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How about an alt-history that has Columbus's first mission sinking on the way -back- from the Americas?  The Europeans wouldn't know this hemisphere even existed, and the natives would have a big heads-up about those pale-skinned boat people.

I liked her as Pamela Landy in the Bourne films.

I do think that most, maybe all, of the most virulent homophobes are closet cases. Those guys who spend that much of their time hating gays, with such passion, and such specificity, and see gay symbology in everything?  Yeah, definitely gay.

Two things I'm certain of - there will be another big earthquake on the West Coast, and my beloved San Francisco will survive it.  It'll be a mess, but we'll clean it up and rebuild better than ever, like we always have.

Some commentary tracks are absolutely brilliant. For instance, for This Is Spinal Tap, the band got together to do the commentary, in character. Hi-fucking-larious.
I always listen to all the commentaries and check out all the bonus features because, hey, I paid for it right? And sometimes, I even like them. Mostly I…

I saw this because it has a small bit with one Stoney Burke, a guy I used to see doing his news-commentary ranting shtick on Dwinelle Plaza at UC Berkeley when I lived near the campus back in the '80s.
I stumbled here via the "Why did they ever make a movie of…?" Inventory article, and for some reason felt compelled to…

Thanks for this.

Among many other things, yes.

"Ace did not rinse his mouth out after brushing his teeth, somehow." I wonder if that's something he learned inside?  (Just speculation on my part.)

Oh, no!  Let's hope this isn't a **SPOILER ALERT**

Agreed. I know nothing of horse racing (even though there were two racetracks in my immediate area for most of my life, one of which I passed by on the freeway fairly regularly until it closed). Never really had much interest in it. But the masterful way Milch fills out the environment of his stories has me learning…

Instant recall: I meant the music they played during Gettin' Up Morning's exercise run, the way it built up really grabbed me.

I don't get that vibe from Joan Allen's character; she seems just like Ace describes, someone so used to "no" that "yes" kind of freaks her out.  On the other hand, it'd be interesting if she was put into play by Mike, the same way Ace sent the snotty kid bankster to Mike.

I've been enjoying the soundtrack music, though not the mix.  Gee, they're playing tense music when things are tense, and (what's the word?) propulsive music during the horse racing scenes, etc.  Isn't that what a soundtrack is supposed to do?  At least they don't use those mawkish swelling-emotion strings like every…

He was waiting for the stadium to start collapsing. Crixus got quite a bit more than "a cut on the face or whatever" before that happened.

"I wonder if she'll wind up commanding a women's corps in the revolt." - just to be clear, I mean Mira, not Naevia, who has a lot of training to do.

Perhaps part of the reason a motorcycle ride can feel so therapeutic.

@avclub-b27cf97c2e282465fba1406e71ffb55c:disqus Similar to what you describe - I being a good little space-geek got up early (West Coast) to watch the Challenger's historic launch, live.  When it blew up, at first I was just, wtf?  It took a few seconds for my brain to process what I'd seen.

shame on me for laughing at that