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To get to the other side

I must reread this. There's That Moment about 40% of the way through where I remember thinking, "o shit, Scotty just opened up another chamber"

If you haven't heard Chet Atkins's cover of Cheek to Cheek, it's very good and on a wholly incredible record called Solo Flights

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social thank you and damn you for introducing me to EU4, it has both enriched and ruined my life

That's a spicy bush

Seems the one thing I can rely on these days is the incompetence of others

Bless Bandcamp but it confuses and confounds people for some reason, maybe because everyone is addicted to ease and convenience

How dare we BUY INGREDIENTS to MAKE FOOD in a vainglorious effort to SAVE MONEY

Is this some kinda evolution of SovCit nonsense? Like what even is the aim & angle of this faux-pedantry

Definitely not on the same level as Rocky Horror but there are some *classic* songs on that soundtrack. I'm partial to Looking for Trade.

I had my first successful meditation ever back in December and it was a transcendental experience; I basically deep-breathed for over an hour straight and dumped so much cortisol I literally felt like I was coming up on acid—so much so that my ex checked me for acute mania, lol

Two words: Jessica Harper

What's your secret?

(please don't say exercise and a healthy diet, PLEASE don't say exercise and a healthy diet, PLEASE DON'T SAY

Oh wait, if you're getting into "what even IS reality, you know??" movies of that era, what about Being John Malkovich?

Sticking things up the urethra.

Live Free or Die

Utah just watches from across the border

All the freaks from Montana and South Dakota meet up in Wyoming

Maximizing profits and/or creating bold new internal contradictions

fAiR & BaLaNcEd NeWs MeDiA

People ask me if I write anymore and it's the most depressing question you can ask me these days aside from "Got any shows coming up??"

And by "would" I mean "I would literally stab a baby to have a high-speed rail line that could take me from my hometown of Greensboro, NC to Montreal, New York or New Orleans on a weekend whim"

would

I fucking love TV Tropes, I honestly think my writing and criticism improved because of it

One of the greatest tricks the devil ever played was convincing people that overpopulation is the problem and not overproduction

Did you have to clear out a small health potion to make room

Ghostbusters: Night Country

I think of Vella Lovell's perfect line read from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: "As John-Paul Sahhhrtrer wrote, 'We are our choices.'"

That subhed is a mini-masterpiece of obscurantism

Then you are the winner

"ah man I can't trick this guy into incriminating himself, ah Jeezy Pete's"