Obviously shouldn’t feed the troll but, for the record: I quite like Ulysses, have read it multiple times, and I would call <i>that</i> “trippy” too. Yes it’s a stoner word, but if you’re such a fucking snob/misanthrope that you can’t apply a broader, more open minded sense to it and try to expand your sense of…

I can read maybe a page of that book and I start feeling like I am having all the worst parts of an acid trip.

But Carrot Top could carry your casket by himself!

I was working at a porn store for a few months and the radio was always tuned to this really cheerful station. Played “Hey Soul Sister” a lot, and though I haven’t listened to it since, I am still convinced that song is just about some douche at a festival getting a blowjob.

I mean... a little?

For what it’s worth, that “bathing in blood” bit was about Lady Bathory, an old school rich European. I know we’re not unique, I just meant... we worship wealth more openly than most societies that I know of. Others have had the decency to hide it, at least.

Lately I’ve been wondering more and more often about whether or not it’s human nature to hate the poor or if it’s a malady that particularly infects contemporary America.

Same goes for Batman villains.

I don’t know about that, but I’m definitely a drunk that makes movies.

Hey! I see myself reflected in Barnie and -

That sucks. Strike down one more public person I kinda admired for their supposed loyalty to the abstract ideals they espoused...

They could do a commercial featuring Dead Kennedys’ Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

And in DC he’s a friendly goth girl (since technically Sandman was part of the DC universe pre-Vertigo) but then in Gaiman and Pratchett’s Good Omens he’s a skeleton that speaks in all caps too so I guess on balance Death is...

So I read an article about these videos a couple days ago (on Medium I think? Can’t find the link right now); the writer seemed to think that a lot of these videos are at least partially “authored” by algorithms that pick up on the things that get clicks and then mash them together in inappropriate, dark ways because,…

Of course! It’s a reverse Highlander rule!

I agree that the melancholy was a huge part of the success of the first game, but for me, given the real world political climate, I was happy to see the more empowered/cheerful tone of the back half of the game.

So there’s a documentary about the after affects of both the story and the surrounding mythology that sprung up (I guess you’d call it? maybe proto-reality star culture is more accurate) called “My Amityville Horror” that I remember being interesting.

They’re still waiting for one of their employees to die horrifically-but-not-too-horrifically so that there’s a brain left.

It really is kinda the worst of 1984 and Brave New World but via the corporate overlords of Neuromancer.

Agreed. Can only add that Kelly’s comments reeked of Starship Trooper-ish notions of how “only the soldiers really know what it means to serve the greater good!” nonsense.