Greg Baldino

The worst thing about Tuesday is that now every vaguely progressive coded local candidate is going to be called (Insert City)'s Mamdani and I'm already over it in advance

bob 's burgers is a cartoon about a man holding a bag of turkey in a grocery store . Alt: A mustachioed man triumphantly holds up a plucked turkey in the grocery store. "You are the one!"

That's because they're sore losers about not getting their own Riverbrook Lake Farm Heritage Turkey--fresh killed, never frozen, raised in the best conditions!!

It and Knives Out come the closest of any modern films come to the pleasure of the Thin Man films

Predictable.

Now an HBO series based on Spawn/WildCATS now THERE'S something unexpected!

Not necessarily good, but unexpected!

A panel from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' WATCHMEN, where a circulatory system (Dr. Manhattan) walks through the kitchen. This happens on November 10.

happy circulatory system walking through the kitchen day

I thought for a minute you meant you were going to leave your mortal flesh and become a golem

a photo of a papercraft depicting Elephant Mario

a photo of a papercraft depicting a Thromp that has just crushed Mario

hello i think you should follow me because i post little paper creatures ok ty

I'm working on it!

If you don't pay a proper salary for public office, the only people you get occupying public office are the already rich who are there to ensure they stay that way and you never get there

Guy at the library was complaining about how much of his taxes goes to us that he doesn't use. I ask him how much.
"$300 a year!"
"Okay, so with the library millage that would mean you own a $3 million dollar home, and you're complaining because we don't have a shop vac you can borrow for free."

You're doing God's work

And Shuma Goroth is a giant eyeball with tentacles and that's just Wonderful

Also cuz no cliche dialogue or motivation.
You're never going to get an artificial sun from the 853rd century droning on about how he and Superman are not so different. Surtur is never going to let himself get caught because he's counting on Thor following standard procedures.

And I know why; it's because as a teen I watched the Fifth Element on HBO like 40 times, and who's the big bad?
GIANT FLAMING ORB OF
HATRED

This may surprise sooner please but my favorite comic book villains? Big single-minded monsters of hate.
Surtur
Solaris the Tyrant Sun
SHUMA GOROTH

It must burn trump that for all his bragging about speculatively getting away with shooting someone Cheney actually did it

Weirdly close to one of Darger's chimerae

--she quits the police and becomes a social worker, no less!

The other 2 are Office Basilisk in Questionable Content who quits the force when she realizes how corrupt and abusive the police are, and Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork

This touched on why I think Barney Miller is one of 3 instances of police in fiction not being copaganda; it's almost exclusively tedious paperwork over minor crimes and grievances, & Barney canonically disagrees with and goes against standard policy and orders, even being reprimanded & suspended

Less "Highway to the Danger Zone" and more "Service Drive to the Maintenance Hangar"

Agreed; a lot of people only think of the military as active combat duty but a lot of people are in jobs ranging from accounting to groundskeeping to counseling in the armed services because of the pay and benefits.

Wallace Shawn contains so many multitudes, it's honestly amazing.

You're absolutely right! I worked on my novel in seclusion for like 3-4 years before I showed it to a friend who also writes-- mainly because I was worried I was in a Joe Gould/Henry Darger situation-- and their support has made the process so much easier and also more enjoyable!

My online business ethics students are cooking. One of them said of ethics in business "the real question is not whether business ethics "makes sense," but whose sense of ethics is being protected or ignored."

Followers, I had to stop and sit with that for a moment. Whose ethics INDEED.

If you can lose and still have fun playing, it's a gift you give to yourself.

The most important thing I learned playing speed chess against guys in the park is your failures are not interesting, your victories are not interesting, playing chess with other people out in the world IS interesting.

Act out dramatic death scenes for your pieces when they get taken. Make little cartoon arrive effects when you move across the board. Name your pieces and make up character dynamics between them. If you're going to be bad at it, have fun with it.

Researching my incredibly niche historical novel I was able to find the location of my towns various brothels because they were listed on the 1904 census