Pretty amazing when you consider how for decades it was all about how we needed an even more frenzied arms buildup or we'd all BE SPEAKING RUSSIAN by the turn of the century.

Well what would you do during a zombie apocalypse? Play Monopoly?

You can't "try to be pretentious" and fail at it. That is being pretentious.

Yeah…where's the Avengers trailer?

And Rupert Pupkin

Oh come on…that scene was so gratuitous but so great. It was just all about Knightley making her "sex face" that she does in all those perfume ads and like that, and sticking out her big old collagen-ed lips…something she's very, very good at.

She's not a beautiful woman? Or, she's only a beautiful woman when she's standing next to Keira Knightley?

Right, but, respectfully, that's what everybody else on the page (and everywhere else) is saying, whereas I'm saying something different, based on a difference between the stories that I feel everyone else is ignoring.

I saw The Duchess first so I had to eventually realize that Hayley Atwell's a very beautiful woman when she's not standing next to Keira Knightley.

Let's all take our hats off in memory of Doug Kenney.

Have you considered that maybe You Do It To Yourself?

Don't Sulk

Some call it the "Revolution 9" of the album. (I don't.)

I made this point below but I want to repeat it up here. It's just so frustrating that people are missing this fundamental defining point about the story (and what makes it different from the The Lord of the Rings story).

It's a very simple point that everyone's overlooking (which goes all the way back to the source material).

Someone on another site (I think it might have been Talking Points Memo) pointed out that you need to regard Trump in terms of the way he thinks he is, and how he thinks he's regarded: as this charming, roguish, brilliant businessman and real estate mogul who's hungered for by beautiful women of all ages and whose…

It especially makes me sad because this was the year of Interstellar, which was probably the biggest advance in cinematic sci-fi in decades. I mean, I feel like I've been waiting my whole life (or, at least, my life since 2001) for someone to actually go make the hard-SF movie along that most difficult and poetic of…

All right, but you have to admit that's at least an element of what's happening here. I mean she's naked and everyone's coming out of the movie nodding sagely and going "Oh yes; very interesting…very interesting indeed" and come on.

All right, fair enough. I'm sorry. You're right; I shouldn't have said that.

It's badly shot. There's no artistry to the photography. Watch something by Haskell Wexler if you want to see how source-lit neon nighttime can be made to look.