This clears up one of the parts of this story that has always mystified me: why didn’t Giannulli and Loughlin simply participate in the legal grift USC has been (in)famous for over multiple decades?

Wurtzel’s New York life, at the end, wasn’t as glamorous

Yeah, I think my objections probably boil down to that it overdid the drama in a few scenes like that when it didn’t really need to - there was more than enough intrinsically underlying the movie.

I saw it and liked it quite a bit. I liked how my guesses at the narrative were wrong; Mendes did a good job obscuring where he was taking the film.

So American is offering waivers on most cities throughout the Midwest that connect through O’Hare, but unlike United won’t let you change either a flight to ORD itself or any other flight that connects through it (like, oh, about a third of their international flights.)

That fucking sountrack was everywhere every moment of the day and night.

Interesting, thanks.  Edit: answer to pungent spice question found below!

As that process drags on, a growing number of homegrown companies are developing plant-based meat products designed for Chinese consumers. One vegetarian-protein maker in Shenzhen, Whole Perfect Food, offers a stewed pork meatball that resembles “lion’s head,” a staple of southern Chinese cuisine.

Why human beings voluntarily live in these sorts of weather conditions we may never be able to understand

With more recent scholarship on George Washington suggesting that he was neither a paragon of chivalry nor a great commander at Fort Necessity, I’d love to see Fukunaga somehow incorporate it in this adaptation.

I’ll ungrey this because it’s fair and something I should have noted in my original comment.

In the context of everything that’s going on, this showed up in the middle of my NATSEC twitter feed from a reporter for Task and Purpose (one of the better news organizations doing military reporting.)

became a kind of bible for Gen-Xers

So then from the picture would you say that Hader is roughly your size back then or even smaller?  I had no idea he was tiny as well.

The recent Disney acquisition gives me the impression that they are not interested in ending it anytime soon.

I watched this over the weekend and overall enjoyed it.

Actually, at the beginning of OIF/OEF, most senior NCOs and company commanders and up were Gen X while junior enlisted, some NCOs, and some platoon leaders were millennials. Your assertion holds up later in the war, and casualties in general in all conflicts are disproportionate towards juniors, but years back I did…

Finally watched Rise of Skywalker at 4 pm on Friday afternoon in a ~700 seat theater that had perhaps 25 people in it.

Yeah, I didn’t understand either why the miniseries got slammed the way it did. The miniseries wasn’t exceptional, but it wasn’t bad either and most importantly, they didn’t screw up the book - which is generally acknowledged as one of the all-time toughest adaptations possible. As a contained standalone, it was…

The guard reportedly placed a hand on Sean’s chest in an effort to gain some space.