Just finished watching it. Not bad, TV-movie-quality but a straightforward script.

Besides Richard “Shaft” Roundtree and Sam “needs no introduction” Raimi, the actual ex-boxer who “Raging Bull” was based on, Jake LaMotta, plays a Detective.

I watched it on Tubi… currently ad-free with uBlock Origin adblocker (on Firefox, at least…)

Then draw a circle around the plant’s utterance in panel 3, and also around the first half of the plant’s utterance in panel 4, and consider if those parts could have been something else. Not that they’re bad, just that the rest of the strip is excellent and those parts didn’t keep up.

I think your intuition was on to something good. TIL that the rose in The Little Prince was based on a real person, with whom the author had a tumultuous relationship. So the author had a lot to pull from when he was writing that character. I hope the personality of the plant continues to show through, as the series progresses.

Sorry to hear that, fam. I hope it got better eventually.

The first two panels here are really top-notch. An excellent balance of thoughtfulness and humor. Bello’s question in panel 3 continues this, but the plant’s reply is less satisfying. Bello’s utterance in panel 4 is still good, but the plant’s final reply, while a decent joke, is a little out-of-tune with the other 3 panels.

• Bello seems to be talking about something existential / emotional, while the plant isn’t really reacting to this in an interesting way.
• maybe the point is that the plant and Bello are talking past each other? (i.e. Bello’s trying to “reach out” and the plant’s not picking up on it.)
• It’s not quite clear what the difference between “hunger” and “munchies” is – they’re kind of the same, right?

(I hope you don’t mind I write a comment like this, “workshop-style” like in creative writing classes.)

I agree with comment-OP. I was thinking about the rose in The Little Prince, and how it is important that the character be a rose. In fact to make a memorable impression the character has to be a rose, just as the fox has to be a fox, and the snake a snake. I think I see why Bello has to be a bear, though it’s not yet clear to me why the plant is a plant.

So there must have been one day on which the Tethys Ocean was suddenly no more, right? I looked at the wikipedia page and it wasn’t clear.

Mondrian’s work had an enormous influence on 20th-century art, influencing not only the course of abstract painting and numerous major styles and art movements (e.g. Color Field painting, Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism), but also fields outside the domain of painting, such as design, architecture and fashion. Design historian Stephen Bayley said: “Mondrian has come to mean Modernism. His name and his work sum up the High Modernist ideal. I don’t like the word ‘iconic’, so let’s say that he’s become totemic – a totem for everything Modernism set out to be.”

The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

Jim Jarmusch, Dead Man.

Kinda interesting that the hat looks like an Andean chullo. And it looks like the front of the Thracian cape could be untied to become a poncho. I guess if you’re living in a cold region with lots of wool, there’s only so many different ways you can make a cap and cloak, huh?

Well let’s see… first we gotta figure out the analogy:

• carriers = posts promoting a product
• carrier escorts = posts commenting on and upvoting the “carrier” post
• torpedos/dive-bombs = bot-delivered replies that disparage “carrier” posts. They “hit” if they get highly upvoted
• fighters = bots that downvote carrier-fleet posts and upvote torpedo/dive-bomb replies
• carrier “screen” fighters = bots that post attacks on enemy fighters and munitions
• carrier AA fire = bots that downvote attacks by enemy fighter bots

The analogy is still a little clumsy… are “carriers” posts, or are they the bots that make the posts? etc. But a Midway-like battle would involve a modest but strategically-positioned product-promoting community that is about to be surprised-attacked by a rival, who will make several posts disparaging the product. But the attack is identified through corporate espionage. The posts are hard to find, so the “fighters” have to search for them but ultimately they do, and after fierce up- and down-voting, the attacking posts are deeply downvoted.

I read somewhere that there are actually two types of fiber, and they have different effects, but most food is only ever labelled “fiber” so idk.

something something bottled water left in the sun something microplastics.

Because migrants are generally peaceful, non-violent people who just want to work hard and improve their lives.

ur gonna give birth to a meme.

My favorite scene from the movie.

Businesses wouldn’t offer free self-defense classes – liability! They’d just put up a ribbon in tribute of all the fallen babies. Maybe they’d sell ribbons too, so you can honor the babies.

Also elderly people. Me or other family buy groceries for an aunt, she has Amazon for emergencies.