Partly answered in the piece:
Shearer's home in New Orleans, a four-story converted macaroni factory, provides evidence of where his combative approach has gotten him. There are gold-paneled walls, impossibly high ceilings, parquet floors, a marble ballroom (complete with baby-grand piano), and the gaudiest collection of Mardi Gras tiaras and crowns ever assembled in one place. Shearer himself is bedecked in a riot of color—a navy-gold-and-red striped dress shirt over a purple T-shirt, maroon jeans, and a rainbow-striped pair of Y3 Yohji Yamamoto high-tops. The Simpsons, it's clear, has been very good to Shearer, which is why he can afford to go after the “larcenous executives” who he says are doing him and countless others wrong.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
would be cool if that was their main defense in court. "But your honor, he owns $400 shoes!"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:33 (six years ago) link
I mean, considering they have to ask permission and PAY to appear as characters they created, I don't think the money is the biggest point of contention.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:35 (six years ago) link
btw I didn't at all mean to imply here that I think Harry is in the wrong here (or w his Simpsons negotiation tactics), if someone's going to make a million dollars off of work he created it should be him and not some corporate assholes.
I was just genuinely curious about what someone who is ludicrously rich and also left-wing, with a clear distaste for corporate elites etc. would do with the bajillions that he's made over the years. Evidently he's indulged his more ridiculous whims cuz why not, I would hope he's been somewhat philanthropic too at least but whatever
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 19:50 (six years ago) link
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S08E12/680162.jpg?b64lines=WUVTLCBCVVQgSSdEIFRSQURFIElUCiBBTEwgRk9SIEEgTElUVExFIE1PUkUu
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:09 (six years ago) link
I do kinda love that lives in a fucking macaroni factory
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
haha i chuckled at that
― i n f i n i t y (∞), Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:14 (six years ago) link
No one knows who they were or what they were doing
― badg, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:15 (six years ago) link
reading their song titles just makes me giggle
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 1 June 2017 20:17 (six years ago) link
WHERE THE DEWDROPS CRY... and the CATS MEOW!
― The Anti-Climax Blues Band (Turrican), Monday, 5 June 2017 19:18 (six years ago) link