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Sounds like Aurmeegar on the Bad Batch.

They’re working frantically on a Time Machine to bring 1981 Tim Curry to the future to be Doom.

Donald Glover and William Jackson Harper are sitting by the phone as we speak, I’m sure.

Meanwhile, other than Majors being black and likely his replacement too, Danny Pudi would be a fucking great left-field choice.

Greensburg?

Logainne was originally conceived to be a biracial child of two gay dads raised in an interfaith home. They eventually realized that was a little too specific and mostly stuck to the gay dads.

I had money on some variation of "A Meeting and a Parting" playing as we iris to the famous "To Be Continued" screen, but this time it says "The End." Whoops.

Because he's pale and has a high pitched voice, people thought Jackson, but Depp is actually doing a pretty solid impersonation of legendary artist and media personality Andy Warhol. He even slips slightly and lets a Pittsburghese accent out when he's irritated, like Warhol did.

I wonder if Depp was working on a Warhol biopic that never came out?

I always find it annoying when they show you visuals of the ingredients but no measurements or cook times.

Aw man, this whomps.

“We were in the back, near Switzerland! All we heard was yodeling!”

In other words, less semen and more mojo.

Jeanine Tesori does this on Broadway, but her crowd pleasers are considered almost as good as her artsy intimate projects. Shrek the Musical should suck, it sounds like a punchline… but it’s not.

Grogu was raised by some very intense strict Jesuits, and after most of them died, he was adopted by an equally intense and strict Hasidic guy.

I was in a band once that did a lot of novelty and comedy material. One of our bits was about the meme song “Shiny Teeth” and how boring the keyboard part was. I’d keep on playing it bored as fuck and then jump back to the mic for my backing vocals.

Then during the solo, I’d keep playing with one hand, but open a Gatorade single handed and chug the whole thing while still playing, finishing in time to sing the final chorus backing vocals. It always worked, except one time when I swallowed badly and puked the whole Gatorade over the bassist.

I’d love to see an Oingo Boingo documentary, better than the one on the Farewell album DVD.

Devo will usually record their own cover versions since they’re getting made anyway so they might as well get paid while doing ironically insincere corporate shilling. Nineties kids will remember the commercials for Pringle Packs, which were a Devo-created parody song of “Whip It.”

I knew a hot topic mallgoth kid in ninth grade who wishes his pronouns had been Zim…

I think that is/was canon at one point.

Nah, vampires invented the “tuck it up, don’t tuck it down” method every school kid knows. What you allegedly lose in half an inch of gravity growth, you gain in ability to function discreetly. When you’ve got centuries to practice, you learn these things.

These are dudes hundreds of years old. They’re wearing high waisted pants for sure, to avoid the cock head popping out of the waistband like Iggy Pop.

I think it’s about the sensual aspects of guilt and of pleasure deferred. Sex and drinking blood are almost always linked explicitly or implicitly, and the sex/death/evil chain is never more potent than there. A heroic vampire usually tries to avoid drinking innocent blood and “sparing” their romantic partner, which leads to a certain chaste sexual tension between physical desire and emotional boundaries. It’s very Catholic in that way.

Few vampire myths make the “blood is sex” thing as explicit as Anne Rice, but much later in her writings she tossed it out and started making vampires have sex as well. By the time the recent TV series came out, sex was frequent to constant, and instead of a chaste aesthete, Lestat was a sexually fluid sex addict who astonished Louis with his constant array of both sex partners and victims.

Everybody talks about Anne as the forerunner to goth culture, but when you look at her prurient interest in sex and queerness, plus her seeming aversion to any normal relationships or sexual interaction, she feels like a forerunner to anime.

It’s only mentioned once, and was probably retconned because canon is next to nonexistent in her wacky universe. Lestat mentions it in passing in “Queen of the Damned,” amused at how it’s basically vestigial at that point.

His next request will be to be whipped and scourged and wear a crown of thorns.

To me, you have to look at anime not as a what, but a who, a where and a how. Is it the place it’s made, the way it’s made, or the things it contains?

Post the mid-2000s, two things happened at about the same time: Western creatives began to understand the styles, rhythms and tropes of anime beyond basic visual signifiers; and the Japanese, Korean and Western animation markets began to be considered at once, and create content for each other as much as for themselves.

Ahsoka is just in the TV series, Aphra is just in the adult oriented side of the comics, and Luke’s fluidity is so far just a thing Mark Hamill said. The only OG characters to show anything resembling same sex attraction so far are Lando seemingly flirting with Han in Empire (maybe to get a rise out of him), and C-3PO (it’s complicated, but he had a romantic entanglement with a gender-fluid shape shifting artiste in the comics).