I do not, no, and that's why I'm curious; I didn't mean for the question to be accusatory at all. Or, let me put it this way: if the teachers had initially decided that the film was appropriate for five-year-olds, what happened to make them realize that it actually wasn't?

On a personal note, I'll just say that it's always heartening to hear about accomplished creative people who took a while to get started (apparently Adams was 52 when his first book was published). Like, the Stevie Wonders of the world are deservedly lionized for being brilliant right out of the gate, but there are…

Now I'm really curious as to why they stopped it… Did the teachers just decide that it was inappropriate, or did kids actually start freaking out?

Me in 2016: "I'll never accept Trump as President!"
Me in 2020: "I'll never accept Trump as Emperor-for-Life!"
Me in 2024: "I'll never accept Eric Trump as Emperor-for-Life!"

Also don't forget the unrighteous, fornicators, idolaters, adulterers, effeminate, abusers of themselves with mankind, thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, and extortioners.

Cat Power's 'The Covers Record' is a great album - it's called 'The Covers Record,' even.

Man, I'm so busy with all of this CPA work! It's almost as if I were some kind of CPA with a lot of work to do!

It's especially frustrating because, of course, he inherited gobs of money and a successful real-estate business from his dad; I think a lot of people have just assumed that he must be a self-made man from a working-class background, not realizing that he was always a rich kid.

This touches on something that's struck me as especially weird about all this. I'm from the NYC area, and for decades Trump was basically a symbol of opulent, big-city elitism. His two (I think) most prominent NYC buildings are in the part of Manhattan just south of Central Park, surrounded by lavish old hotels,…

I'll take this opportunity to recommend the book "Let's Talk About Love" by Carl Wilson which, among other things, makes a strong case for Céline Dion as a deeply committed and talented artist, even if you think her music sucks (which Wilson basically does).

What if it turned out that the two things Trump keeps on his nightstand are a paperback of Hitler's collected speeches and… a copy of Call the Doctor on vinyl?

You mean this year's Cannine's

I used to work at a used bookstore and they gave us a quiz where we were given a pile of books and had to judge how much each one could reasonably sell for. One of them was a 'Dune' book and many of us assumed that any 'Dune' book could sell for a decent price, but it was actually one of the latter-day…

I've never actually read the book but it seems like Dune would call for a unique, visionary sensibility; Villeneuve is a wonderful cinematic storyteller but he hasn't shown the sort of singularly inventive weirdness of people like Lynch or Jodorowsky. But, uh, considering how their versions turned out…

That explains his upcoming directorial projects: Needle (2018), Eel (2019), Evil (2020), Enliven (2022), and the bizarre-sounding Vuneelivedil (2024)

And Watchmen. Notoriously hard to film; no one's done it yet! Don't tell me otherwise LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

Funnier, too.

That show was so dumb - completely unrealistic and forced; totally written by elitist ivory-tower types trying to show how dumb average Americans are, like 'Hey, normal people are so stupid they'd elect a con-artist president!' They even made him an evil businessman like the guy in Back to the Future 2! Would never…

BREAKING: There are only 182 scripted shows on TV*




*as long as you don't include any shows from the last 14 years.

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