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Forrest Squirrel
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Trapped in a world he never made! [GNU Steve Gerber]

Never invest cathectic energy in politicians.

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Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Drop something white.

TRS: 1999
November 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Space: 1999 Caption Contest
November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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the market does not seem to believe subsidies will be ended
November 2, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Did someone say 1970s
an old chart illustrating that the public share of gdp in 2015 was 1/3 what it was in 1973
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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October 29, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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apt coincidence
October 5, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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The Duck of Organization is happy with you!
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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um
September 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Mark Twain was a mugwump.
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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surely the error on the chart did not result from bias that the dems ought to rank higher on violence
September 16, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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books.google.com couldn't find that for me, but it did find some interesting commentary on tariffs in the Congressional Record of 1894.
books.google.com/books?id=KH3...
September 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Argh, wrong program!
frame of SPACE 1999 Season Two in which, per the closed captioning, Maya and Dr Russell confront intelligent pasta
September 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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My pet Rover in its incubator.
September 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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With help of course!
September 13, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Victor Bergman really held the place together. #1999-09-13
September 13, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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After being replaced as Captain, Decker meets V.I.N.CENT.
September 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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September 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Because of the specialized knowledge computer music still demands, work in the field is just beginning to emerge. But Max Matthews sees a more democratic if distant future: “Today the computer is something like the car in the 20s; it is fine to fool around with but you wouldn't want your wife and kids to use it. All this will change. Computers will be smaller, cheaper, more available. Compositional rules will be built into them. They will be used as performing instruments and become commonplace in the average American's home. A tired plumber, after a hard day's work, will settle down with his computer to compose music.”
September 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Naught here either. Also, I may be offended
September 5, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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♪ For every plot beat (churn, churn, churn)
There is a repeat (churn, churn, churn)
But never a sense of purpose
to the franchise
2000 words of alt-text! A story — outlined completely, if vaguely — told in serially crosses many intersections with time. If an installment is due but the story did not cooperate, the author fills the gap with verbal spackle. For final publication as a unit that spackle can be removed with other defects. A multi-volume story is more problematic; each book is polished, but the series is first draft. Even so, the artist's idea was brought to fruition, however bruised and blemished. If literature consists of an artist taking philosophical argument with the universe, illustrating premises and working them through to a conclusion, then even if flawed, that has been achieved. By contrast, the franchised serial is not, or has ceased to be, an author's idea or argument; it is simply an entity designed to fill indefinite intersections of Story and Time: the soap opera that never resolves, the comic book kaleidoscopically iterating combinations of fixed ingredients, the mystery box series that adds new mysteries to distract from the fraudulent puzzle at its heart. The most it can be expected to provide is mere entertainment. Conclusion is anathema. Why then The Franchise, rather than new and original entertaining works? Stability. Audience and profit are acquired reliably through lack, or simulation, of change, because surprises are unpleasant. (The sub-audience that enjoys change moves on.) Management, though, changes over time, and believes that "a professional manager can manage anything". When shopping for replacement writers, those whose last projects "succeeded" are chosen — on the numbers, even when their "skills" had little to do with those numbers, and have nothing to do with the current project. Example result: JJ Abrams's Star Wars, which did ±$7 billion at the box office worldwide but is still regarded as having dealt a huge injury to The Franchise — because JJ fundamentally didn't know how to do what he was hired to do by people who didn't know what it even was.
September 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Alas!
Funk-O-Mart is permanently closed.
August 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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August 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM