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I'm a speculative fiction author.
The fortune cookie said I have a charming way with words.
I don’t sing. That’s the other guy.
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Can't wait to see the crowd reaction the first time these guys take the field.
Also, @redsox.com just stop for a few days, huh? Let us process this shit before you start hyping the new guys. We're not going to feel good about this anytime soon.
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You've never seen Aroldis Chapman close a game. That baby is crossing the plate at 102 mph.
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Solid moneyball thinking, there. Get on base.
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Maybe it's because I just got some bad news, but I'm an atheist, and I cannot stop laughing at that.
Here's the pitch... OMG IT'S A BABY!!!
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You people learned NOTHING from giving away Betts. You don't understand your fan base one goddamn bit if you expect us to support this trade.
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Enh. It's fine. Not bad, not great. Apart from "Bitch," there's not a whole lot here to rave about. There isn't a ton of variety, and it definitely feels like a product of its time. That's not a bad thing - sometimes a throwback is exactly what you want.
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All of a sudden, I'm 22 again.
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Holy shit, this album is even better than I remember it. It holds up amazingly well. There's definitely some Alanis influence (this came out 2 years after Jagged Little Pill), but it absolutely has its own thing going on. So good.
Also, this is giving me life today:
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Still one song to go, but I doubt it'll sway me much. Tarzan Boy is a fun song, almost a novelty song, but the rest of the album is pretty forgettable. It's not that it isn't good, but that it sounds a lot like all the other synth-pop music from the mid-80s.
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But, it was an *excellent* album.
I made a conscious effort years ago to stop saying funny things are "hysterical." Makes no sense, both linguistically and etymologically. Forced myself to say "hilarious" instead, and now it's a habit.
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Pretty good album. Very, very 80s. A few tracks were like, "Is this... the Bangles?" - mostly because of the vocals. Aimee Mann's bass is fantastic. The title track almost feels out of place, like it belongs on a less poppy record. Probably won't spend much time with it after today, though.
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The original meaning of "woke," before it was twisted by the opposition, was simply empathy. It was shorthand for people who were awake - "woke" - to the ideas of fairness, equality, and empathy.
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Every time someone says Hollywood is all liberals, I'm like... okay, the actors, in general, maybe? But the executives are running billion-dollar operations, and they run as far right as any other person running a billion-dollar operation.
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I like to think he goes to Vegas every now and then to stock up on casino-used cards.
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I mean, I'm glad his whole summer isn't ruined. Still, I can't help but wonder about the efficacy of Texas's version of summer school.
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The trailers haven’t told us the name of the film. You’re not gonna pull a Thunderbolts on us and reveal it’s actually called “New Justice Gang” are you?
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My Samsung fridge - which wasn’t cheap - has a faulty ice maker less than 2 years after purchase. It constantly freezes over and we have to take a hair dryer to it. I later learned that oh yeah, it’s a known problem. People just have to deal with it.
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What if you offer to spin them a yarn?
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Is it weird that I like the 3-panel preview Bluesky shows just a hair better than the full strip?
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whats a andor?
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*gasp*! How DARE you!? 😎
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BS. I live in a suburb of Houston, and there are literally, LITERALLY, tens of thousands of migrants walking up and down my street every morning. They're all singing songs in a weirdo language that's NOT ENGLISH and trying to eat the neighborhood cats. The immigrant invasion is totally real.
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Correct. That was Superman's Pal, Perry White.
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Oh, you mean like communism?
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Tori Amos has covered dozens and dozens of songs over the years, and that was one of them. Stripping it down gives it a whole new vibe.
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I'm a sucker for covers outside the original genres. This is a good one I came across recently. I don't know about "second best," but it's quite good.
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The guys in the booth tonight verified that Marcelo got that ball back and that he's going to give it to his dad. That's great!
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I don't know... I mean... we could skip leg day at the gym, right? Sit on the bowl, get swol? Isn't that how the saying goes?
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It’s only a matter of time before they kill a protester and I’m honestly terrified thinking about what comes after that.
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Looks like the crowd was trying to tell whoever got the ball to throw it back. Do we know if Marcelo will get the ball?
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Which bill? The big one? The beautiful one?
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I had a character undergo a ritual stabbing, and I consulted my wife, a nurse, to determine exactly where on his upper body I could impale him with a big ol' spike lol
Turns out there's a pretty good spot that'll miss all the important stuff.
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I’m animated in the Hanna-Barbera Super Friends style, no question.