Even better!

You had me at "hilariously pompous."

Somebody else remembers that!

I think and hope anti-BDS legislation is something both parties can still agree on.

Precarious? This is America! You can just ride that desk into the future like your grandfather!

The only good draft dodgers are the enemy's.

Let's hope so.

It feels like that's what's being built up.

Oh shit, I forgot all about that.

1. They'll need a lot of them. They're fighting a mobile, sentient target.
2. If they don't hit the dragons, they have to come down somewhere.

I'm not holding my breath. HIV in these cases seems to always very almost disappear but never get totally eradicated.

Oh yes. But ironically, my chances of living my precocious adolescent dream of "diving in the Red Sea" are getting smaller and smaller.

Holy shit yes.

I'm perfectly okay with David Letterman being Santa Claus.

No, but the battle actually starts with an apparently dead guy sitting up, screaming, eyes bulging, and getting his brains blown all over the main character. It was very reminiscent of early Peter Jackson.

Try Hacksaw Ridge. That movie really does go into the aforementioned "Evil Dead territory."

Just because you're Jewish doesn't make you somebody. My thinking now is that, as an Ashkenazi (read: westernized upper-class) with an American film degree, A-list experience, and a distant cousin in Tel Aviv who's a cinematographer, I will be the Israeli equivalent of a British guy in Hollywood.

I'm pretty sure the arbiter of smooth is Hollywood Steve.

Maybe your pitchers.

It's a meritocracy, but just like most business in the US, the labor market is completely saturated, the work requirements go far beyond simply doing the job, the opportunities for upward mobility are slim to none, and there's an added bonus that people expect you to forsake payment out of love for your craft. This is…