Because despite that fact that it’s anyone’s natural presumption that Rent Control and Rent Stabilization—both forms of rent regulation in New York State, though no doubt a vast majority of these units are in NYC—must be subject to some manner of oversight by DHCR (the state agency that administers the regulations),…
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Even if the Breakneck trail is closed, the next trail up, the Wilkinson trail, which is closer to the Breakneck train stop (the first two Metro-North trains out of NYC on Saturdays and Sundays make this stop) and which accesses the same trail system as the Breakneck trail, while not the challenge/draw that Breakneck…
Yamazaki 12 used to be a $40 entry-level whisky, and Yamazaki 18 a top value-for-price whisky at $90-$100. Both were acceptable at those price points. Now the 12 is around $200 and the 18 I’ve seen at $400 or more. Bullshit. There’s no good reason for people to be buying Japanese in the US market when you can get four…
Re: “Mad Max wasn’t even the hero”: I think the movie is improved by making even less of him. I find the opening a completely unnecessary exercise in exposition (I don’t like the PTSD daughter flashbacks either), so have taken from the moment I bought the DVD to fast-forwarding to the post-title shot to make it the…
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She’s really great in Lovesong:
And then there’s the Wolves’ coach trying to call a timeout when they had none and Towns’ moving screen on George.
And the word for “right” is “dexter,” which gives us “dextrous.” So we have “ambidextrous” on the one hand (so to speak), and “two left feet” on the other.
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Late to this, so my post will probably languish in the bottom grays, but two great movies I did see this summer, in advance of their official release (they’re both in theaters now), are Manashe and Beach Rats. Trailers below:
A clench of assholes
When my apartment was being treated some years ago I asked the exterminator what was the worst thing he’d seen. His answer was a senior who had bedbugs nesting in his bedsores....
I feel like it’s grossly slanted towards the kinds of films that people like to say they enjoyed to impress other people.
Yes, it’s a conservative myth, but it’s long baffled me why it isn’t used as a petard to relentlessly hoist conservatives by. If they’re so nostalgic for the traditional family, why have they been in the vanguard of the policies that have shaped the economy to make it impossible for the vast majority of American…
I think there’s a dragon for each of our three principle heroes, all of whom are Targaryen: Dany, Jon, and Tyrion. But while Dany was able to bond with Drogon, having had him from hatching, and Tyrion’s in a position to train his dragon (at least on the show; in the books I suspect Tyrion will bond with his dragon by…
They’re from down under Down Under.
Re: my “the only hitch” post below, I’ve actually imagined something like the Silence of the Lambs switcharoo as how Arya could pull that off while staying true to the prophesy: Cersei sees someone who isn’t Tommen killed; thank the gods her Tommen is still alive; embraces Tommen; Tommen chokes her to death—i.e., the…
The only hitch is that the prophesy also says that Cersei watches her children die, so if this is how it goes down, there might have to be a chain of events such that it would tragically dawn on Cersei as “Tommen” was choking the life out of her not only that this isn’t Tommen, but that a death she witnessed and…
ETA: Of course Arya can’t kill Cersei, because of the prophecy
