sorry, babs. the correct answer to 43 across is ‘alive’

so we’re no longer satisfied with charging someone who asks why they’re being arrested with ‘assaulting an officer’? now we need a hate crimes statute to add onto it?

so, when you write a long, insightful, deeply-reported piece of excellent journalism like this, and people want to come and comment at you about whether an artistic portrayal of gears used to metaphorically convey the condition of your subject is sound from an engineering standpoint... do you have a laugh at that,…

this guy’s got a deep background in pr. what he’s doing is acknowledging the material facts of the problem while simultaneously trying to minimize the intensity of it. the objective is to get as many people as possible nodding along because of the well-documented phenomenon that if you get people to agree with you…

your ‘relationship with jesus’

if it’s a text quote from another article, “caucuses” should probably be [sic]ed. i suspect what he said was Caucasus, i.e. the mountain range in eastern europe between georgia & azerbaijan on the south, and russia on the north.

it reminded me a lot of rattlesnake, the one time i had that. which, taxonomically speaking, makes sense. the rattlesnake was more shrimpy in texture but, uh, ‘unique’ in flavor.

this is a man who made the soundtrack to a campy batman movie more listenable than most of top 40 radio - one does oneself a disservice only listening to singles or chart hits

a-u-t-o-matic

i was allll set to press play, and then gottwald showed up.

gator is about halfway between chicken and shrimp, weirdly. and not just in flavor, in texture too. i don’t know if that makes any sense but i don’t know how else to describe it.

remember that time we swam naked
in your father’s pool
man, was he ever mad
but man, was that ever cool

and wait

she is coming to the red rocks amphitheater at the end of june

we’re also using sexually-transmitted infection for the sake of accuracy. a disease, in a medical context, is a set of symptoms with a specific known cause. many people with STIs are asymptomatic, so it doesn’t actually qualify as a disease.

i mean

well, the plot is fungible to a certain extent, in a remake, and in my experience even a ridiculous seeming concept can be redeemed by an appropriate treatment, but then that’s merely anecdotal, so.

if you remake a good movie, the remake is likely to be worse. if you remake a bad movie, you have a chance to do better! mean regression is your friend.

very plausible. freezing is a common and under-documented prey response.

and the lede image is great. it was snapped at the exact moment he remembered humans don’t have a proboscis and tried to pass it off like he was just licking the porkchop.