And the cherry on top of that news? Today is Bill Clinton’s birthday.
Yup! My girlfriend/so-to-be-fiance is in journalism, and I’m a low-level gov’t employee, so when we started to have the talk about all of this, she - understanding we’re not exactly rolling in the dough at the moment - actually championed spending less on a ring (she wanted morganite anyways which typically runs…
Me too! Folks who went to Honduras in 1980 certainly weren’t doing it for a just a fun trip abroad to “spread the good word” or whatever. It was a very dangerous time in that part of the world.
While we’re talking ship numbering, why is no one pointing out the “31" part of NCC-1031?
VHS in 2001? Was definitely very much still a thing. I was a junior in college that year, and had just bought a brand new TV/VCR combo the summer before for my dorm room.
So this is interesting: around the 2:11 mark or so in the story trailer when there’s a gunshot and flash to white, the flash has a bunch of numbers and letters in it. Mean anything to anyone?
Same - was in kindergarten in New Hampshire so with Christa McAuliffe being on board, we were all glued to the TV.
And here’s the song as recorded by “The Mary Janes” (aka Married With Sea Monsters) out of Central Texas:
Maybe we’re gonna get one of these opportunities again...
It was a pretty small film shot on like a $7 million budget, that had a good run at Sundance, but came out the week after Jurassic World and Inside Out.
It’s funny, but nothing like Napoleon Dynamite.
Like this:
Go watch Dope right now, it’s fantastic fun (and now on Netflix, I believe).
Fair enough - I guess as a big cinephile I remember being all, “Oh cool, the girl from Winter’s Bone is in X-Men” at the time, but you’re right that that probably wasn’t the normal reaction.
I wouldn’t say she was an unknown then, in that she had just picked up major acclaim and a Oscar nomination for Winter’s Bone.
Well there was also:
Heaven forbid they’re “wrapped up in a hip-hop soundtrack”...
Wrong - the USMA mascot is the Black Knight, and John Burk isn’t a ring knocker, he was an enlisted guy.
You friend is very wise.