Ooh, next year you can do a 10 year version of this classic. Actually it would be cool to do a Gabe and Tycho in 2037 looking back at 2007. I always enjoy your “future selves” predictions (didn’t you make them fish in bowls with robot legs once?) www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2017/0...
That’s a good point, it didn’t have the occasional mean streaks that the Roald Dahl and Frank Baum books have.
Oh yeah, Wind in the Willows was powerful, Mr. Toads Wild Ride was my favorite ride at Disneyland. This conversation is taking me back. I remember A Cricket in Times Square, Frog and Toad, The Mouse and the Motorcycle… I think Mark Twain might have been my breakout, Roughing It amazes me as a kid.
I remember The Phantom Toll Booth made a big impression on me. I had an active imagination as a kid and the thought of setting up a portal to another world yourself (as apposed to discovering one in a closet or something) was powerful. It added agency to the adventure.
Yeah, I read Marnia and then LotR around that age and my mom loaned me Crystal Caves and Wizards of Earthsea and a friend loaned me the first Dragon Riders of Pern book, I don’t think I finished any of them. I did enjoy the Deryni series and Paksenarrion though
Nice! Yeah the Phantom Toll Booth, James and the Giant Peach, the Oz books and a Wrinkle in Time. Really weird stuff for kids looking back at it. I went through the Oz, Narnia LotR pipeline, though my dad did interject Frank Herbert, Larry Niven and Asimov in there. I need to read some Scott
I completely agree with you, gendering literature is reductive.
Out of curiosity what literature did you like growing up? I had the Hardy Boys pushed on me and they were okay until the formula became too obvious, around book 4.
Yes, that was my thought too, even the way he trails off his sentences is very Warburton-ish.
Thanks!
Exactly, saying people are getting someone’s labor “for free” is claiming the farmers are not getting paid, which is not at all true, no one is working for free in this scenario.
Also, who is this guy, I’d like to subscribe to him. And not just because his voice is like a warm blanket.
Or is that Twasp? Potentially!
Did Vance spend the entire 21 hours demanding they say “thank you”?
I did this in my head too
Exactly. Like, I wonder, does he know the gold statue on top isn’t him?
“And she smiled her rapturous smile.” Just after verbally stabbing someone.
Yeah, I might have to read this. 😁
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.” — Mark Twain
Probably should test the quality of that steel.
This administration is definitely the kind of villain that’s so vain that they monologue about their “awesome”plans at length to their enemies.
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Man, I’ve got so many useless keys in my junk drawers, a weapon that fires them could be useful.
A cartoon bat from Penny-Arcade 4/1/22 is saying “you believe this fucking guy” completely out of context.
The bat from 4/1/22 has some thoughts 🤣
The Onion should report legitimate news all day tomorrow and see if anyone notices.
Raul Julia’s Gomez wasn’t as canonically correct as the current Wednesday’s depiction. But damn, it was awesome, and he died far too young, there should have been more Adams Family films with him.
2/2 they went further right, bringing in the evangelicals, the neocons, libertarians. The Tea Party was a result of that. But this uncomfortable alliance can’t keep a majority vote, and more importantly, can’t govern. They either seize power now, or they get marginalized, and they know it.
1/2 This is why the right is in the position it is, they have to seize power by force now, or loose it for the next few decades. Back in after Regan era they realized they were loosing the numbers, the general populace was leaning left, but rather than try and be more populist to attract voters…
I was playing some table top sci-fi rpg, Traveler I think, and I’d hacked an enemy ships computer and the DM asked me what I wanted to do.
I said, “Kill the inertia dampeners.”
He got this horrified expression, then decided a safety system killed the engines at the same time, saving the crew.
Not entirely. They legitimately thought they could turn CBS into another Fox News and uncover an underserved population of conservatives. The huge drop in viewership was not part of the plan and they aren’t happy about it. Not that that’ll change course, they’d rather kill it completely.
No! We don’t want the displaced lurching through other social networks looking for another cesspool.
They have justification, the detention center made a bunch of money. The for-profit companies running the centers are making record profits. Follow the money.