The thesis is that people tend to hear what they want to hear and it argues for a belief I've thought for awhile: that rather than doing research and coming up with an opinion based on it, people develop an opinion and then look for research to back it up.

"Why are you wearing linguine on your head?"

I was able to get some NY strip for $6 a lb (usually it's $10).

Made Filipino minced meat curry for lunch. 1 1/2 lbs of ground pork, garlic, onion, coconut milk, turmeric, curry powder, bay leaves, and jasmine rice.

The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters by Tom Nichols, which I buzzed through last night and early this morning and enjoyed.

Commentaries are especially good either when you're working out (heh! like i'd know…) or doing housework.

Fuck them and their notions on casting. It's called ACTING. Yet another New Rule. Where's it going to end? No casting Americans to play Brits, and vice versa? No casting gay people to play straight, and vice versa?

I saw it years ago.

How about Linda Hunt in The Year of Living Dangerously?

The guy from SpaceCamp? Who looked a bit like Eddie Haskell if he played high school football?

I think Garland was 16 when they made the movie and they had to strap her tits down. I was too busy looking at those big sad eyes to notice…Judy Garland circa 1938-1945 was about the cutest girl I'd ever seen.

Eight words: NO MORE 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA RIDE.

I refuse to get a smartphone, and not for financial reasons. I don't need constant internet. When I have to take a bus or a train, I bring a book…I don't need to read constant news, especially more bullshit politics. I also don't use any social media except LinkedIn, which I only use for job searching.

I still use Netflix by mail without streaming. One thing that concerns me is that DVD extras, including commentaries, will be a thing of the past.

I agree…I live in Chicago and worked in the Sears Tower last fall/winter. "Willis Tower" isn't a terrible name, I'm just used to the former one, but U.S. Cellular Field just sounds like such a generic name, like American Cellular or ABC Cellular.

Just added it to my Netflix queue.

At the time, I think she had already built a career doing voice work for Saturday morning cartoons, though I think she was still acting as well. I think the only thing I ever saw her in is Twilight Zone: The Movie.

None of the therapists I talked to had much to say, and almost nothing that I hadn't already figured for myself. I also have a low tolerance for feel-good bullshit like "it doesn't matter what you look like," so I needed to work through this on my terms. Time does help - I think too often we want to have an epiphany…

I admit I now want to see it again.

I still don't totally understand naming rights. I know it keeps the company name in people's heads, but, for example, are people going to buy insurance from Allstate because they went to Allstate Arena?