/Put pennies made of coal on his eyes when he’s buried, etc.

It’s not just me, right? All over the world, we’re getting noticeably worse at fixing things after disasters. New Orleans after Katrina, New York after Irma, the Pacific after the 2004 tsunami, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico again, Haiti, Fukushima, the Philippines, Houston. (And then there’s the whole GWOT to consider,…

Eh. Except they did that after 9/11 and were absolutely excoriated for it.

I . . . I can’t. I’m sorry, the sequel trilogy just broke me. It was all so, so bad. It was like a heart attack or a stroke or a drowning: A critical portion of my Star Wars muscles and neurons were deprived of oxygen and now I just . . . can’t anymore. I’m sorry. I wish I could still care, I really do.

one of many recent young adult dystopias whose setting that can’t really plausibly exist outside the original books they were written for without some significant suspension of disbelief

So what you’re saying is that there will be a period where the only live Star Wars thing will be Star Wars Lego Adventures?

Star Wars isn’t very good.

ACTUP had this all figured out 25+ years ago: Shelters kill. Housing works. 

So I mean people are asking, “How do we overcome fascism?”

Those people in the silly costumes look dumb standing there.

Would you all believe that I’m considering cancelling Disney+? Like, okay, I’ve watched the Mandalorian. I watched the World According to Jeff Goldblum. I’ve watched the more-or-less uncut 1940 version of Fantasia. It’s been fun to have all a large part of Star Wars at the touch of my fingers. I already *had* mos of…

Sports aren’t very good.

It’s mid- to late-January. We are in The Dry Season.

I think I’m watching and listening to so many “let’s make fun of bad movies” media these days that it may be affirmatively damaging my ability to enjoy *any* movie. I’m watching MST3K, Rifftrax, Cinematic Titanic and listening to How Did This Get Made, Nathan Rabin, Boys’ Bible Study (a new discovery; group makes fun…

I’ve never heard anyone discuss it before now.

I find most of the 40K universe pretty resolutely un-thrilling. When it comes to ‘Ancient Future’ stuff, I can almost always say “Dune did it better.” And the relentless—but brainless—Grimdark doesn’t help matters.

Wow, that must be one absolutely thrilling 12-lead EKG she’s reading.

Yep; my dad grew up in Queens in the 50s, 60s, 70s (odd to think of him living just a couple dozen blocks from the Trumps). And visiting the NYC Transit Museum, he was thrilled to see these old things, with the cane seats and such.

Video games aren’t very good.

Hey now: Poontang Eve is my and Mrs Pillow’s favorite night of the week.