Best F(r)iends 2: Sesteric Wiseauloo

I’m still pissed that Hardees bought out Burger Chef.

Between Fred Rogers and Billy Graham, I’ll take Fred Rogers forever. Graham made more of an effort to be open-minded than, say, Jerry Falwell and his ilk, but that was a low bar.

I thought The Incredibles was pretty much Pixar’s best complete movie.

Two more to add, if I may.

If you want the archetypal John Gavin performance, look him up as Trevor Grayden in Thoroughly Modern Millie. He plays off his beefcake persona with such daffy, straightlaced charm that he really steals the show.

The Real Battledroids of Yavin 4

I’d like to believe justice is coming, but over history all empires eventually are corrupted from within. It may be that a clearly corrupt administration, aided and abetted by a willing majority in Congress, both completely unconcerned with even the appearance of propriety and adherence to the American code of honor,…

Gorky Park or GTFO.

I spent a couple of weeks in the USSR back in the mid-1980s just as perestroika and glasnost were starting to happen. I met so many fascinating people there. Now, 30+ years later, I’m basically living their life - trying to live and survive with a government that is wholly enveloped in its own self-interest, spewing…

The conservative heel turn is very popular these days among B- and C-listers who want attention. It’s a great career move.

Of course it exists on both sides. The left tends to get excused more often, though, because they err on the side of protecting human dignity while the right errs on the side of letting people be assholes to other people.

I’ve essentially decided that Mr. Perkins and I simply have completely opposite tastes in comedy, because every episode this season he’s liked, I haven’t, and every episode he gives a C to seems at the very least pleasant and funny.

The lady slept with Donald Trump, which immediately and permanently answers any questions I ever had about her taste in anything.

If Abrams cared, he’s have come up with something more original than renaming everything good from the originals with sad, pompous fanfic titles (The First Order! The Resistance! The Knights of Ren!). For my money, anything that Rian Johnson did to punch holes in JJ Abrams’ narrative puffery was a good thing.

Please, Flying Spaghetti Monster, save me from overemotional ‘shippers of mass entertainment properties.

Given Michael Schur’s sensibilities, I would not be surprised if The Good Place ended up being Eleanor, Chidi, Jason, and Tahani finding a way to be fully at peace with themselves, that there was no actual Heaven or Hell, and that The Bad Place was simply a somewhat deceptive motivational tool for people to figure out…

Two things.

Had Rian Johnson filmed it that way, these same people would be bitching that “MARK HAMILL IS TOO OLD TO BELIEVABLY DO THAT KIND OF NINJA MOVE!! CGI!! LAAAAAAAME—”

They didn’t say a damn thing about sand, which automatically gives this Star Wars movie a passing grade IMO.