Once again, Paddy’s Pub was shut out of Philadelphia’s Annual Bar Assiciation Awards.

The Onion’s Our Dumb Century entry for 1916:

That idea sets up the nice joke at the end when Andy gets the puppy.

I could never get past the basic idea if DH2, which is that planes would circle Dulles Airport cut off from all radio contact until they ran out of fuel and crashed.

Tim Allen was great in Galaxy Quest too. He does great with the right well structured role. I wonder if he is like Adam Sandler and could go even further with the right script and director, although I don’t know if he wants to.

You are a monster.

I hope this covers the great story where Feynman was getting the runaround about the O rings working in cold weather, so he just demonstrated at a hearing how he squeezed one with a clamp and dropped it in ice water to show how they didn’t work.

I think she was mostly the face of a much larger system that was horrible to people with mental illness and people who were treated as if they had mental illness, and the real villain was that system.

Many people also have aversions to accordions after witnessing someone being flattened by an anvil.

A lot of people who think they are gluten intolerant are actually people who have some type of problem with carbs, with ABS being one of them. By zealously weaning themselves off of anything with trace amounts of wheat, they may end up dramatically cutting their carb intake and significantly improving their health.…

What was frustrating is that many products in demand weren’t nearly as complex as cars, but major stores wouldn’t make the changes to sell them.

That will be the subject of a Kelly political cartoon soon. The question is whether the Statue of Liberty will be smiling (Kelly is a fan of classic TV) as they reunite in heaven, or if the Statue will be crying (Kelly is a xenophobe and thinks the English are snobs) as they reunite in hell.

There is some hope. His Dad went to prison for forgetting the basic rule “Don’t do crimes and then make all of the witnesses mad at you.” I don’t know whether Kushner crossed the line into felony territory, but he pretty certainly has made a lot of witnesses mad at him.

It seems to me the ultimate villain here is Disney for not locking every director and producer in a box before the script was even written and forcing them to come up with a strong outline for all three.

“seven of them were under 15 and were not arrested. Instead their parents were called and the boys “were spanked ignominiously” by order of the lieutenant running the police station.”

No way does he have the background for that.

I think the biggest twist of the knife is having them finally cross paths again and she has clearly, unrevokably moved on. She’s not even mad at him.

All of these details about the decision making behind the scenes are tremendous. I especially liked the line “the danger is that you have a big idea and then you throw the characters out the window, because you want your cookie” because I think that’s the thing that has ruined a lot of serial dramas.

I think the best explanation for her being out of the picture in Breaking Bad is she and Saul just end it. I think they respect the actors and characters enough to know that the biggest and best challenge is to generate the breakup from emotional reasons rather than plot mechanics.

I get the sense from reading about the implementation that there were a million committee meetings and memos written in triplicate in carbon paper and embarassing ten minute film strips that were shown between shorts on VD prevention and proper foit care.