same level of disappointment as when my parents told me the neighbors were getting a chocolate lab

People have issues about how the museum's being run but, that aside, the actual collection looks interesting so far compared to what other museums of the same size are willing to show

starfruit

Its a hard message to send because in 21st century media chess, only a queen can take a queen.

I hate how the internet has this parasocial habit of taking anecdotes and trying to turn them into data. people need to go outside

(either before or after writing that nonfiction piece in whatever magazine it was gushing about how much he liked Frank Miller's Daredevil)

yeah, i mean marvel published parodies of itself

i can imagine all this very well

Deal.
Opening salvo:
Whatever else is going on, it is about how nobody can just be a dick anymore, they have to be a politicized dick.

(1) Write genre from outside of it in, not the inside of it out.
(2) Try not to model yourself on the best of genre writers, only on the best of writers. Obviously your choices there will be subjective, but the risk with genre is it's a rabbit hole.
(3) Don't try to undo genre using its own tools.

Trump came up in the "I Know A Guy" economy. If anybody is well-placed to track down a body he buried that actually matters, its likely a New Yorker

Not because they beat him before, but because they have more experience with him. Which in the case of journalists and the prosecutors in many of his real estate cases, is true in the most literal sense.