I was not surprised to read on Wikipedia that it made a profit while not scoring great reviews.

But what did surprise me was how much trouble it sounds like Universal had in making it. In retrospect, it seems like a total no-brainer.

It gave me the same vibe I used to get from watching Looney Toons as a kid - that it was referencing things so deeply rooted in the cultural zeitgeist of an earlier time that I felt the reference without ever having seen the original it was referencing.

They can sit in their hallowed halls and debate what that means after their grants are secure.

"What is a 'ducker'? Did they do something with ducks? Oh god, did they make hats out of ducks?!"

"They were a barbaric people, Jernau, anything is possible."

Good! I need the LRR brand of stupid after the week I've had.

But also, pay artists.

Sort of like how one of my students likes to shout "What the FAKK!" in response to nothing actually happening, "Black Friday" is starting to feel like a semantically void linguistic import. When "Black Friday" sales last over a week, what's even encoded in the name?

May as well call it "My Friday".

This week is a normal work week. Especially busy for me as I'm gearing up for final exams. But I'm still hearing about "Black Friday". In fact, I've been hearing about it so much I missed until just now that today was actually American Black Friday. I had forgotten it was a single day, not a season.

The story was dogshit and very very early 2000s aesthetic, but lately I find myself thinking of that creature more and more *for some reason*.

Not that I've tried, but I have to think it's hard to dramatically faint onto a gamer chair.

It probably directly corelates to the popularity of chaise lounges in drawing rooms to swoon onto.

I am jelly of your little islands. They look nice. What is in the view today?