speaking as someone who used to build and remodel houses, very few can afford "artisan" quality work. it's still out there, it's just rare. probably always was tbh. it's not that nobody knows how to do it, or nobody wants it, it's just that that's rich people shit.
Thessaly is a selfish asshole, and George is a dead, evil asshole, but I think it's easy to read this as a scene in which the villain, on the ropes, imparts some ugly Truth with which our hero must then wrestle. Fact attack, or something. This is a common trope in anime, especially.
right? that's another thing. often as not, someone frantically gesturing for me to go ahead looks, from outside their car, completely indistinguishable from someone putting the finishing touch on a text message with their foot already resting lightly on the gas pedal.
it's true. i try to take it as it's intended, and it sure beats the coal-rolling brodozer trying to side swipe me off the road, but as politely as i try to decline, it tends to go from "generous" to "FURIOUS at what an ASSHOLE i am to reject their GIFT" in about 4 seconds.
everybody thinks "time assassins would never come after me!" waving someone ahead when it's not their turn feels like holding the door for them, but as you negotiate a new legal code using only gestures and facial expressions, you get tunnel vision. neither of you sees the oncoming bus.
I'm 45 and I got completely burned out on constant, neverending outrage during the GWB administration. Can't do it anymore. It was noted at the time that that was exactly the plan of guys like Bannon, but knowing doesn't help.
Some years ago a guy I knew gave up a serious music career to work for Microsoft. "Why???" we asked of course, but also "why would THEY hire a musician?" He said, "They told me it's easy to hire an artist and teach them to program, very difficult to hire a programmer and teach them to be an artist."
It's unbelievable. Decades later we've got unanswered questions from literally page 3. And I think a lot of writers have the ambition to set something like that up, but the Foglios are unquestionably actually DOING it.
In 1994 Onanie Bomb Meets the Sex Pistols came out on Warner Bros and Pony Express Record came out on Epic which is wild in retrospect. Whatever major labels were smoking in the '90s, I wish they'd get back in touch with their dealer. Shit, they probably only had a pager! But Blue Album was good too
definitely. i've heard conspiracy thinking described as a belief that if you could just kick down the right door, you'd solve every problem in the world.
