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... asked on the WHAT? I know JD Vance has been on Theo Von but this somehow seems even more low rent than that-- Theo Von at least funny, and/or has Shane Gillis's phone number (maybe).

If you watch personal finance Youtube, those Diary of a CEO videos get recommended a lot. It's this young black kid who asks these old-ass creepy dudes and elegant ladies for their "secrets" to being rich, and then it's 3am and you're watching some 80 year old Indian guy talking about how "money is effort minus emotion plus time divided by the future" and nodding and saying to your sleep-deprived dying brain "my man onto something there."

I saw a few minutes of one with an AI lady talking hyper-confident about how 'it's not just about understanding AI but understanding what the world will look like after AI, which means understanding the future but also the past, Elon Musk told me so', or whatever, and the comment section was just people talking about how she'd driven her hedge fund into the ground, bad investment after bad investment, just a total hype-schmuck.

Vice-president's a pretty lame position in the government, cool-wise, but come on, it's still gotta be more prestigious than having that one guy on Youtube run up to you and say "I'll pay you a $100 to make me dinner." Like, doesn't there there still have to be some standards...? Some standards for that guy who pays people $100 to make him dinner-- no way JD can throw down a decent meal; I like that $100 kid too much for that life.

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Trailer for John Mulaney's comedy tour.

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We ALL wonder that. But it's not polite to ask. Not if you want to live in a society anyways.

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Trump endorses Iran having ballistic missiles: "I'm saying that if other countries have them, it's a little unfair for them not to have some."

Hahaha, hell yeah, man. Let's gooooooo! The last time I agreed with the President of the United States was probably when Obama talked about Marvel's Conan comics being pretty good. Or wait, that was second-to-last. (X)

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Hmm. Well, I think Root's probably top 5, especially right now with him so much fun to watch on Widow's Bay. There's John Goodman, JK Simmons and John Carrol Lynch-- I think I'd rank them slightly ahead, especially after Lynch's part in Sorry Baby. (I wish people were finding better things for JK Simmons to be doing lately, but). I'm always happy when Stephen Henderson turns up, or of course Stephen Tobolowsky, of course, but I'd put them behind Root, maybe. Keith David, shit, maybe #1..? Keith David's tough competition for any of these guys, just on a pure "oh hey, they're in this??" level. Actresses, CCH Pounder turned up in a bad TV show I saw over the weekend; I don't think of Christine Baranski or Parker Posey as "character actors" but if they were; Joan Cusack just doesn't work much anymore, even if she's in Toy Story 5 this weekend. In terms of sheer happiness to see them, Joan Cusack high on that list, man... (X)

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From an essay about Ryoko Yamagishi's Arabesque (1971):

What’s remarkable is how Yamagishi works within the typical shojo constraints to produce a story that is almost obsessive in its discussion of the dancing presented and lyrical in its visual telling of that dancing. I’ve never seen a manga so intensely focussed on dancing. Like, the actual dance part of dancing. Page after page after page lovingly depicts ballerinas in the middle of grand jetés, pirouettes and attitudes shown in a series of overlapping figures in slightly different position. And you can tell that Yamagishi loves ballet. There is such beauty in her ballerinas, such tenderness in the lines of their exaggeratedly long legs. And she never fails to explain a ballet term to her reader, giving us the details on a variety of classic ballets and their significance to ballet in general.

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I'm having a really nice time with Kyoko Okazaki's Pink lately, which I'm reading slowly, the ebook sitting in the Apple Store. It's about an escort (who also has an office job), her family, her pet, this guy she gets involved with, them colliding around. It's from 1989 so it's about money, basically-- there's a kind of 80's punk disconnected-feeling to it that I think makes for a real comic. (It's considered a classic apparently of its genre, but I don't much about anything, josei or whatever genre it's considered a part of).

Okazaki's more famous for Helter Skelter which I remember seeing only a little of (it's one I want to circle back to and finish) but as being way, way more intense, more De Palma or Polanski or somebody, more horror-- this is just loose, a lively sort of character piece/comedy-soap, more new wave, though I don't know which new wave, exactly, just "generally new wave". Stories about young people with anomie fucking always = a new wave somewhere on the planet or another.

Okazaki's line is really free, even compared to what I've seen of her later works-- it's pouring out of her. That's always a fun plus for me, when someone can make that feel organic to the work/their-voice instead of just sloppy / a-skill-issue. I guess the obvious comparison point for her line (besides fashion illustration) would be Feiffer, but you know, that feels a little easy to say; or Penelope Bagieu and that era of French blog-based comics artists, I guess, but Bagieu's interests are so different, more wholesome or historical-- Okazaki seems angrier, though in a fun way, not in a take-a-vacation way.

Okazaki's a sort of tragic figure because she was very impressive to her readers, or she just seems pretty singular, very of her time, but then her career got cut short due to severe injuries she sustained. She's still alive but not working in 20 years, while that talented-- it's tough to hear about. Still, for a 13 year career, she really belted out some winners that do seem to manage to linger before that happened. There's a video essay about her here; a better write-em-up here.

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"Weird ramble about the Scooby Doo universe timeline. But we know Scooby doo takes place in the 1960s during the original series which is roughly 100 years after the Civil War ended. We learn in "A night of fright is no delight" Scooby saved a very rich Colonel for drowning and that Colonel was in the Civil War based upon his Civil War items the gang stumble across. In order to have died in the 1960s and have been old enough to fight in the Civil War (even super young) he would have still been 100+ years old. Now in the movie the Boo Brothers which is from the 80s and takes place after the main series Shaggys Uncle passes away right before the beginning of the movie and was most definitely a Confederate soldier judging by his ghosts uniform and War stuff found by gang. Putting his uncle (not even great uncle) at the youngest 115-135 years old. This leads to so many questions for me like why are there so many Confederate soliders in or mentioned in Scooby doo? Do people just live longer in Scooby doo? Is it a different Civil War and happened later?"

Scooby Dooby Doo: WHEN are you?

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Even if the sun is shining and you can see the beach in the horizon, you’re never 100% free from flashbacks to Charlie’s Angels 2. They went full throttle— we’re none of us safe.

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Damn, the asian grocery took one look at me and called their shot like Babe Ruth. Dr. Ruth saw your blue-ribbon boy coming from a mile away.

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“We’ve got a Morgan Stanley banker who’s doing change in their neighborhood.”

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i tried explaining to this girl at a party once how i could be gay and asexual at the same time and it basically boils down to never being into anyone but like once a year i’ll find a man attractive. and she was like “so what am i if i only like girls, and i’ve never found any of my boyfriends attractive and and i just wanna do cocaine all the time?” i was like “you’re a lesbian with a coke addiction?” and she was like “woooooah”. she broke up with her boyfriend that night and had a threesome with two girls in the bathtub. rebecca if you’re out there, i hope you’re going places. well, not far, since you’re electronically tagged. but spiritually.

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Another one for "objectively funny crimes should not be punished"

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