I figured we’d be on COVAids-24 by now.

The only rational answer is that the A.V. Club is run by masochists who enjoy being insulted for their shoddy writing and editing.

I consider it a minor miracle that comments have been turned back on, apparently with no other changes (...like a Jezebel-style paywall). Not that that won’t happen, but I’d resigned myself to the A.V. Club’s final curtain call.

Mmm... Independence Day and Men in Black I’d miss. Enemy of the State barely skirts the line. Everything else, nah.

Much like the tourists were tired of dinosaurs in Jurassic World, I’m tired of Jurassic World movies. The only solution is to genetically engineer a new Jurassic World movie that eats people.

Following me around, eh?

While drunk?

Back in the late ‘90s I was working at a movie theater and Robert Wuhl came up to the window to buy a ticket. I said, “Hey, I love Arliss” and he gave me a look like he couldn’t understand why anyone would say such a thing.

“Did we really need the scene where Riley Reid gets crushed by an anvil?”

—- and you get prizes for watching

It actually was! I enjoyed it more this time through, having a better sense of what was happening. Not that I didn’t enjoy it the first time, but having all the pieces slotted into place beforehand made the narrative stronger.

The default price is $199 for one year, but they pretty often do $99 sales. It’s a 10-screen multiplex and they have a pretty good selection of films. E.g. in the months leading up to the Oscars they were re-showing a ton of the nominated films, even those that had been released a while ago. Plus they do a series…

I’m gonna!

About to go see Dune 2 again because my kid’s home for spring break and wants to see it. I have an annual pass at my local theater that gives me 1 free ticket per day, so if I see everything else I’m more interested in, I might watch GB:FE, but... I also don’t want to encourage them?

Ah, the high road.

PHRASING

I dunno, I think Baldwin might have missed his shot.

(Why are you greyed?! This world has descended into madness.)

Think real hard and you might be able to comprehend the difference between these two statements:

Mountains of cocaine ain’t gonna buy themselves!