The Bricktosser

The New Apple TV Show From the Creator of Breaking Bad Is a Paranoid Epic for Our Moment Vince Gilligan’s Apple TV series is a return to his roots.

Vince Gilligan’s new show Pluribus has a great, resonant premise and lots of nifty twists, but also, and I cannot stress this enough, Rhea Seehorn gets to swear a lot.

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Can't disagree but I love em both.

My hot take is Teenage of the Year and Last Splash are even better than any Pixies releases.

The good news has always been that Trumpism at its peak was still pretty unpopular and likely unsustainable electorally. The bad news is all the work going into making the "electorally" part moot.

Now that MAGA is in decline I worry (slightly) less.

It's another all-timer, IMHO.

I always enjoy the podcast but this one was in the upper tiers for me.

I am taking particular pleasure in the complete collapse of trans-as-unbeatable-wedge-issue narrative this morning. It might be an 80-20 issue in voters minds, but it has to be on voters minds to matter. The results in VA demonstrate that it is very much not on voters minds.

After seeing the VA Gov election results, I really hope all those "throw trans people under the bus" slimeballs slither back under their rocks.

A big blue wave

The Democratic Party needs to MOTHERFUCKER I AM NOT GONNA LISTEN TO A DAMN THING DEMOCRATS NEED TO DO WHILE REPUBLICANS ARE KIDNAPPING PEOPLE ON THE STREET.

WHAT REPUBLICANS NEED TO DO TO RECLAIM THEIR FUCKING SOULS IS TO STOP DOING THAT.

Where is THAT column?

Christ.

The solution to one party saying they hate half of America isn't the other party seeking common ground with that party. It's the other party saying they want a better America for everyone, and anyone who agrees should vote for them.

You can use any filament with Bambu. You have to use their slicer (or jump through hoops) though.

Ah well! Your comment does make me want to find out more about the man. I haven't seen the Jimmy Stewart movie but I suppose I mentally have him superimposed on my image of Miller.

Looking forward to this,thanks to my dad I always liked Glenn Miller music but don't know a lot about the man.

I always took it to be absurd hyperbole for effect; I suppose common use has blunted that to meaningless.

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale

The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

I mean they said 'significantly' improving... it might triple her odds!

As a Chicagoan, it's really distressing here.

Conservatives think Chicago is a war zone. Well, it wasn't until these assholes showed up.

Spike album cover, Elvis Costello

Album cover for Megatop Phoenix by Big Audio Dynamite

Underrated classic.

A black and white photo of Herriman at his drawing table with a doll of Krazy.

A panel of Ingnatz throwing a brick at Krazy's head while Officer Pupp yells "Transgression!!!"

A panel of Ignatz asking Krazy "so you are a dual personality, eh?" Krazy responds "oh, shoe - dollin- I'm a prektigill a twin."

The newspaper comic strip Krazy Kat, created by George Herriman, premiered on October 28, 1913. The characters had previously appeared as a side strip to The Dingbat Family. Krazy Kat ran until Herriman’s death in 1944.

Happy to own a copy of that!

Shock Treatment is somewhat flawed*, but is pretty much the only way I can see following up Rocky. A broad turn thematically that treats Brad and Janet as the modern Commedia dell'arte characters they are and not literal narrative entities.

* I love it anyway

The cultural changes they want cannot happen because the world they think they should have is imaginary and always was. They literally CANNOT accomplish their societal goals no matter how much they try. Trans people aren't going anywhere. Non-white people are always gonna be on TV.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I hope it's clear that anyone supporting Platner at this point are in it for the intentional divisiveness and not for any serious reason.

Unfollow those people if you follow them. Disregard those people forevermore.

In the 90s there was a complete collection released on CD-ROM and I read all of it up to that point, and it was fantastic. Most of it aged really well, as I recall.

I have never liked a politician so much that I would get on the internet to negotiate how much Nazi tattoo is a acceptable amount of Nazi tattoo.

It's none! None Nazi tattoo!

Ah a debate bro.

So long.

I'm sorry, you just made that up. Nobody thinks that way about our government when they say Democracy. We all know what it means, limited democratic democracy in a federal Republic with varying levels closer to direct democracy in smaller government units.