What a great and thorough write up, Tyler. Thank you for it. It’s amazing to think that the line between reality and science fiction in warfare is an actual budget line.

If you’re having trouble parsing why this is such a big deal, here’s a dose of perspective that’ll make your eyes bulge out: Verkhoyansk, a town that’s even farther north than Fairbanks, Alaska, has had the same number of 10o-degree days on record as Miami, Florida. (Sure, it’s only one, but tell me that’s not insane.)

Motion (as in motion of the arts) mastery has always been a hallmark of the movies from Sudio Ghibli (and their pre-Ghibli earlier collaborations).

Hard pass.

Completely missed opportunity to show a tight two minute ad video of a group of people playing this game that quickly devolves into an incestuous orgy, stabbing of someone, and the murder of everyone else. When you say yell “uno”in this game, the other players let you think you win but quickly set you on fire.

Completely missed opportunity to show a tight two minute ad video of a group of people playing this game that…

“We have a collection of DC films that will rotate on the platform,” the representative said. “We have a new batch coming in July and then another batch coming in August. And I have just confirmed that the batch that is on right now will be returning.”

They have been that way since the 90s, and I imagine it goes back to its foundation in the 60s.

So when can we downvote articles on kinja... because it’s clearly time to start jettisoning writers who fail so terribly at addressing the real problems causing everyone to march outside in the real world.

It’s really not a bad idea. I try to only use my watch for phone calls, messages, etc. I keep it on vibrate, and I avoid using my old iPhone (or buying a new one) because I just want to avoid screens as much as possible because of the way that the instant you unlock a screen, small or large, it changes how you think…

How else will we blown away by their cultural triumphs in music, paintings, the Stage, and other arts without that money?

1. Is it safe to hook up again? 2. Will it be safe to hook up again soon? 3. You’ll tell us when it’s safe to hook up again, right?

I watched the last half of the penultimate episode and then the final episode with my father this last week, and as part of my 60 second synopsis for the series, I warned him that the show went into Face/Off rules incredibly early in the season because he had to know that to understand what’s happening. He wasn’t…

Studio Ghibli films remain a streaming non-entity (until the debut of HBO Max, at least) so if you want to enjoy any selections from their filmography, you’ve gotta pick up a physical copy.

Studio Ghibli films remain a streaming non-entity (until the debut of HBO Max, at least) so if you want to enjoy…

Yeah, Morty is 14. He is underdeveloped physically, living at that strange pubescent age when one doesn’t feel like one is really “a high schooler” and still mostly identifies as a little kid, having survived the trauma that is middle school only to discover that just being in high school doesn’t make him an adult or…

No worries!

It’s actually on right now, Sunday night with a three episode block from 11 PM until 12:30 AM. OK, so it is being aired in three episode blocks on SyFy every Sunday night.

Actually they’re airing it on SyFy on cable!

If you haven’t seen them before, there is a fascinating series of videos from Collative Learning that take deep, well-researched, analytic dives into Kubrick’s The Shining. This first one goes through how the set was built, and if you’ve never given much thought to the complexity of it, and how brilliantly the set…

I hear you completely. I have a videographic memory and spent a great deal of time professionally working as an editor. All of those little things add up over time, at least for me, and it started driving me crazy, so I ended up switching tracks (with certain exceptions, of course).