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anyaroses—that's why we have guns.

I just hang curtains, with a nice valence across the top.

Any love here for Smile? Bruce Dern classic about teen-age beauty pageants.

Isn't it not that Chad wants to destroy Christine but that he doesn't care about her at all—she's just the tool he chooses to destroy Howard, so he can have Howard's job?
It's the casual disregard of her as a human being—she's meaningless to Chad except as a means to an end—which to some people may look like misogyny

Tiffany's makes bubble blowers. That strikes me as more important than Oprah.

That's the time to release the chimps.

Mermaid Girl has since died, no doubt from shame.

I nominate Angels Hard As They Come, with very young Scott Glenn and Gary Busey and Charles Dierkopf.

You have to train managers how to watch a movie?
Somehow that's not really all that surprising.

Anthony Burgess is one of the truly great modern authors, and most people only know about Clockwork Orange.
A sad and dismal oversight.

faster than a speeding bullet
more powerful than a locomotive
able to leap tall buildings in a single bound

Don't give her any ideas.
Zombies for Jesus.

The first time I got called, there was a pool of 120 potential jurors for six cases. Over the weekend, four of the cases were settled out of court, so the 120 of us were there for only two cases.
After anyone with a reason was excused, they put our names in a hat (so to speak) and filled the two juries by lot. One

Wolves are bigger than coyotes, but they generally don't stick around when humans show up. Coyotes are more likely to invade human areas.
Still, the whole thing is too peculiar.
I've been to Cape Breton Island. Beautiful place, but the roads can be quite breath-taking in the wrong way.

Cockrack, the god of cravats and small furnishings

Ricky Jay is already a god.

They forgot the chemical-free Le Baby Hair Gel.

I read a biography of Simon Kenton, frontiersman in the Davy Crockett mold, and what the whites did to the Indians and what the Indians did back—you don't have to make stuff up. It's been done.

You can always attach a metal handle to the balloon costume and go as Jiffy Pop.