Why Is This The Hottest Thing I've Ever Seen

Highlights from last night's 1 AM jackbox game:

(in a comic about bird watchers) "how can you tell it's a __?" " The fear in its eyes."

"what's another use for a melon baller?" "Eyeballs."

"What's a way to react to being pulled over by a cop in a small town?" "DAD?!"

In Trivia Murder Party, I was the only one who knew where the 2010 Winter Olympics were held (it's Vancouver) and the only answer I gave when my friends wondered why I knew that was "I'm Canadian."

A t-shirt with the caption "It's one of those Kaiju lookin motherfuckers." paired with a poorly drawn face.

A gingerbread man labelled "Nepotism"

A buff Toad from Mario labelled "Dad"

I don't remember what the picture was but the caption was "Hubris"

It might have been a badly drawn squidward

Another one was labelled "Noot-Nooy"

"Deoe for president 2020"

Someone literally drew Nyan cat

"Hey Tod? What the fuck."

A poorly drawn gun labeled "Gun"

Keep seeing posts in solidarity with the WGA strike that say things like “no one cares about your favorite shows” and “fuck your tv show. I hope it gets canceled” and while I understand and agree with the underlying sentiment, which is clearly “Real people are more important than fictional ones, you dipshit” I don’t like the framing because, well, it feels shitty to dismiss the importance of the work made by the workers we’re trying to defend.

No one cares about your favorite shows more than the writers do.

No one understands the power and importance of tv and film more than the writers who created them.

No one loves tv, movies, games, and stories more than the people who fought tooth and nail in an incredibly competitive and underpaid profession for the chance to be part of it.

They know it’s important. They know it changes lives. They know it can be more than just a story, more than just a bit of entertainment. They’ve loved and respected this medium, continue to love and respect this medium, more than you ever will.

The person who wants a show to get canceled the least is the writer who poured their everything into making it good.

TV and movies are great, actually, and you are not wrong to be invested and care about them. That’s what the writers gave you. That’s what the writers wanted when they wrote it. That’s why they wrote it.

Which is why we respect them when they make the call that this strike and its demands are worth risking it.

The people on that picket line do not want their shows canceled. They want to keep writing them. They can’t, not under the current conditions.

So we accept the risk with them and support them.

But I don’t want to berate the power and importance of their work, the value they put into it and the love they have for it, in the same breath that I am defending their strike. Worthy shows will likely get canceled or derailed and that will be a tragedy worth mourning. The writers know that better than anyone.

So when they say something else is even more important, we listen. And when your favorite show gets ruined, you make sure your fully justified anger and grief is pointed in the right direction - at the CEOs who killed it.

sunrise on lake erie, 22/06/2024

dni: harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie ray, south pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio, joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, television, north korea, south korea, marilyn monroe, rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjom, brando, “the king and i” and “the catcher in the rye”, eisenhower, vaccine, england’s got a new queen, marciano, liberace, santayana, goodbye, joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofiev, rockefeller, campanella, communist blog, roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacro, dien bien phu falls, “rock around the clock”, einstein, james dean, brooklyn’s got a winning team, davy crockett, peter pan, elvis presley, disneyland, bardot, budapest, alabama, krushchev, princess grace, peyton place, trouble in the suez, little rock, pasternak, mickey mantle, kerouac, sputnik, chou en-lai, “bridge on the river kwai”, lebanon, charles de gaulle, california baseball, starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide, buddy holly, ben hur, space monkey, mafia, hula hoops, castro, edsel is a no-go, u2, syngman rhee, payola and kennedy, chubby checker, psycho, belgians in the congo, hemingway, eichmann, “stranger in a strange land”, dylan, berlin, bay of pigs invasion, “lawrence of arabia”, british beatlemania, ole miss, john glenn, liston beats patterson, pope paul, malcolm x, british politician sex, jfk, birth control, ho chi minh, richard nixon back again, moonshot, woodstock, watergate, punk rock, begin, reagan, palestine, terror on the airlane, ayatollah’s in iran, russian in afghanistan, “wheel of fortune”, sally ride, heavy metal suicide, foreign debts, homeless vets, aids, crack, bernie goetz, hypodermics on the shore, china’s under martial law, rock and roller, cola wars, and finally: if you didn’t start the fire

The Randomizer

AND HERE COME MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE WITH A STEEL CHAIR

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

The three genders according to Sonic Temple:

• Sun King

• Fire Woman

• American Horse

the grip retrofuturism has over me is unreal, I want to live in this future.

all artwork by charles schridde for motorola / 1961