“But why?”
“Because we have to stretch the goddamned season from 12 to 24 goddamned episodes, that’s why. We have to go back because we have to burn airtime meandering in pointless circles, that’s why. That and Mystery Box™️!!!”

For a long time it was Huevos Rancheros, but that got nudged into the #2 spot when I discovered Eggs Benedict.

Where’s that bottom image from? I can’t place it, but if I was a betting man I’d say that’s from the flash-forward in the finale of the penultimate season of LOST, when the doctor is back in the real world, popping pills and swigging Jack Daniels.

In other words - everything she accused the “others” of being.
What was it that she called them, again? I can’t be bothered to look it up, let’s see if I can remember…

Empathists? Philanthropists? Something like that.

EDIT: altruists!

I’m afraid they might be a whole bunch of oldies but goodies:

2001: A Space Odyssey.
The Empire Strikes Back.
Miller’s Crossing (the third movie written and directed by the Coen brothers, from 1989).
A Bridge Too Far (from 1977, a sprawling, star-studded epic about the Allies and their costly, ill-advised and ultimately unsuccessful Operation Market-Garden in WWII).
A Bout De Soufflé. (Godard’s seminal French New Wave cannon blast).
From Russia With Love.
The Spy Who Loved Me.

Oh will you look at that?

People are
talking about,
talking about,
talking about.

Some people even say!

Are you collapsing the wave function again?
I keep telling you that when you high af, you are one step closer towards becoming an observer, you see what I’m saying? If you weren’t high af you wouldn’t even be looking at it, or looking for it.

Stop collapsing the wave function, dammit! Some of us are trying to sleep over here!

General Kenobi!

Hey, you keep your dirty government hands off my Medicare, you hear?

I feel like there’s a bunch of parallel narratives to be unwoven here, and I’m hearing many of them at the same time.
My compliments to the meme chef.

companes

Let’s be briends.

EDIT: breands

Now THIS is art of a very high caliber, indeed!
It was just a public visual detail that elicited a stupid response from the very stupid people, and probably some delight from the rest of the population.

If I was one of the chief stassi goons in town, my response would have been “counter-intelligence art” or “counter-art”, painting MORE stones purple and even other colors, so that whatever secret message the original ones were conveying would be confused, drowned out.

I’m back…! …from my stint in the padded room. Anyway, how’s everyone doin’?

Diamonds, or any sort of gemstone, as trying to sell those things would probably be as risky as stealing them in the first place.

Yeah, like banning the KKK makes me the intolerant one.

You can mathematically group the people in your life in such a way so that half of the people you know are stupider than the other half.
I swear to fuckin’ god, man, politics make it real easy to tell who goes in which half. It’s not a perfect method, but it works at least 85% of the goddamned time.

Watch me check your Bruce with my Sheila, mate.

I still get all verklempt about it.

Streisand Effect: now I REALLY wanna UWU.