I’ve said this before, but it remains true: I don’t know what Target will have to do to win me back as a customer, what lengths they may have to go to… but I’m very excited to watch them desperately try 😈
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.
From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.
“… Motivated by anger and art in equal measure…” — @dansinker.com
From the latest issue (#87) of his newsletter (Unfinished Business)
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Such a powerful string of words!
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Honestly, they’re unwelcome lots of places.
Boromir of Lord of the Rings at the Council of Elrond referring to the One Ring with “It is a gift.”
They’re coming across more like:
“Cyber Monday” is, at its core, a wholly stupid concept and makes its fellow of “Black Friday” seem almost nearly reasonable by comparison.
I think it might be fun to watch them try… but, yeah, totally agree with you. I think it boils down to broken trust — even if they supposedly change, we’re all left waiting for the other shoe to drop; they’ve done it before after all.
A zine printed on yellow paper with a Mr Yuk that looks like the CGE logo. The logo around it says “Yuk Yuk Says Stay Away” with the CGE letters below it. Below that, a hashtag: #BlacklistCGE
During Gen Con, I will have 250 of these zines with me.
The goal is to inform normies about what’s going on with CGE and a call to action to join the blacklist.
No buying, pitching, or covering CGE games until they give the community a proper apology and response on how they plan to make good. 🎲✂️
If anyone wants Mr Yuk to say something else, I can probably run off a few others. Same goes for breaking it down into multi-sheets and such. Anything to increase shenanigans.
Oops, I accidentally made you a nice hi-res version
And become a tradewife?
I am tired of this world. These people. I am tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.
Rookie numbers!
I dunno man… I don’t believe in things, but *something* is trying to send these guys a message…
This also triggers just SO many scam email red flags… it would be hilarious if not, well, you know
Reagan was a piece of shit too… but whatever helps them get their head around the immediate problem, I guess.
Theater Kid + History Nerd is a mighty combination in very, very select circumstances.
Leaving out Leon Czolgosz and Charles Guiteau?!
Comics Thanos: nope, bunch of clearly selfish reasoning behind his actions
Movie Thanos: maybe, depends on how truly committed to his rhetoric we want to believe he was… I kinda feel like it was truly a possibility
You have never seen pure apathy until you’ve seen a roomful of convention dealers calmly ignoring a fire alarm until they get told it’s a for real one.
Dear every ally, both celebrity and random.
Hormones cause puberty. Republicans are trying to convince everyone that *teenagers* are too young for *puberty*.
Please bake this into the way you talk about trans youth.
All of this being a glorious rejection of all the whataboutisms and exception hunting that goes on. Like “Yeah, sure, that sort of stuff is checked and accounted for and doesn’t ever really come up!”
I even further imagine, in reference to the Enby and Intersex (and any other dead-center identity types I’m not aware of) would find themselves with varying levels of welcome… ultimately revealed to be what’s in their hearts and what’s truly best for them etc
I imagine there would be some infallible sense (Lasso of Truth style) that would detect and reject insincere trans-women [acknowledging the anti-trans types’ fears]; I further imagine reference being made that Themyscira has never once detected one…
I’m not entirely convinced they lack the skill, but the will is definitely lacking.
Not to minimize the real fear the people actually *IN* the fires are experiencing…
But there is a special kind of anxiety sitting here in Anaheim, looking NorthWest like “… you guys okay?😬”
Obligatory: to be fair… a lot of us get stuck doing that in normal cars too!
Still, hilarious and I won’t be in a self-driving car anytime soon (probably ever)
