…oh right, i see it now: allan quatermain and the lost city of gold!..

…first time i heard ozzy playing in a grocery store twenty-five years ago, i knew my age had passed into history…

…the f*ck is that?..

…my 2ZZ-GE has been great; this is the first time i’ve read a complaint about the 1ZZ…

…i posit that jim shooter’s tenure fostered marvel’s second-most-successful creative run on the merits of editorial consistency, which has always been fundamental to marvel’s identity and success…

…i don’t think his pinnacle decade has been matched since, not in print…

…not until they file two doctors’ recommendations, a one-year waiting period, and two more notes from doctors…

…big boxes killed malls in the 2000s, the retail apocalypse killed big boxes in the teens, and covid put the nails in big retail’s coffin…

…powerhug!..

…handles about as well as a blimp, too…

…with uniformly-tessellating paper sizes, you’ll have cave geomorphs…

…never heard that specifically but fourty years ago my parents ambushed me with their pastor telling me that i’d go to hell for becoming vegetarian; something about god creating animals for exploitation and to reject that was forsaking his will…

…then they tackled me to the ground, pried my jaws open, and shoved chunks of chicken down my throat: nice people…

…you’ll put your eye out, kid…

…i give everyone i work with stickers when they do a good job, and they all go crazy for them: interns, bosses, the lot!..

…our CEO rolled his eyes at first and said they were patronising, then the entire staff catcalled him over it, so he changed his mind and loves getting stickers now, too…

^{(i think that’s half the reason why armed forces do ribbons)}

…industrial shredder: quick, efficient, good-enough for baby chickens, good enough for ICE agents…

…f*cking balls-out cartoon fascists…

…when i was growing up, my well-meaning parents pulled me aside to express their concern over a jewish friend dating a black friend; aghast at their comment, i immediately confronted them over its apparent racism, and they replied that they had nothing against it personally, but were instead concerned about what other people might think…

…they’re f*cking balls-out fascists fourty years later, and i want no part of them in my life…

…to anyone tempted to compromise their own best interests on behalf of what other people might think: don’t give them that kind of power over you, or they’ll drag you down in it…

…christians are f*cking evil and any good folks still riding that train need to debark and rebrand lest the be dragged into a hell of their own making…

…blue raspberry gatorade…

…what?..no, that’s blown HDPE: a translucent plastic bottle with syrup inside…