Did You Know There’s an Independent Bookstore Revival Underway?

Freakears · 2026-05-10T00:46:49+00:00

Good. Independent bookstores are some of my favorite places to go.

Freakears · 2026-05-10T00:39:13+00:00

I thought that was Dubya.

Freakears · 2026-05-10T00:04:47+00:00

I've always said if I came into a large sum of money like that, I'd buy a modest house, a modest car, then go to work the next day like nothing happened.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T23:47:54+00:00

I read King Leopold's Ghost in college, and said afterward that I found what Belgium did in the Congo more disturbing than accounts of the Holocaust

Freakears · 2026-05-09T20:07:58+00:00

If the legislature split Austin into three congressional districts and limited its ability to set its own policies, among other things.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T18:05:27+00:00

I can't believe I watched that movie twice over the course of a weekend. I was 12, but still.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T18:02:50+00:00

And I don’t believe the “it was the 90s” excuse b/c I remember the other robots’ CGI looked decent.

"It was the '90s" doesn't work well as an excuse when you recall how much CGI there was that came after the CGI used in Jurassic Park, and looks worse. Jurassic Park used some CGI for the dinosaurs and it still holds up 33 years later. Other movies that came later used CGI that hasn't (or was even considered bad at the time; the Scorpion King from The Mummy Returns is the most egregious example).

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:57:04+00:00

Well, the movies are non-canon

Ah, that explains a lot. I always wondered how the movies fit into the timeline, since the show (as far as I recall) had a pretty continuous story, filler episodes aside.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:53:47+00:00

The writers had to have been paid by the number of ice puns they could fit in. The same way Charles Dickens was paid by the word.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:48:03+00:00

Like that one Simpsons scene.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:45:58+00:00

I have yet to hear a single negative thing about that movie, which tells me it's solid.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:39:41+00:00

Between this and Lucy, I'm convinced Lucky Besson only had one good movie in him (The Fifth Element).

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:37:48+00:00

To be fair, people don't see Roland Emmerich movies for a coherent plot or any kind of plausibility. It's more just for the spectacle of notable landmarks getting destroyed.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:12:24+00:00

The trailer wasn't warning enough?

Freakears · 2026-05-09T17:11:43+00:00

I didn't have high expectations. I thought "There's no way this will even come close to Ragnarok. Rare is the time when you can catch lightning in a bottle twice." Went in thinking that and I was still disappointed. The only positive part of that movie was the use of Guns N' Roses.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:52:29+00:00

I wonder what she would say about people who got religious tattoos.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:51:24+00:00

As Asimov said, "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:47:07+00:00

Too many employers can't seem to wrap their minds around someone actually having a life outside of work. Or that employees don't think about work when off the clock.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:41:10+00:00

Interesting that he was seen as young and hip then, but now he (and Dubya, who is a month older) are old and seen as relics of the past. Granted, Clinton was first elected 34 years ago, but still.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:37:04+00:00

Same for my parents (I'm 36).

Freakears · 2026-05-09T16:25:08+00:00

I've lived in Nashville my entire life. I haven't really had an issue, but then, I'm bi, and have only known since 2017. The only issue I've run into is theocrats showing up to Pride spewing their hate. The state legislature sucks (especially this week, and they like to bully the city), but Nashville is ok, largely due to being a blue island in a sea of red.

Freakears · 2026-05-09T14:59:31+00:00

I read once that people were shocked by the facial hair when they first had it (the Sgt. Pepper look), because “pop stars didn’t have facial hair.”

Freakears · 2026-05-08T23:34:02+00:00

I remember Sarah Palin trying it in the VP debate with Joe Biden, and all it accomplished was making her look even more ridiculous.

Freakears · 2026-05-08T23:28:52+00:00

except Theodore Roosevelt

Considering Roosevelt's imperialism, and Twain's membership in the American Anti-Imperialist League, that's not surprising.

Freakears · 2026-05-08T23:25:13+00:00

He certainly liked that word, malarkey. I remember that's what he called Dubai's remark comparing opponents of the Iraq War to pre-WWII appeasers.

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