Just now getting caught up on this. For the past few days I've been watching Die Hard and Die Hard With a Vengeance, a fantastic use of time, as they are perfect movies. But holy crap, the actual news. It's ridiculous. Out of a Pynchon novel. The Trump family and team are certainly no brothers Gruber.

The Dublin whores were so moved, they lowered their fee that day by 20%.

Walking home one night, I found Charlie Bucket on the ground next to my brownstone, seizing up and muttering about how he has always struck out with Veruca Salt. I yelled at him, "Charlie, you're a middle aged man, man! Get in a program!" He suddenly got up and attacked me with a chocolate shank, which I easily…

Toyota's Jan all the way. Not for the part; I'm just making a general declaration of love.

"Can you beat it?"
"You're gonna have to beat it."

I have to watch that again. And Hudsucker Proxy.

"Wait a minute—I can save the world and be with this beautiful woman, and many other beautiful women throughout my and everybody else's now long life? What a concept!"

Fantastic trailer too.
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The promos for that new CBS summer sci-fi show, I think about a meteor about to hit earth, have the character say the following line: paraphrasing, "If you had a chance to save the world, would you, or would you spend your last days with a beautiful woman?" Paging Lewis Black. Dr. Lewis Black, we need you to go nuts…

Spent part of this very hot day a rewatch on cable of A Serious Man, I think the best Coens movie, in my humble opinion. (The Big Lebowski may be their most rewatchable, fun, creative and quotable movie. Hail, Caesar! is getting there.) A very empathetic black comedy of poor, poor Larry Gopnik, a beleaguered man who's…

I do like how recent superhero movies, within the overall framework of costumed people fighting each other, are incorporating other movie genres and getting more serious themes. More of that, please, and maybe this new Spiderman is like this, doing something new with the form to, say, talk about the experience of…

On a scorching Saturday, I finally—better late than never—saw the ultimate film about a scorching Saturday. Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is monumental. It is naturalistic slice of life, aria, symphony, jazz record. But I really loved that it was a play, one that observed the Aristotlean unities (I'm a sucker for…

I love the series' bright color-schemes. Haxby was a hilarious iteration of Futurama's Kip until he did start getting priggish and self-righteous. And you could say Mrs. Quigley and her son are Mom and her sons.

Like Brandon Tartikoff created Miami Vice by scribbling on a napkin, "MTV cops", I feel like this show is MTV whores. Which isn't a bad thing! Here for Sam Morton, and now her fiery yelling. I do like it's practical matter-of-factness about the world's oldest profession, and making a loving mother who pimps out her…

Antihero shows being the superhero movies of TV. Run the same formula into the ground. More diversity would also ideally mean more diversity of stories and characters and so greater artistic merit. But you—and everyone else—know all this.

The global, conglomerate, and shareholder Hollywood of today has trained America's teenagers that superheroes are an inevitable rite of passage, like discovering Rock & Roll and sex. So we get 1100 comments on a nth iteration of a shallow character in the past few years. The previous sentence could be about any…

To fit the page, Puddles Pity Party. But what I really wanted to talk about was I saw him on a this season rerun of America's Got Talent—and I was surprised he was on the show. It's like the Cheers team getting Kevin McHale as a player against their annual b-ball game with Gary's Olde Towne Tavern. It's cheating,…

Thanks! I think the issue was that me and my friend were holding a conversation through texting, when that's better left to actual talking. It made me sick of the writing, and self-conscious about it, though who the hell knows how it did that! But thanks for you guys encouragement. All of you here are great online…

Thanks for the show tip, too. Actually the problem was that me and my friend were holding a conversation by texting, and that's not what the system is designed for, and I don't like texting like that either.

His first, right? I've been reading recently some good first novels.