Yeah. To me, releasing on 2000 screens may actually have been a substantial part of the disconnect for the majority of your list. By and large they were niche genre films, and the distributor screwed up badly trying to push them out to a wider audience that never was going to be interested in it. This description also…

This is the best piece you’ve ever written on Jezebel, and I’m so sorry for your loss.

Thanks, interesting list.

Interstellar (which I loved), First Man (which I hated), and, partially, The Martian (which I saw)

Today was a tremendous day for democracy, and I’m more optimistic than you are.

there are rumors that a spinoff film is in the works

From This Day Forward is the book version of that piece, and a worthwhile read.

Good review. I’ll put a slightly different spin on it:

That gets complicated, but as I said above, it can be good to go first.

I can’t blame you for feeling that way. The one comment that I’d make that might help you a bit is that at this point we don’t even know if this was a recurrence; it is not out of the realm of possibility (especially given her family’s horrid history with cancer) that it may have even been an entirely separate primary.

The thinking behind said advice is that back sleeping could compress the blood vessels to the uterus and cause pregnancy complications, and that left-side sleeping increases circulation

If the movie is a hit, it wouldn’t surprise me if the powers that be decide this exact pattern should be the first utility uniform of the Space Force.

Back in my political days during the early 90s, I ran into her at an event someplace in DC. A few weeks earlier, she’d been on one of the ubiquitous talking head Sunday roundtables (This Week with David Brinkley, probably - to her everlasting credit she steadfastly refused to appear on McLaughlin) when some point…

Kyle Crick, the hero we didn’t know we needed.

This turned 40 today. The mic is thus suitably rocked by middle age, but it may now be your back that’s acting up at the Holiday Inn rather than your girl.

As I wrote last week, there are a wave of these coming in the next decade, and this one hurts. I really do wish I’d gone to their final tour in 2011.

He’s under the golden sun now.  I hope he caught the blue caboose.

Other way around.

As much as the end result is annoying, these are the most important lines in the pleading:

Coincidentally, I just read “The coming death of just about every rock legend” a few days back. The most sobering quote: