Definitely was not crazy about him in Star Wars, but it was reasonably good when Adam Driver played a bus driver named Paterson who lived in Paterson, New Jersey. Perhaps it belies the actual nuance of the film to say there seemed to be a lot of twins in the movie.

The future fiction that annoys me the most is stuff that assumes fundamental changes to human nature. Some people (Exhibit A: Gene Roddenberry) are so aspirational that they build whole universes on ideas that you can debunk in 10 minutes on an elementary school playground.

When you're in school everyone tells you that plagiarism is a horrible sin, but once you get out in the working world you discover that plagiarism is an incredibly valuable professional skill. That said, journalism is one of those fields where I really hope that people are using critical thinking somewhere between…

If you only know Kris Kristofferson from movies and music, it's kind of surreal to read his bio. Rhodes Scholar? Army helicopter pilot?

SPLC has a long and very distinguished history, but in recent years they've lost a lot of their credibility. Many of the groups they target are legitimate hate groups (and I join them in condemning those groups!) but they're also quick to slap the hate group label on political opponents who simply have ideological…

Liam Gallagher is . . . Hobo Millionare.

Palm Palms?

I'm with you on the Ragamuffin thing, although that has a lot to do with my enduring affection for the music of Rich Mullins.

Oh no! He's filming on location in Mexico City!

They're all starting to regret eating all that Thai food last night.

Well, they've been putting tiny Go-Bots on Mars for years.

I find it hard to believe that you could be both simultaneously.

I feel like one of the biggest blows to bringing the book to screen was The Kingsmen, which seemed to have a deeply similar concept but without the amnesia or supernatural element. I know those are big differences, but the feel of the movie was very similar to what I imagined a movie version of The Rook would be like.

So this might be a decent occasion to ask this: I'd like to get a little better a photo editing—not professional, just basic competency. I have GIMP, and might be able to get Photoshop at work. Any recommendations for the best references to look at? Periodically I'll check a book out from the library or watch a…

Well, and sometimes the fact that Notepad barely does anything is a feature. Programs that try a little too hard to "make your job easier" in all the wrong ways can be wildly frustrating.

I've been using Windows 7 for years now, and I kinda feel like it's the Windows XP situation all over again—it works well, and I'm pretty dismayed Microsoft moved on so quickly.

*weary sigh*

I know that writing comic books is not the same as screenwriting, but I really wish they would get Mark Waid in the writer's room for the Flash movie. He just has a deep understanding of what makes Flash interesting, and was really good at playing that out when he wrote for the comic book.

End-of-the-movie twist: Nano Man!

Mild tangent, but based on the trailers I get the impression that this film is yet another war movie that—for all its innovations—sits in the long shadow of Saving Private Ryan. There's the quite noticeable desaturation, of course, but I feel like there are a thousand other touches that Spielberg used that are now…