Classroom I was working in had a copy of Vineland so I read the first half today, (I read it ~15 years ago) really good, mostly not like One Battle After Another except a few plot points/direct quotes. Chapter where a punk band pretends to be Italian to play a mob wedding very funny
If memory serves the guy being an asshole in the comments of Elijah's obit is also weird about me posting comments on other TCJ articles, just a person whose psychology is best not speculated upon
Cover is the only colored thing, it is the image that's been floating around, it's not the best but the guts are great. Feels like it's for people who know Pope and have heard of THB more than it's meant to grab new readers but c'est la 2025
Got a review copy in the mail of Paul Pope's Total THB volume 1, and as someone who tracked down the original issues: they didn't fuck it up, it looks really good. B+W, none of it's redrawn, it's issues 1-4 minus backups and essays, rescanned and it looks great, lettering's a little cleaner
If you are wearing a t-shirt for a podcast in public you deserve to be pranked. I didn't know I believed this until I did it on accident, but it just makes sense
Recommended Saint Jack (on Tubi) to a woman wearing a "Polly Platt"/You Must Remember This t-shirt. Research reveals she did not work on that film. That I took the chance to mansplain (with incorrect info) Peter Bogdanovich is a really funny bit and I regret nothing
It's funny how the economy is currently being kept afloat by AI investment, because the people using AI to generate porn they're addicted to and giving themselves erectile dysfunction are a precursor to themselves becoming a metaphor
Saw someone whose work I already knew I didn't like and whose personality in a social context I already thought was annoying give a reading and it was like a perfect storm of being so insufferable I wanted to stab my own eyes out
I wouldn't say "when i'm fucked up that's the real me" but when I think I am being so funny but I am potentially being rude/mean/inappropriate that's the real me
You take one of those reusable water bottles with the big straw and you take the straw out and flip the lid upside down and put in the kitchen sink to wash, then go do something else, and to the untrained eye of your roommate, it looks like you're washing a fleshlight in the kitchen sink
Wrote about a few of the comics i got at the Philly Comics Expo yesterday over at arecomicsevengood.tumblr.com, the first few I read and liked anyway, got enough my reading should continue for a few days to come
This is maybe just a coincidence but whenever I get phone calls from some police organization asking for money they ask"is Roberta there?" Maybe it's a name attributed to numbers they don't have real info on
