TomDCL
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TomDCL
@TomDCL
Suburban dad; attorney; former engineer; multiple-time Jeopardy contestant-pool also-ran; Portu-guinea. Arsenal fan. Yankee fan.

🚨📈 OFFICIAL: TOTTENHAM ARE STAYING IN PREMIER LEAGUE.

If George Floyd were still alive today, what do you think he'd be doing?

New York Giants QB Jaxson Dart introduces President Trump ahead of his speech in New York.


Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes is an interesting figure in my life. On the one hand, Calvin and Hobbes is, for my money, the greatest newspaper strip of all time. I wish I had one tenth of this man's talent. I still think back on how the stories he told got me through some of the rough patches in my childhood by giving me this example of another kid with a vivid imagination who was a bit of a loner (depending on what your views on Hobbes are) who I could identify with. On the other hand, I'm on the complete opposite side of the scale from him when it comes to our views on licensing and comics as a business. He had in his mind the notion that seeing a comic book character made into a toy and put on a store shelf cheapens it somehow. I think that's idiotic. Seeing a character in different contexts is what makes it into an enduring part of the culture. Watterson was inspired greatly in his work by Peanuts, which was extensively licensed out. I, as someone born decades later than Watterson, wouldn't have any connection to Peanuts at all if not for the holiday specials. Licensing keeps characters alive. Meanwhile, I'm worried that Calvin and Hobbes is starting to fade away as a new generation grows up without it. But maybe I'm also just salty that my childhood wish to see a Calvin and Hobbes movie about "the noodle incident" never came true.


The all-new Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé: experience the raw power of a hypercar and the legendary emotion of an Affalterbach V8, paired with charging times that rival a racetrack pitstop. Four doors. No compromises. Pure AMG 🙌

Arsenal are next at Selhurst 🔜



if you followed your childhood dream job, what would you be right now?
















