One thing I really adore about Tom King’s Batman (This is from I Am Gotham with David Finch) is that he takes the Moore/Miller “Isn’t Batman craaaaaazyyyyyy” approach and then flips it on its head, showing the repetition and the obsession, the unhealthy coping mechanisms, and then asks the simple question, why are they unhealthy? They kept him alive, kept him together, helped him become a better person, didn’t they? It takes the mentally ill aspect of Batman’s character and separates it, utterly, from the “Sociopathic villain” perception it seemed to go hand in hand with, explaining that, yes, Batman can be mentally ill, and yes, Batman can still then be an inherently, unambiguously good person
Upea galaxy brain huomaus herra presidentti, arvasit meidän salaisuudet miten estetään metsäpaloja maassa missä mikään ei ole kuiva
Okay, this is Paradise, California, and this fire is personal. I have friends who don’t have a home to go back to, over 60 employees in the company I work for who no longer have homes. There is no community of Paradise any more. It’s gone. It burned down in 17 hours and the stories coming out of it are both horrifying and incredibly touching. People showed how beautiful they are in this really…really horrible fire.
Then the President comes to town (we’re a small mostly farming community in the far, far northern reaches of California) and …uh…he called Paradise “Pleasure” several times before he was corrected. Of course we’re now laughing our butts off over that, but the raking thing? After a once-vibrant town of over 27,000 people is wiped off the map by fire, 81 people and counting dead? We can’t stop making jokes about it. “Welcome to Paradise (crossed out) Pleasure. Bring your rake!”.
Yeah, it’s beyond awful. The worst thing I’ve ever seen and I have no words for what my friends are going through. We have people living with us because there simply aren’t enough hotels/motels for people and they were living in tents in the Walmart parking lot.
But you know what? Thank you, Trump, for that laugh. We won’t forget it – we’ll mock it from now until the town is re-built and probably long after.
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