Mark Thomason

The stupid…. It hurts…

Honestly this is the one eventuality that I thought would have happened faster not slower…

Different lists I think. Chase is talented but a terrible person. Jimmy isn’t talented. Though this news does kind of show he’s also too obsequious to stand up for his country or industry. Different kind of awful than Chase…

It fits, it’s just like every other tech innovation but faster…

A good hat is always sexy.

We saw two in Sequoias National Park just a week after we stayed with you. One was in the middle of the road and being grey blended, so we got out and used a magazine to shepherd it to the side of the road so it wouldn’t get run over. Dumb thing was like ‘ha, I’m camo so predators can’t see me!’

I have zero idea how to qualify a celebrity interaction as most minor. I guess I’ve walked past a few in the airport? I have lots of celebrity interactions since I work with a ton of celebrities….

Yes hello? Ees miss Deena Seempseen home?

As is often the case, you’re saying exactly what I am, only more eloquently and precise.

Also, now it is a movie too, but in the world of the play RENT, I always thought it was hilarious that Roger sings One Song Glory, an absolute banger about wanting to write one great song before he dies, and then writes what he decides is his great masterpiece and it’s the worst in the whole play.

100%. Love the O-need-ers

In general I kind of like the more naturalistic look but when wearing VR goggles the more clean look is definitely appropriate

I just want one with a window seat to read in, and look up from my book at the view with a cup of tea on a winter’s day….

Joseph Conrad’s Liver of Dimness

Catch 19

Wuthering Averages

Okay so how does that work exactly? This one doesn’t seem to animate…

You brought this on yourself! Gif of Perf from Journeyquest casting milk spell at an orc

What dreams may come. And Good Morning Vietnam. And Fisher King. And Goodwill Hunting. Oh, and Garp. And Aladdin. Oh wait also Awakenings. No. Wait, Hook…. Um… can I choose more than one?

Honestly, while your self-portrait is solid, if it were in a lineup of a bunch of similar illustrations I don’t know if I’d be confident to pick you out. Orv, on the other hand, is instantly identifiable and I would recognize them from this drawing in a lineup immediately.

They don’t. The thing about fascists is they’re never as smart as they think they are. They haven’t thought this through, just came up with an idea to twist the narrative to something their fanatics might accept…

Matt's strategy to push back against 🧊 is so good we made a video about it. Are you in on the Big Freeze? TikTok video by Opening Arguments Podcast

as the DHS hiring surge gets going there's really only one realistic way that we can pull together to stop what's coming with ICE. But the good news is that (A) it's hardly any effort, and (B) you're probably already doing it

here's THE BIG FREEZE in 40 shareable seconds

That’s some serious costume design cachet.

I like Newsom’s plan for balancing the gerrymander. I do not like Newsom’s comments on transgender people. I would never support him for the democratic nomination to president. If he gets it, I will still vote for him over the MAGA candidate happily. And people will be angry at me for both things.

I’m saying if you didn’t start young you might be limited in how your brain developed so you might be very good but the guy who started at 3 and put in as much work as you may have a higher ceiling.

Again, there is a physical element. In the extremes a blind man will never be a great painter, but taken more precisely being color blind will limit a graphic designer’s potential considerably. I’m not saying starting young makes you great

I feel like a certain amount of that is physical - I’m 5’5” I was never going to be a great basketball player - but also a lot of it is related to early years. Great athletes like Gretzky or Messi grew up playing the sport in diapers. Mozart’s dad had him playing piano before he was walking, etc

I hear you make funny movies about gaming…

Next time we get together we should talk about Cyndi - I worked with her just before she won her Tony and she is an absolute gem of a human.

That… is impressively pathetic. Like, didn’t even occur to me he could have been that weak, physically. He’s obviously much weaker mentally and spiritually, but I didn’t really expect to see it demonstrated like that…