alex pareene

I feel that

yeah don delillo has a cool name and most of the guys he makes up didn't

only one author in the history of English language literature had a cooler real name than the guys he made up: Rex Stout.

What do we call it when a politician holds a public rally calling for the expulsion of homeless people from public space?

number one thing that makes me feel like I'm living in an RPG is the messianic cult depositing Lore everywhere

There's their idealized version of Eric Adams, where a black moderate, socially tolerant former cop can assemble a politically viable, diverse coalition to address serious systemic problems.

Then there's the actual, real-life Eric Adams, who is a corrupt moron and quite possibly insane.

When I met Jim Starlin, he told me “There’s only one difference between writing for Marvel and and writing for DC. The editors at Marvel are tyrants, and the editors at DC are idiots.”

Don't Call Him Deacon Blues

oh wow

NIXON: This Gerwig is she, er...
ZIEGLER: I don't believe so, no.
NIXON: But the husband.
HALDEMAN: Baumbach.
NIXON: I see.

yet again I must give it up for trees

their cooling effect is so obvious in this newly mapped data on the heat island effect in nyc

https://projects.thecity.nyc/2023_07_heat-island-nyc/index.html

Opinion | More Public Pools Could Save Thousands of Lives The biggest reason so many Americans can’t swim is that they have too few places to learn how.

"There are more than 10 million private swimming pools in the United States, according to a C.D.C. estimate, compared with just 309,000 public ones."

All-Star Superman is like the only modern mainstream Superman book I have/share with the kid, otherwise it's all old reprints

Hey it's me, Sonic the Hedgehog!

BIG NEWS: AEGIS-CWA won its union election - SEGA of America has Unionized!

Remember, unionizing your workplace is way past cool! Just like the Chaos Emeralds, workers are stronger when we're together.

An example of a normative question that's been disguised as a theoretical or empirical one. Plenty of cold hard data now that it works, but it's not supposed to. "Dignity of work" and all that. So more tests to convince putative empiricists who have simply inherited cultural norms on moral desert.

big nonprofit with massive testing facilities and rigorous standards and member survey data basically

great point!

I'm always trying to tell my friends to ditch Wirecutter and just subscribe to Consumer Reports. they have a product category issue of skewing older/homeowner like their audience but you can fundamentally trust their reviews and tests.

proposal: on the signup page for this website there should be a jpeg of fentanyl used as talisman to ward away any police officers

yeah he's good. seems like he's having fun and not just cashing a check

oh I should've just clarified live-action. Spider-verse is great stuff.

obi wan yelling at anakin on mustafar from revenge of the sith except instead of anakin it’s matt damon

YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO VISIT THE ZOO, NOT BUY IT

I went to an $8 matinee of The Flash and I would've loved the hell out of that movie when I was 11. It's very funny that it flopped and the star went on a crime spree but it's also somehow the best/most comic booky Big Two movie in years.

this is generally the most convincing answer for every version of the question "why does everything look like shit and make no sense despite being very expensive"

I cannot overstate how much I hate this Geoff Johns shit

I was reading some silver age comics to my kid and it led me to wiki an obscure character and so many of these begin like "Solovar was the smartest ape in Gorilla City and an ally of The Flash" and then in the 2000s become this

oh I 100 percented Tropical Freeze years ago lol that's why I want to get mad at the prequel

anyway next I will probably get mad at the controls for Donkey Kong Country Returns

I think the lesson is people say stuff like "it's hard to screw up Mario" but it's really not, it's actually very easy to screw up Mario and it's remarkable when a company only does that like two or three times tops over several decades