I understand your point, however I’ll disagree in that I don’t think that’s a problem. I think you may see it as a possible weakness in their strategy, but just because it’s not a self-contained story doesn’t relegate it to mediocrity. I’m not sure it would be easy or even prudent to divorce Captain America from the…

That was my first thought. And don’t forget, dealer employees are a hard-ridden lot; I doubt most dealers are going to generously allow employees the time away from work they’ll surely require to achieve their academic goals. A lot of that money is going to go right to Strayer’s exec bonuses. Maybe Strayer will be…

He reeeeeeeallllly wants to channel the Dark Knight Returns’ version in this one. Zack Snyder must have the biggest man-crush on Frank Miller.

I do love the Udvar-Hazy Center. That place serves as a stark reminder that the National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall needs an overhaul. And regular dusting.

We’ll begin shooting in the second half of the year. Season two will come out about this time next year. Again, I’m imagining all this, but they’ll probably do Iron Fist or Luke Cage at the same time, followed by the other one [of the two] in the first half of 2016 and then maybe Defenders in the second half of 2016…

I feel very lucky. My mechanic (Gus’s in Plano TX for those in the area) uses an old gas station garage, it’s just Gus, his two sons and one other guy. Capable, reasonable, straightforward and - I think this says a lot - a lot of their repeat customers are women (a woman recommended them to me years ago). I’ve also…

I don’t know if coach can get much worse.

Or pay for the first/exit row seats. Used to be I could snag those for no additional $ if I booked early enough...

You’re going to have a tough time, no doubt. Leg room is tight for me, at a stubby 5’8”. Can’t imagine how you deal with it.

If coach can get slightly better/no worse seats out of selling these (and by slightly, I mean where the guy next to me that weighs 300+ lbs doesn’t have his elbow in my lap), then this is a good thing. I’m low maintenance, if I can get 40 winks slightly reclined, some uninterrupted development time, chomp on a chunk…

Viking Age Scandavia

That headline rang like a damn church bell in my head, and it resonated all the way back to the 4th grade davidlopan that was small, weird, afraid and contended daily with a verbally and physically abusive school teacher spawned from Satan's own offal. I never really thought about that aspect until now - I really did…

I agree, I actually learned to drive a stick there, and it was never dull. My GF was acrophobic, so I had to go a lot of places myself (or just deal with the breakdown).

While I was there, someone told me they have a rally race around the rim of that thing, which would be something, because it's not a pretty fall.

Bet they weren't expiating to see them looking back. Yep, we're all doomed. Thanks, science photographers.

Meanwhile, the Russo Brothers, directors of The Winter Soldier and Civil War, have signed a first-look picture deal with Sony, which some sites are taking to mean that they could be being considered by the company to helm the Marvel/Sony Spider-Man movie in 2017.

I'm going to take the middle ground here. I think it's important to recognize that the agreement sets up what Sony can do - which is make all creative decisions. Doesn't mean they won't take direction from KF, or follow MCU canon - just that they can choose not to, say in case the "partnership" becomes too…

Only the hell of waiting a few minutes more than necessary for a drink refill. They didn't click with me, but our views aren't mutually exclusive - and I'm well known to be a cranky old sorcerer.

They also mention that Marc Webb is out, while Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, producers on the Amazing films, are downgraded to the point that they have no creative control on the movie, and that Kevin Feige and Amy Pascal will produce the next Spider-Man movie.

Can we not have servers with video cameras, like all the damn Russian cars? Then take that video of these awful people and post it to the internet? Then I'll start a website that's Yelp for bad customers.