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I’m imagining it told as a horror story for the monsters. Every time the people do something right, the monsters are like “dammit!” And maybe the boss monster is like “if you can’t meet your monstering quota, you’re finished!” and the people have no idea anything is happening.
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We should write this movie together, Esther. It should star the fabulous cast of the io9 Show and a certain fetching young actor who is writing this comment. Clearly, Pepper’s Ghost and explosions are about to occur. Read more

Maybe a goofus and gallant version where you see one group obey, and one group doesn’t, and at the end, the first group is like “why do you guys look so ragged? why are half of you missing. This was not a difficult thing to do. They even gave us rules.”
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my mother was one of the babies in ny she was born in Cincinnati ohio in 1933 her dr was dr couney my aunt Helen was the one that took her up there most of the babies came from very poor folks and he saved her life with the incubator. each baby had a name bracelet and my mothers is at a museum in ny Read more

Jamie's comments were stupid. But this is somewhat amusing to me. Read more

Shared this with a friend from across the country who actually works at a comics shop and also happens to be black, and has many amusing stories about casual nerd racism. He had a pretty good comment I'm going to paraphrase here.

Him: "Okay, so if my shop had a room that everyone called 'dead nigger storage', think Read more

Hey I used to live walking distance from this store they were a bunch of jerks and we would drive out of our way to get to a different store. Good to know we were right all those years ago. Read more

It's whatever makes you feel bad about your own body. Read more

No. No. No. Stop excusing the inexcusable. Just because we don't cohabitate with corpses anymore is no excuse for this behavior. If they can't grasp the "real processes of death" and that "there is a real corpse and real grief left behind," then they are assholes. Our "physical and emotional ritual" with death IS the Read more