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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Genuinely thinking of doing a podcast about the spate of weird, almost immediately canceled, prime time cartoons that followed in the wake of The Simpsons season one. Producers greenlighting everything they could while not understanding why early Simpsons worked.

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The best joke of Jason Aaron’s Thor run is the first big villain fighting three time travel versions of Thor and telling him he should have brought more Thors and then years later those same three Thors show up to fight the final big bad guy except this time they bring Jane Foster Thor too.

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Rear Window but everyone is isolating and spying on everyone else.

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Playing Alan Wake 2 and my big takeaway so far is I should have figured out what was up with Mayor Setter a few hours earlier.

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I don’t even play the game but I am looking forward to however the next Grand Theft Auto savages this car.

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“Whoever holds this hammer, if he be Worthy, shall possess the power of Thor (note: Do not strike hard surfaces with Mjolnir)

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Beginning to think that a car company that makes a product that appeals mostly to liberal consumers having its CEO go rabidly far right at very moment every other carmaker starts directly competing with it may not have been a brilliant business decision. qz.com/tesla-elon-m...

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I would like to curse Will Shortz and the NYT crossword for making me think about Kokomo this late at night. That song that single-handedly kept me from realizing how great The Beach Boys were for thirteen years.

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I mean ‘Fuck Elon’ is one of the consistent corporate messages of Tesla/SpaceX but usually the conversation involves horses.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Say what you will about the production differences between the UK and US Kitchen Nightmares, but after years of constant over-emphasizing everything with sound effects and background music it makes the moment when they all go silent at the end of Amy’s Baking Company hit like a ton of bricks.

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I think it’s a good personality test for whether you would rather end Abbey Road with ‘Her Majesty’, the goofy hidden track about getting Queen Elizabeth turnt, or ‘The End’, the musically brilliant little poem where everyone gets a solo.

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Emotional maturity is realizing that’s it’s okay to lower the Alan Wake 2 from Normal to Story because 1) I don’t have time for this and 2) it’s called ‘Story’ and isn’t that just another narrative meta level to this whole thing? sm.ign.com/ign_nordic/r...

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I really love the moments in the later sections of David Copperfield where David has to offhandedly add that his latest books were smash hits and that he’s a celebrity now. And that’s before he is about to drop his version of Dicken’s first actually good book- Nicholas Nickleby.

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James Cameron pitching a sequel to a bunch of Hollywood suits- writing Alien on a blackboard, adding an ‘S’ so it reads ‘Salien,’ then adding a line so it’s now ‘$alien.’

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You can say that you’re tired of being told this is The Most Important Election Of Our Lives, but the reality is that preventing a coup is going to take overwhelming numbers of votes for the foreseeable future and if you aren’t willing to vote all the time you have to be ready for The Consequences.

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i need to find some way to write about this as the election approaches

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The legislature doesn't have a role in deciding the election. The voters do. Any legislator who attempts to overturn the election result should be arrested.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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I was honestly expecting a Paper Luigi before another M and L.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Also the only Turtles book I own are the Usagi Yojimbo crossovers and I should correct that sometime.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Again, I bought TNMT action figures of Usagi Yojimbo and Jack Kirby at Target last month. The legacy of that franchise is ridiculous.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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But I always wonder what modern pop culture would be like if Frank Miller in the 1980s hadn’t been mugged in NYC by 19 ninjas.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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For sure- taking in parodic elements from other big comics of the days (Teen Titans, New Mutants, etc) and their storytelling craftsmanship keeps it from just being a tossed off Mad Magazine parody.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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I have probably only seen five total minutes of Willie Mays footage but man, those five minutes. Imagine being one of the 5.3% of voters who did not make him a first round Hall of Famer. I try not to immediately assume racism but it was Willie Mays!

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“All of Willie Mays’ accomplishments were actually done by this rich guy who went to my school decades ago. If you look at the seventeenth word of every other year’s baseball card you will see the proof!”

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ArtButMakeItSports's avatar ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social
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Spiritual, by Charles White, 1941, 📸 by Frank Hurley

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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I remember reading the first trade of The Tick as a young fan of the cartoon and only realizing why there were ninjas everywhere years later when I read the early Miller Daredevil. People loved to parody that stuff.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Look, as a brilliant business man he knows that if you get into debt your only choice is to buckle down, work hard, and have your father buy millions of dollars in casino chips.

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Phil Plait's avatar Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social
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Holy moly. This needs to be blasted on every medium the youths watch. And their parents. Seriously.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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You take the cool new thing in comics, riff on it, it gets sanitized, merchandise out over decades and hey- you just start taking a name like ‘The Foot Clan’ for granted.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Oh I did not mean money=success unless you want to go down the whole 80s creators rights rabbit hole. I mostly meant that the parody got exposure to a degree that no one could ever think possible and where you now need to point out what it was originally a parody of. Sorry to get crass.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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I mean that franchise got so wild that I could find Turtle-branded action figures of Usagi Yojimbo and Jack fricking Kirby at Target last month.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Yeah, but in the end the guys who made the most money and cultural impact off of Frank Miller’s gritty comics were some guys who made fun of it.

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Angelo Zanola's avatar Angelo Zanola @angelozanola.bsky.social
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Actually he prefers this photoshop because it makes it look like he has a katana.

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