Not from LA, these are nice landmarks and as a historian i’m sad to see them close but these handwringing articles are just twinkies redux. Somebody is going to buy the choice theaters with historic preservation in mind and keep them open. Quentin Tarantino alone could grab them up let alone an investment firm or any…

I just finished typing out a reply about this exact issue...this is much more succinct than my write up but thank you for making this point. :D

Tyson’s statement is reductive and an argument to authority, that science in and of itself has a foundational truth which is what the steak brand ambassador at the head of their account pointed out as a fallacy. Also, anybody who has a degree explicitly in philosophy is somebody I do not trust. They spent an…

You do grasp it was satire and a comic premise, right?  Please, if this is multiple layers of comedy you went to far and it turned into earnest confusion.

Before we had good superhero movies it was considered the gold standard and still was only a ‘cult classic.’  That being said:  Totally an amazing movie and while a little dated worth the watch.  Ben Stiller is the only letdown in that film as everything Ben Stiller has ever done has been a letdown.

They’ve done that in 2 of the last 4 movies with femme fatales.  How many more times would they exploit it?  

That looks so awesome and no, it’s probably solid wood, multiple pieces though.  There are only two eras where these guitars were made out of MDF-related materials, when they popped up in the 60s and became a big part of early punk because they were so cheap and sold mainly under store brand names like Silvertone and…

I remember the original article noted she smashed a far cheaper variant (hence why it’s fiberboard and resin) than her normal solid wood model.  It would have behooved her to have them hit it with a hammer in the back a few times or even cut a few notches where nobody could see so she could smash it.  I had to look up…

I’ve been digging her groove but the guitar smashing felt so out of place for her general singer-songwriter style.  It’s a cheap model that’s basically fiberboard encapsulated in resin, smashing it is undeniably hard.  Why earlier guitars were easier to break is that they largely were made from multiple pieces of…

I normally commit to exits but this is how we both know you were in a rage trolling and can’t back down now. You single posted....so yeah, again, if you’re going to go full blowhard troll, remember: If they don’t bite on the first double post and keep forking the conversation with you, you should stop. It makes you…

A WWII vet is really the only reason I have a vague respect for him but again, he was a privileged Naval officer so that’s really tamped down by comparison.  He seemed like a decent person to his wife, they stayed married for a very long time but otherwise he was basically a man of a privileged life that I have no…

Playing volleyball in HS and then in college, this was on heavy repeat in every gym I stepped foot in to.  It was such a part of that time, he was the music of that block of time and there was no getting around it.  He was talented and troubled, shame to see him die so young.

Hey, just to be clear since this is my last reply: Double posting is the weirdest troll approach I’ve seen somebody take in a while, like you can’t handle your original thought in one go and instead have done this now atleast three separate times, this has got to be intentional or you’re that unhinged?

Whatever helps…

Indy’s kid from a random tryst is my guess or wholly unrelated much younger underling now representing the 1960s? The last movie took place in the 1950s, so jumping Indy to the 1960s seems reasonable, it roughly coincides with his life.

Yeah, i’m out.  You’re not worth it.  I wasted energy trying to talk to a walking tumblr post, thankfully my students have a better grasp of social issues than you seem to. 

Cool, so I guess i’m not a PhD holder in political science even though I’ve been posting under this name for years now with Kinja and before when we had disqus and been able to write extensively on my credentials.

Flagrant lie =/= Propaganda

So, you’re going full tumblr crusader...cool, i’m checking out.  No reason to bother, you’re all in on virtue signaling and i’m just not into this fight.  Your follow up statement shows you understand the distinction but have a propaganda goal.  

So, as an adult educated woman, I don’t like this tumblr style rebranding of sexual power dynamics as ‘everybody over 18 is by default a pedophile if they lust after somebody less than 18' because it’s reductive and self-defeating.

If this is your flounce where you try to put the onus on me for calling you out for being factually wrong, that’s what we call ‘gaslighting.’ I suggest you just stop.