Happy Birthday!

I've been imagining the final, twistiest October Surprise, or early November, just to put a cherry on top of this absurd hellhole of an election, is Trump dropping dead of a heart attack and Pence suddenly getting the top spot. Wouldn't surprise me after everything else that has improbably happened!

I wish Nora Ephron—who was public in her hatred of the email—were still alive.

When I first got in that blue dress, I’m such a tomboy by nature, I was
like, “I can’t believe I’m going to have to wear this for eight years.”. So they have an eight year story. That's why it's taking its time, people.

I was joking, though if they could find a way to do that, it would be cool.

They also played Claire de Lune twice.

You just made me think that Ford instead of the MiB is William, who somehow got a British accent along the way.

—Could Ford be a robot? The MiB saying he could cut him open and see what he finds planted that idea. Arnold creates the park by himself, kills himself, and Corporate under William built a new designer. Yeah, the MiB being William is back in play, again.
—So the world outside of Westworld is some kind of utopia where…

Even though that's not Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan's relationship on the show (I assume), that header pic reminds me of the recent SNL sketch about a local news crew being gobsmacked that Margot Robbie married a very average if not mediocre dude. The stunning Gillian Anderson deserves only the very best looking…

In the hack of her emails, there were excerpts from her Wall Street speeches. In one, she said, "My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future.."
http://www.snopes.com/hilla…

Would that be a reference to Clinton's one common market comment? (I also found out much later than I should have, that "quite" in British English is quite different from what it means in American English—meaning "just okay" or "mediocre." Good to know when I talk to a British person!)

Jamelle Bouie at Slate had a good piece on this, referencing a political science book I now want to read, that argues people more than anything always vote for the party, and the party they've always voted for in habit, instead of the actual candidate and his/her actual positions, or lack thereof.
http://www.slate.com/…

I feel that if you were to write this as a screenplay—about the first woman being elected to POTUS, and with that feminist theme and these latest developments about another hit she takes because of a sexually predatory alpha male—that that screenplay would be thought of as too blunt and on-the-nose.

Kitty Genovese, Luke Cage, Black Mirror, Colson Whitehead, Patton Oswalt, Maureen O'Hara and Lucille Ball.

There's three cuts of the film, actually: Lonergan's copy, which Damon didn't change; The Informant! version, which is pretty badly bungled and incompetent, but you feel for the film; and the Good Will Hunting cut, which has a lot more swearing and apples.

Yeah, that's the only way to go about it—just do your show without reading about what audiences are saying.

You know, I find Dolores pretty compelling, because of Evan Rachel Wood's fantastic performance. I also like Hopkins' Dr. Ford, Bernard, and Theresa.

True, but I happen to like being sideswiped by a twist, and reading a fan theory that turns out to be true diminishes that. I rather be surprised by what's onscreen than know about it beforehand.

This is what happens when you create a "mystery box show": it has to outsmart the many fan theories from many, many viewers. That's pretty hard, unless the writers are geniuses at imaginative plots. But Westworld, for me, is pretty interesting as conceptual, philosophical SF (that is formally made well) so I'm not…

I live in California. We have a record number of state propositions this year, along with the usual many people running for various offices. In addition to getting a lot of mailers, I have seen way too many commercials for and against all the initiatives. It's exhausting.