We – okay, make that I, your friendly neilghborhood munchman – write because it’s my way of righting all the injustices of the world. Me doing my bit for truth and freedom and justice. The same reason the U.S. fought WWII.
Delusions of glory? You betcha. I got ’em in spades.
For those who have lives, ADVENTURE TIME is the latest very hip and very trendy hipsters-love-it cartoon on Cartoon Network. It’s created by a guy name Pendleton Ward and has made him immeasurably famous to an equally immeasurable number of young adults who, you know, have never seen a good cartoon and wouldn’t know it even if they did.
I watched a lifetime’s worth of ADVENTURE TIME last night. Which is to say that it felt like a lifetime but its real time added up to about 10 mind-and-body-numbing minutes. Which, I suppose, is moderately better than excruciating minutes, but still…
…And he’s also still blowing me away:
Funny thing though. Asimov is known much more for his work than his personality, so I had no idea he was so, um, self-confident. Harlan Ellison, OTOH, is renowned for being right out there as the King of Self Confidence, yet his business card says, simply:
…It was really all the fault of The Walking Dead comic book creator Robert Kirkman. What an a-hole!
Here’s what The Hollywood Reporter has to say, and we know this showbiz Bible would never lead us astray:
…And I can honestly say that it’s every bit as bad as the picture above indicates.
THE GOOD: