close enough to touch, far enough to flee

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

Death's got a green thumb 🌼🌻💀

EVAN BUCKLEY & TOMMY KINARD ▸8x11, holy mother of god

Q: There is actually a clip... It's called "The Weekenders being responsible for my sense of humor for 15 minutes" or something like that. And it was just brilliantly put together because I'm like, "This is me! These are all of the moments that I remember, and all of the moments that helped form my sense of humor and my identity." So I love that. Doug Langdale: Yeah, it was funny. We did the first season of the show, and they had some kind of consultants come in to figure out what we could do to increase the ratings in the second season. We had this meeting where I sat down and this person was explaining to me what was wrong with the show and said, you know, "It's too much talk, not enough action." And just was kind of going on... And in the middle of the meeting, the door opened and someone leaned into the room and said, "We just beat Pokémon!" and closed the door and went back out. I slowly turned from the door back to the person who was talking, and they were just like "...Eh." Didn't know how to go on because we had just become the number one show. I was like, "So you were saying about how we can fix the show?" And I don't know, we did make a little bit of an effort, but I mean... it was just kind of the nature of the show that it was mostly people talking. It was not a big action-y show. It was more about small moments. It wasn't about huge emotions. It was just about day-to-day dealing with ordinary stuff. I mean, the characters were all sort of like vaguely neurodivergent, although we didn't have the term at the time, because everyone working in animation was kind of vaguely neurodivergent. So a lot of this stuff, when you're a kid who doesn't quite conform to how brains are supposed to work... a lot of minor things like feel like a big deal. It was just sort of interesting to do a show where that was sort of as big as it ever got was like "Oh, I have to deal with seeing my parents together for the first time in a long time." No one was ever dying. Nothing huge or tragic was ever happening. It was a little bit subdued. In the end the show wasn't a huge success, but I think the people who liked it really liked it, and that's all you can do. [Source]

Calvin and Hobbes - It’s July Already

Elena Wuest (Kazakhstani/German b.1977), Lost in a Dream, 2026, Oil on canvas

or, Josh’s Tuesday doesn’t go as planned