If you aren’t reading “El Goonish Shive,” you totally should be.
“What’s ‘El Goonish Shive?’“
It’s a goofy high school fanservice comedy with sci-fi and supernatural elements. No, don’t leave! Let me explain why it’s so good.
It has:
-Adorable, lovable characters
-Seriously, these characters are amazing
-They’re all fucking nerds
-Villains with understandable motivations
-Cool monster designs
-Genuinely funny jokes
-Heart-wrenching emotional moments
-Action scenes
-Character growth
-Some of the best reaction images I’ve ever seen
-An overall progressive bent
-Gay characters
-Lesbian characters
-Lesbian griffins
-Bisexual characters
-An asexual (or at least sex-repulsed) character
-A probably-transgender character
-A genderfluid character
-A lot of really cool LGBT stuff actually
-Good Tom. Just… Good Tom.
“What’s with that title?”
I’ll let the comic itself explain:
Yeah, it’s kind of a really dumb title, but the weird nonsense somehow fits it tonally.
There’s also a (usually) non-canon side-comic where the characters get up to all kinds of crazy shenanigans, though it sometimes has canon storylines that aren’t part of the main comic for pacing reasons.
It starts off pretty not-great, with lousy art and some sort-of gross writing, but it started in 2002 and the author was a teenager at the time, and the comic has really grown along with him a lot since then.
Taylor Weyeneth
is America’s number two official in charge of drug policy. He’s a
24-year-old former Trump campaign volunteer whose resume is singularly
unimpressive: apart from being a frat brother in good standing at St
John’s University and organizing a single charity golf tournament, the
only real jobs he’s ever held were working in his daddy’s chia seed
factory (which closed when his dad went to jail for illegally processing
Mexican steroids) and working as a legal assistant at the New York
white shoe law firm of O’Dwyer & Bernstien.
But this job was a bit of a mystery, because different versions of
Weyeneth’s resumes listed different tenures at this firm. However, one
of the partners at the firm, Brian O’Dwyer, has clarified the mystery.
Weyeneth was fired because he “just didn’t show.”
when you go back to daydreaming after having been interrupted and your brain does a previously on of your fantasy
When you go back to daydreaming after being startled into the real world and your brain has to search through the ‘recently closed’ tabs to remember what you were daydreaming about
Purdue University researchers built this bizarre crawling robot baby to
study how real infants kick up dirt and bacteria from carpet that they
then inhale. Engineer Brandon Boor and his colleagues ran the robot over
carpet samples removed from people’s homes and then analyzed the
particulates that were stirred up. Turns out that the particle
concentration is as much as 20 times greater than higher up in the room
where we adults breathe. That isn’t necessarily bad though, Boor says.
“Many studies have shown that inhalation exposure to microbes and
allergen-carrying particles in that portion of life plays a significant
role in both the development of, and protection from, asthma and
allergic diseases,” says Boor, an assistant professor of civil
engineering and environmental and ecological engineering. “There are
studies that have shown that being exposed to a high diversity and
concentration of biological materials may reduce the prevalence of
asthma and allergies later in life.”
Every active NYPD cop used to get 30 Patrolmen’s Benevolent
Association “courtesy cards” from their union per year; now they’ll only
get 20 (retired cops used to get 20 and now they’ll get 10).
These cards are known as “get out of jail free” cards, a kind of challenge coin
that establishes the bearer’s bona fides as a friend of the force;
flash the card and cops will give you the benefit of the doubt, tear up
your ticket, or otherwise give you the kid-glove treatment.
The cards were selling on eBay for $200 each when the union announced
the cut, allegedly in a bid to curb the practice (and seemingly in
defiance of the principle of supply and demand).
