Seth Finkelstein

@rowsdower92.bsky.social

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Writer for @paletteswap.net | Comedian | Co-Creator of @lilmisskatepod | Willing to delete any of these skeets if it will get me hired | http://sethfkl.com.

Live Slug Reaction meme with Johnny Depp Ebeneezer

The piece blends Little Orphan Annie–style adventure with the absurdity of Monty Python, Airplane!, and The Naked Gun. What drew you to this particular era of American storytelling, and how do you navigate the politics of nostalgia—celebrating the past while acknowledging its cultural absurdities and blind spots?

The American pulp adventurers that inspire Lil’ Miss Kate that have survived into modern pop culture have generally been sanded down to their most iconic element. Most people probably know Little Orphan Annie best from the Broadway musical, where she goes from precocious orphan to precocious daughter of a wealthy industrialist. But did you know the final Little Orphan Annie comic strip features her kidnapped by Balkan gangsters while Daddy Warbucks resigns himself to her death? That strip came out in 2010! Crimebuster detective Dick Tracy went to the Moon in 1964 and met an alien named Moon Maid, who went on to marry Dick Tracy Jr. before dying in a car crash in 1978. It’s so much fun to tap into this tradition with Lil’ Miss Kate and place her in any sort of genre. We’ve had her solve a murder mystery, stop bandits in the old west, and even fight in The War of 1812 II. Anytime you start to think “does it make sense for Kate to do this?,” you can find some old piece of radio drama or comic strip that shows her inspirations going just as far.

Simpsons quote from And Maggie Makes Three but edited to say This is getting very abstract, but thank you.
I do enjoy "The Bible" by Joe Kubert.

a spam text message that just says "Is Norsestay? ? ?"

A Discord AI bot programmed to act like Ben Shapiro responds to the news that Hunter Biden was pardoned by saying:

Ah, ah, ah, don't even try to change the subject, Finkelstein – my Legos are still being held hostage, and I won't be distracted by your feeble attempts to deflect attention from your own misdeeds; besides, Hunter Biden's pardon is a perfect illustration of the corrupt, nepotistic tendencies of the Democratic Party, a further example of their disregard for the rule of law and their willingness to abuse power for personal gain; but I won't be swayed from my righteous indignation over my stolen Legos – return them, Finkelstein, or face the consequences