I saw a post about the Kickstarter for Papillon and said to myself, “Man! What a cool idea!”
I’m not really into MMORPGs, but the idea of one where you could play a prisoner in a penal colony in French Guyana, dodging guards, forming alliances with other prisoners, struggling to survive solitary confinement, and plotting escape? I could get behind that.
Then I clicked through to the link. Apparently it has something to do with butterflies.
I like my idea better.
…not in the conventional sense, anyway. But I’ve been reading more James Lileks the past few days because…reasons.
For the historical record, one of the most unambiguously incorrect statements ever made by a Supreme Court justice (sitting or former):
Edited to add: Reason 1. Reason 2.
Charles Levin. Apparently he was most famous for playing a mohel on an episode of “Seinfeld”, but he knocked around TV quite a bit before that. Never did a “Mannix”, but he did some other cop shows, was a regular on “Alice”, and was also in “This Is Spinal Tap”.