So I'm watching a bit of that old animated "Horton Hears A Who" special from the 70's. There's a scene where the leader of the village gets sick of Horton's completely factual claim that there's an entire civilization living on a speck of dust he's been carrying around. She directs three thuggy guys called the…

That's not the right line, but I'll keep going. You look great in it!

Oh, I wasn't criticizing Kier in the slightest; I was just pointing out how his presence contributes to the overall inexplicability of this show. I mean, Udo fucking Kier voiced the main villain in a Scooby-Doo show. He recorded hours of voicework as an evil, purple little parrot with a scarf, threatening Scooby and…

So, back while we were doing the advent calendar, I was unclear on the rules, and started writing a piece on Scooby-Doo: Mystery Incorporated. I recently went back to that and finished it for kicks, and I thought I'd post it here. It's a bewilderingly great, underappreciated show, and it was fun to sing its praises a…

Booo! Bad pun! Bad pun! You put that pun right back where you found it, headline!

You must admit…

It's all the same shit. Political differences fall aside when you're united by the drive to break everybody else's stuff. These people don't actually have political ideologies, they just want to to fuck and eat whoever/whatever they want. These are organisms suited for the jungle, and there's entirely too little…

Given that Steve Bannon is apparently open about his desire to destroy society so he can remake it in his image, I'd say this is a very efficient move.

See, what did I say? The Wings of Desire references are cursed!

Or eat it, and absorb it into your system. You'll be able to silence car alarms just by moving your hands up and down!

"It's from the writer of Collateral Beauty."
That's bad.
"Wings of Desire apparently plays an important part in it."
That's good!
"The Wings of Desire references are cursed."
That's bad.
"But the film comes with a free frozen yogurt, which I call frogurt!"
That's good!
Etc, etc.

I got a t-shirt from my mom for Christmas of Bill Bailey's angelic mug and the caption "Be the king of your own calm kingdom." I wear it everywhere.

I love me some Fawlty Towers, but it's too mean-spirited to be truly feel-good. It's not a show to watch when you're already stressed out. Black Books, on the other hand, I would accept.

"…Supreme Court pick Neil Gorsuch founded an led a] club
called 'Fascism Forever' against [the] liberal faculty at his elite all-boys
DC prep school."
You know, after a certain point, some sentences just can't provoke outrage anymore. That sentence isn't one of them.

Sure, I'd like to listen to something other than "Spaceman" by Harry Nilsson, but it's not as simple as all that.

Something something Matrix reference. Honestly, every piece of science-fiction social commentary warning us of how the gentle enticement of the world of computers would be our gradual downfall isn't looking as prescient as it used to; turns out good ole fashioned open political conquest and thuggery are still very…

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It makes an excellent model for a free existence.

I had a set of trees at my childhood home for different purposes. I had my own Climbing Tree, which I often fell out of. Then there was the Swinging Tree, which had a branch low and horizontal enough that I could grab onto it with both hands and swing from my arms. And there was the Flying Tree, which was an oak too…

*sigh*

It's not ending this season; it's ending after its ninth season, sometime next year.