Come on now, was it Mayanese or the tangy zip of Miracle Whip?

Come on now, was it Mayanese or the tangy zip of Miracle Whip?

'The Pledge' is good. 'Independence Day' is not.

"the actual moment someone shifts into paranoia is really scary"

CW—I'm thinking the Aztecs would've loved that.

Would you believe a dessert at Outback Steakhouse after Mel Gibson buys a controlling interest?

"no one thinks about decades in those terms or from that point of view"

A similar thought occurred to me when Katrina hit. But it's not just rich vs. poor—Most of America is so estranged from the "essential skills".See how the American urban poor faired in New Orleans, even after the water receded. I was driving around my then mother-in-law who's from Uganda, and we were talking about…

Ain't no party like an Ingsoc Party, 'cause an Ingsoc Party don't quit, y'all!

It's not an argument I'd make with any conviction, knowing how much some Hollywood players get paid, but arguably this fed all of the people who were employed in making it and all of the people across the country and around the world who make a living off of the film industry and its ancillaries. Not all of them make…

I too enjoy forgettable experiences while using recreational drugs that negatively affect the memory.

Resolved! "Crumbling Christ the Redeemer" will be my new professional wrestling name.

"Something about them being above blame"

I can see there are real gaps in people's Pre-Columbian history. The Mayans didn't know about ice cream—they were, however, enamored of flan (and still are, if the international aisle of my local Giant is any indication). The Incas, living at higher altitudes, preferred hot desserts—peach cobbler or apple brown…

You may not be ted danson, but you are right about Spielberg and kids—He also had a knack for getting excellent, naturalistic "kid" performances from them. The last great one was 'Poltergeist' (You can't tell me Hooper got that from Heather O'Rourke) or maybe 'Empire of the Sun' where Cristian Bale had to carry the…

what's a few billion corpses when a photogenic lead is at stake?
The problem with a truly apocolyptic plot, is that with everything at stake—nothing is. Sure, if there's a possibility to save the world or the universe, it's good cinema (see also James Bond, Ghostbusters, etc.) but if the destruction is inevitable,…

Okay—I'll cop to the attitude. But whenever an individual swims against a tide in relation to popular criticism, and looks at a thing everyone loves and thinks "I don't get it", they can either pretend to themselves that they do "get it" (in an act of bad faith), keep quiet and let conventional wisdom reign (against…

More on decades (or Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis)—if anyone's still reading—Yes, a decade is any group of ten years. But the original complaint was technically correct if formulated from the point of view that any given century is broken into definite ten year units, which for the 21st century (since there was no year…

Aw, Fuck it—
'The Backyardigans'

Greatest episode of 'Futurama' is 'The Deep South'.