How to Decide Whether to Rent, Buy, or See a Movie in the Theater
I never have seen Suckerpunch. I have seen Big Trouble in Little China many, many times.
If, like me, you enjoy Big Trouble in Little China, I suggest you watch the Movies with Mikey episode about it.
It will change the way you see that movie.
If you’re not a Big Trouble in Little China fan, I suggest you watch a Movies with Mikey episode about a movie you do like. It’s a really good show.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=movies+with+mikey
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Help Someone Confront their Prejudices
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Steve Jobs did not invent the smartphone. You can’t even say that Apple originated the smartphone. I had a smartphone—a Palm Treo 600—two years before the iPhone was announced. The Treo had a web browser, email, an MP3 player, a video player, applications, and a touch screen. All of the stuff the iPhone launched with.
Apple didn’t invent. They innovated. Their innovation was that their smartphone did those things well. Aside from email, the Treo very much did not.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Increase a City's Tourism
Reno: Where the decent people won’t see what you’re up to.
Reno: A vacation you’ll talk about for years to come, at AA meetings.
Reno: Maybe you’ll win enough for a ticket to Vegas!
I could keep doing this all day.
HGTV is currently inundated with shows about renovating houses. In most of the titles they shorten the word “renovation” to “reno,” which always makes me think the show takes place in Reno.
Of course, there is no show called “Reno Reno.” The before segments would be too depressing.
“There’s a hole in the wall because the former owner sold the fireplace bricks to pay his outstanding brothel bill.”
“The hardwood floors are in pretty rough shape, but those bloodstains should sand right out.”
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Flatter
I can’t think of anything particularly interesting to say about this comic, so instead, I’ll point out that They Might Be Giants’ most recent album, I Like Fun, includes a song that I loved instantly upon hearing it for the first time. I spent two weeks constantly singing the chorus under my breath, much to Missy’s dismay.
Here’s a copy of it on YouTube. (I looked for a more legitimate way to link directly to the song so you could hear it, but I couldn't think of one. If any of you know of one, please let me know.)
Recently, the band released the song’s original version, which was the soundtrack to a video they play before their concerts, and having watched it several times, I like the song even more now!
How to Compose a "Tweet"
Twitter has never really been my forte. It requires brevity. I submit any Basic instructions comic as exhibit A in my case to prove that brevity is not my “thing.”
(Note: Ironically, this commentary would, in fact, fit in a tweet, even if you include this additional note.)
Note from Missy: It’s funny seeing which of these comics from 7-8 years ago end up having outdated information. If only we’d had 280 characters back in ’11!
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Assert Your Beliefs
I picture a special device, similar to a tricorder, where you’d press an electrode or a lens or something to an object to scientifically measure how brown it is. There’d be a dial on the front with various readings, ranging from “not brown,” to “hardly brown at all,” all the way past “quite brown indeed,” to “absolute brown.”
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Synergize
THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN!
I’m telling you, if the credits of Ant Man and the Wasp ends with a sequence where the heroes foil some evil-doer’s scheme by throwing the villain a package of Hostess Fruit Pies, it will instantly become my favorite Marvel movie.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).
How to Unite Against a Common Foe
In comic books, movies, and TV shows, teaming up with your greatest enemy is always a big event. It isn’t nearly as glamorous or interesting in real life, as I find that most of my greatest enemies at any given time have been people I worked with. Nobody wants me to entertain them with the thrilling tale of the time I joined forces with my nemesis and we used our combined powers to check a family into the resort hotel where I worked.
As always, thanks for using my Amazon Affiliate links (US, UK, Canada).