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It just came to light, via a slip on the faceie spacies, that a very good friend of mine is bailing out of here with his wife and I am seriously working up some negative gut feelz about this. Might as well be third grade in my reaction. I mean who else will I get to chat about comics, go actually *BUY* comics with, go to movies, be my wingman at crazy brony cons, or the like? Shit.. I may either never do those again, or figure out how to be comfortable being "that dude by himself".

Son of a bitch.. Fuck you Florida! I blame you.

I am unsure on the level of tantrum I should throw in response to this news.

I've been catching stray episodes of 'Rick and Morty' on Adultswim for a while now. It is a cartoon based on the shady science dealings of a super cynic Rick (think a more drunk asshole version of Doc Brown), and his grandson Morty. Science goes awry, science ensues, and amusingly dark fun is had by all... except I finally got around to seeing the entire "Rick Potion #9". Wow.. what.. what a light hearted episode that took a severe turn at the end.

It started simple enough - Morty wanting to make the super pretty girl fall in love with him. Rick throws a bit of Morty's hair into a vole serum and sends him on his way to the dance. The love potion turns awry when the girl spreads the love potion via the flu. Everyone wants a piece of Morty. To counter act the vole Rick uses a praying mantis base position (mantises do not pair bond for life and are opposites of voles in this regard). This mutates people into mantis people. To counter this Rick goes through a whole hodge podge of animal DNA which turns people in to "cronenbergs". Gooey, mashed up, inside out people.

Rick flips out that "science can be an art", and he starts scanning for a solution as Morty sits on a building ledge looking down at the monsters humanity has become trusting that Rick can pull something out of his hat. Monsters because he, Morty, wanted a love potion to attract this girl.

Now this is where shit goes from "aww damn" to "holy shit that is dark!". Rick's solution was to scan the multiverse for one reality where that Rick found the solution to the cronenbergs, turned everyone back, but alternate him and alternate Morty died. They stepped through a portal into this new reality, and with some harsh words from Rick, they bury their alternate selves, clean up the blood, and go on to subsume their alternative's lives.

As Morty stares down at his alternate's mangled corpse Mazzy Star's "Look On Down From The Bridge" plays. Rick continues on like it was nothing, but Morty wanders into the house with this thousand yard stare. It looks at his alternate reality parents fighting, and walks into the living room to see Rick sprawled out on the couch and Morty's alternate sister sitting on the couch texting. Morty sits down and the camera slowly pans out. You can damn near read the thought train in Morty's head..

"I just caused a problem so galactically fucked up that the only solution was to wash your hands of that reality, and take over the life of your alternate. There was no fix, no cure, there was no science to dampen the issue, but the only recourse is to just to leave... and bury your alternate self so you can steal his identity."

For Pete's sake that is unbelievably harsh to have a kid accept.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1djQXq7FBUk


As it is - that was just going through my mind last night while writing up this wedding ceremony, when I went to bed, and when I woke up. Trying to comprehend that scale of "I done gone fucked up". I don't know why, but I do know that too much Mazzy Star is a bad thing. That shit is a gateway to more depressing music and musings.

I swear days like today I should just assume I am suffering from some sort of early onset degenerative neurological disorder. FFS.. this is a real struggle for the day..

Maybe a post later about seeing some of the Boys this weekend.