…at a quick glance-scan, i though that third row under gen X read ‘starfleet’: did a double-take and was disappointed…

…i’ve claimed unemployment benefits a couple of times in the past four decades and the administrative burden was onerous-enough to substantially disrupt my liberty to look for work, the release of benefits delayed until i’d already found work the better part of a year later, and the benefits such a token pittance as to be eclipsed by interest on credit i used to make ends meet in the interim…

…i supect their fraud-prevention programs cost more to administer than the actual benefits they’re supposedly protecting…

…hah!..well that kind of superfandom commands my respect even if the material doesn’t earn it: dorks dorking-out over dorky things are always cool in my opinion…

…so, like, it was a walmart-exclusive live television broadcast?..

…i thought someone stuck googley-eyes on its closed eyelids…

…howdy-do, ladies…

…heck, may parents’ first litton microwave took three grown men to move and we barely managed at that…

…then the contractor installs some murdock ‘equal’ for your specified elkay LMABFTL8WSSK despite REJECTING the substitution and it drips like a sieve…

…oh right, i see it now: allan quatermain and the lost city of gold!..

…first time i heard ozzy playing in a grocery store twenty-five years ago, i knew my age had passed into history…

…the f*ck is that?..

…my 2ZZ-GE has been great; this is the first time i’ve read a complaint about the 1ZZ…

…i posit that jim shooter’s tenure fostered marvel’s second-most-successful creative run on the merits of editorial consistency, which has always been fundamental to marvel’s identity and success…

…i don’t think his pinnacle decade has been matched since, not in print…

…not until they file two doctors’ recommendations, a one-year waiting period, and two more notes from doctors…

…big boxes killed malls in the 2000s, the retail apocalypse killed big boxes in the teens, and covid put the nails in big retail’s coffin…

…powerhug!..

…handles about as well as a blimp, too…

…with uniformly-tessellating paper sizes, you’ll have cave geomorphs…

…never heard that specifically but fourty years ago my parents ambushed me with their pastor telling me that i’d go to hell for becoming vegetarian; something about god creating animals for exploitation and to reject that was forsaking his will…

…then they tackled me to the ground, pried my jaws open, and shoved chunks of chicken down my throat: nice people…

…you’ll put your eye out, kid…