It's not my favorite Mann film by any stretch, and I realize the scene is ahistorical, but the shot of Nelson dying at the end of the big shootout, where you see his last breath expelled into the cold air next to the smoking Tommy gun, and then the gun keeps smoking while his breaths have ceased, is just fucking…

I've grown up enough to recognize that it's not Mel's finest work, but History of the World will always be my favorite of his movies. I saw it for the first time around age 10 or so, when I was just old enough to get the dirty jokes but not so old that they seemed juvenile. My friends and I must have watched that…

Intruder in the Plush

All of the online recommendation engines seem to be based on "someone else who bought/liked the thing you bought/liked also bought/liked this other thing, so maybe you will buy/like this other thing too!" But other people have terrible taste, or just buy random things at the same time. So Amazon will suggest to me…

I wouldn't put Mad Season on a par with Badmotorfinger or Nevermind or whatever one might consider the peak of Seattle grunge, but it's definitely worth listening to. "Wake Up," in particular, is gorgeous, and the lyrics are just as terrifying as anything off of Dirt.

What in unholy hell is your avatar pic? Others than pants-wettingly terrifying?

There are delicious graham crackers?!

I went to a concert at the local botanical gardens, more or less on a whim, some friends invited me last minute. It was a couple of string quartets, I didn't even make much note of which ones. Turns out one of them was by Peter Schickele (as himself, not as PDQ Bach)… and HE WAS THERE! They brought him onstage to…

I wonder what Serling would have made of the idea of replacing soldiers with robots, which is increasingly plausible nowadays. Do you sympathize with the soldiers whose lives are spared because a robot replaced them on the battlefield, or with the poor schmucks on the other side who are forced into combat with…

As in Helsinki, Sweden.

I loved the scene with the Eunoks.

Huh… Mars exploded.

The anti-vaccine BS, without a doubt. My grandmother was in a wheelchair for my entire life because she caught polio shortly after my mother was born (and about four years before the vaccine was made available). She died in 1987, of heart disease partly brought on by being confined to a chair for the last 36 years…

It's a testament to how extraordinary his career was that the article can name seven outstanding examples of Nichols's work and people in the comments can still make valid complaints about notable omissions. My vote goes to "Naked." That movie is an awful, terrible, miserable thing of beauty.

Didn't they do a similar gag in the Mel Gibson movie "Payback"? I haven't seen it in ages, but my I seem to remember a similar plot unfolding with an exploding phone.

A Packers fan who spells "favored" with a "u"? I call shenanigans. Shenanigans!

My custom wake-phrase is "Bitches leave."

Don't forget air conditioning. Fuck, where would we be without air conditioning.

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If you're gonna watch a movie directed by Dirty Harry, you gotta count the shells in the six-shooter.