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I definitely identified a range of classic movies from “Holy shit, I love this” to “I can appreciate this as Important Cinema but it’s not for me.”

In the first group I’ve got movies like Casablanca, The Philadelphia Story, and The Lion In Winter.

I recently watched La Dolce Vita, and that is very much in the second category. I can see how so many movie tropes came out of it but… it’s just a little bit too much for me.

It’s worth going back and checking out old movies because some of them are legitimately fun to watch, but it’s also okay to just acknowledge a movie’s contributions and move on.

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The story is in The Devil’s Storybook, by Natalie Babbitt.

Wallet. Phone. Keys…

Wait until Surf Dracula gets up on that surfboard.

Here’s Life Expectancy vs. Healthcare Expenditure, and there you can see Americans on average living about as long as people in Turkey or Poland while spending dramatically more than people in Germany or Switzerland.

So you’re saying that the Gulf Coast gives people bad credit?

/s

Draft horses: “Am I a joke to you?”

Like they say in the Altered State of Druggachusetts, “Only take what you can handle, and always know your dealer!”

There was another questionably real Trump tattoo and I had the same thought: is it more disturbing to think that a person would earnestly get such a tattoo, or that a person would pretend to get such a tattoo? Why in the world would they pretend that? To convince people that they are in fact gigantic morons? To manipulate someone even dumber into getting a real Trump face tattoo? It’s all very mysterious.

I think SMBC nailed it with All-Despising Baby Skull back in 2012. Make advertising as horrible as possible, then jack up the costs on making it go away.

If pictures of wet or featherless owls have taught me anything, that ample-looking sweater is almost entirely filled with stuffing.

I hear foxes screaming in my neighborhood sometimes. It sounds like a combination of shock and pain, like someone came up behind you and stabbed you with a fondue fork at a nice party.

I’m out here advocating for physical media in 2024, so it’s safe to assume that my tech has not advanced much beyond smashing rocks together and yelling at the moon.

Lest we forget

Things that lasted longer than the Confederacy:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)

The Nickelodeon run of You Can’t Do That On Television (1981-1990)

Tom Baker’s portrayal of The Doctor on Doctor Who (1974-1981)

The AMC Gremlin (1970-1978)

The Ford Pinto (1971-1980)

The reign of the Petronas Towers as the tallest buildings in the world (1998-2004)

The partnership of the Cookie Crisp Crook and his dog, Chip (1990-1997)

He wrote another one where an alien got drunk and wanted to have a conversation with a guy, but since the alien was out of “speaks alien language” pills instead he gave him a “messiah” pill, which happens to include the ability to speak all languages.

I made myself a mnemonic: WICK.

It stands for Wallet, Information device (phone), Cup (I have a habit of leaving my cup of coffee places), Keys.

It’s very helpful to stand at my front door think “WICK” and know, not just think, I’ve got all of my essentials.