A good director can create a wow effect out of cardboard and string. There were a hundred different little things that went into making the first MIB charming as hell and the sequels no so much. Like:

There are kids reading this who weren’t born when Firefly first aired.

Wondering what McDonald’s is going to do with this random collection of foreign currency?

The next time a jogger is raped in Central Park, I think we can all agree, without any evidence, who the guilty party is:

Do you have a line in the sand?

No, I want to see where this goes.  Everyone continue arguing about hash browns.

In a field of 20 candidates, most of whom are sliding off the map, you figure at least one of them would pull a Bulworth and say something like, “Donald Trump is a cocksucker. I pledge that if elected President, I will suck 100% fewer cocks in the White House than Trump. I also promise not to shit myself on a weekly…

“HAHAHA! What a dope! Of course I knew that, obviously, before now! I totally, definitely did know that, and I definitely did not NOT know that. Goober!”

More depressing is how the article actually has photos of some of these dudes... and they’re normal-looking. A little MPB here, a little pudgy there, maybe vaguely ethnic in a way that would only bother someone who’s really racist. What they want to look like are the models from Dolce and Gabbana ads (which,…

Then, because Alan Moore decided this was what readers of an American horror comic from DC would want:

Does anyone else think that the actual Swamp Thing is the least scary and fakest looking thing in these videos? They all start out looking like a cool series about swamp zombies and vine-based body-horror, but then they end with this green dude running around in a rubber suit looking like he’s trying to look spooky.

It’s ALWAYS the family members.

So our Primary policy is going to be “Dig up as much dirt as you can on all the candidates (whose names you can remember) and then vote for the one you hate least”?

It is a testament to their training that so few flights attendants abuse their power in that way, especially given that 90+% of what they actually spend their time doing is serving drinks and pretzels to long-distance commuters.

Or they work for Uber.

I really love the baroque sort of lighting they’re working with on the monsters in those concept paintings. They almost make the actual footage look flat and monochromatic by comparison.

Also, bear in mind, when the doors shut on a plane, the Attendant is GOD. The pilot can’t leave the cockpit, so in any emergency, you are relying on the Flight Attendant, and the Flight Attendant ALONE to keep you safe. The Attendant is law enforcement, EMT, firefighter, waitstaff, bartender, chef, elder care, Protecti…

App, n: software that fixes a problem by making it more convenient by making it worse.

Biden isn’t an idiot. Neither was Hillary. Both know that right now, today, elections need millions of dollars to win. The Republicans have that. The fastest way for Democrats to have that is to say things billionaires like, and then try to work in half-measures toward real policy changes, since the next election is…

That’s Pete Buttegeig’s Day #1 priority.