Marillion had a guy named Mark Wilkinson paint (yes, paint) most of their early album covers, and god bless him, he just couldn't climb out of that uncanny valley. The boy on the cover of Misplaced Childhood looks simultaneously like he pooped himself and wants to kill anyone who points it out.

Oddly enough, the American Institute for Mandatory Coprophagia and ALEC mostly buy off the same politicians. Two birds with one stone and all that.

Yeah, that's why I said 'sci-fi' and 'was seen as'.

Oh probably. The classics are the ones that get remembered in the first place, etc. That's always true and it always ruins any good cathartic bitchfest about the state of the world today.

If "SANDERS 2016!" becomes the lefty equivalent of "RON PAUL 2012!" that might end up being its biggest achievement, and I say that with deep sorrow as someone who will write him in in the primaries even if he doesn't run.

My problem with a lot of comedy these days is that it's not remotely subtle, especially the mainstream studio comedies. The commercials make me want to slit my wrists. Like there was one for Hot Pursuit where Reese is going like "STOP TOUCHING MAH BOOBS, I DON'T NEED A PUNCHLINE BECAUSE THE WORD 'BOOBS' IS INHERENTLY…

I think that's a complaint people were going to automatically make, but I'm honestly not getting that vibe here, either in the article or the comments. Acknowledgement is not the same as disdain.

You can't just find garbage lying in the streets of Manhattan!

Judging by Her and Ex Machina, it would mostly be about how Matthew Broderick wanted to fuck his computer.

Every clickbait article, corporate-sponsored facebook account, and Justine Sacco-style Twitter shit storm makes me more nostalgic for the 80's/90's sci-fi where the internet was seen as this mysterious, dangerous place, full of nothing but outcasts and dreamers who did the cyberpunk equivalent of dabbling in the dark…

That's a pretty impressive 0-for-4. Did anyone predict the gentrification trend, sci-fi or otherwise? It seems like from 1965-2000 it was a given that New York and LA would turn into ravaged hellscapes that no one with money would ever set foot in.

I'll cast another vote for the CD compliation commercials. Everybody gets to play to their strengths. That alone would contain like half of Colin's top ten moments.

CRAP! CRAP! Not too bad!

I felt out of place when I visited Oakland. I'm sure Japan would make me feel like the biggest rube on the planet.

Well, it's not like that attitude has gone away. Girls, This is 40, Zach Braff, the New York Times style section, you name it.

I read some reactionary quote about feminism and start to reconsider my admiration, then I read "Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling" and go awww Gilbert, I can't stay mad at you!

All I know is that I was informed that weed would make me pump out writing and pictures like there was no tomorrow and pretty much the opposite happened. I'll use it when I want to relax and have absolutely nothing on the to-do list, either professional or personal.

Caspian feels like Lewis trying to do a more high-toned war/politics fantasy yarn and just not getting there. He's much more at home writing about Marsh-wiggles and Dufflepuds.

Frankly, if your sense of self-worth is tied up in whether a white family defeats a black one on a game show, you've got bigger problems.

I feel that Sexy Asian Sluts Get Assfucked Part 4 really has some unexamined orientalist undertones. Kinda ruins it for me.