Easier said than done, when you live in a small town (pop. 3000) and Walmart has put the other grocery stores out of business.

In the US, if you let your kid out of your sight, someone will call the cops. My daughter is petite. Her height appears to have maxed out at 5 foot 3 inches (1.6 meters). So she looks a younger than her age. She will often sit in the car while we go into a store. Twice the cops showed up because someone called. Once,…

Sorry, this illogical. People can be both incredible at things AND assholes. This story and movie are so good exactly because Whedon is a great movie maker even if he is also an asshole. This movie given to someone else would have been totally different and likely nowhere near as good. 

Uber and Lyft both stepped forward to announce they had disabled surge pricing in the area, and spokespeople the companies said they’d also work to refund people who experienced “unintended charges during this emergency.”

If you can’t skip KarTRASHian news, please at least avoid making them the top item?

This seems harmless and not worth the snark...

Is this really that big of a deal? Whining about “this was anything but a home run” seems like making way too much out of something silly. Frito Lay did donate to the Women’s Sorts Foundation, after all. What’s so “ambiguous” about their racial identities? I recognize who they represent. It’s cute and meant to be…

The memes 

The casino boat I worked at briefly in college had to fire up the engines and move once per year to remain legally a boat. While this was a river boat and in a different state, it was still a boat who’s entire existing was a legal loophole. 

Since all the tectonic plates float on magma, we all live on boats too and are not subject property tax.

Early 00s in Arkansas there were some restaurants that used the same code word.  Really it should be used for an 8 top of evangelical white people who order 200 dollars worth of food at 10pm and stay for 2 hours only to leave a 2 dollar tip.

Pressure: pushing down on me,
Pressing down on you, pure water form.
Under pressure that compresses water down,
Cracks a hexagon in two,
Weird science in a beat

That’s OK.

That’s the wonder of knowing
What this water is about.
Watching some scientists screaming,
“Let’s crush it out!”

Prrrretty much.  And aside, I find Levy himself pretty annoying. Seems like a reaaal try-hard.

I expect that, like all of Shawn Levy’s films, it will be aggressively fine.

Obligatory:

Tutankhamen had amber in his tomb that had been traded all the way from the Baltic Coast. It would not surprise me at all if his dagger had a long trek as well - the whole Bronze Age depended on long distance trade routes just to supply the tin for the bronze (the copper came from the huge copper deposits on Cyprus).

It’s kind of weird to be going back to the Abrams crew, seeing as how we’re now as far from the ‘09 movie as The Undiscovered Country was from TMP.

with Nana Visitor!

I would love to see Tarantino make an Inglorious Basterds type movie set on Cardassian occupied Bajor.