosts", I think?) has pretty cutting-edge (for the time) mocap stuff in it. If he had…

I don't think Charon lets you take your own yacht.

That's awful. (I still laughed.)

I thought I knew what it was for a person to waste their precious lifespan, but the people behind this are taking it to bold and unusual new territory. Will they look back on this fondly when they're older? Will they be proud of their accomplishment? Is this happiness to them?

I'm of the opinion that Michael Jackson was the first true cyberpunk celebrity entertainer. He transformed himself through radical plastic surgery into a new shape that nobody else in the world would have. Stick that in a short story from 1982 and there's little question to which genre people would assign it.

It's been interesting to note the patterns of nations becoming surveillance states. Up here in Canada, Harper's Conservative majority government passed a bill giving CSIS sweeping new powers of domestic surveillance (so much so as to effectively require a new division). Most of the other parties opposed it; the…

Works as "reach out and punch face", too.

He'll tell you when he's had enough!

Might be the strongest candidate yet, actually. Well done.

*Chris Christie files to change his legal name to Torquemada*

Well, it also sounds like you could just run a standard 3.5 mm TRS cable from the headphone jack to an RCA adapter or whatever's applicable to your setup.

I'm surprised they didn't name her Splitsy at this point.

You have to be joking. Duela. Harvey Dent named his daughter Duela. Someone got paid to write Harvey Dent naming his daughter Duela. People all over starve because they can't find paying work and someone got paid to write Harvey Dent naming his daughter Duela.

I've been thinking about your second thing for a while. What makes people attracted to or repulsed by authoritarianism? How does our allegiance get set? Can it switch in a lifetime?