The dog was the personification of his childhood innocence. At some pt something (the father?) disrupts that innocence and the dog becomes the Demon with the Yellow Eyes - a manifestation of everything that is angry and violent about David.

Everyone go read Stalin v. 1 by Stephen Kotkin. For an almost 1,000 page book it's breezy as hell, super fascinating, tons of amazing anecdotes drawn from the USSR archives, and you'll learn everything you ever wanted to know about Soviet Communism (or at least everything up till around 1928 - you'll need to wait for…

Disney has got a good record, including with more slow + deliberative films (cf Pixer) so I'm inclined to believe that there are real problems w/ the film (problems with a Star Wars film? hard to believe!) and Disney is doing quality control.

I'm sure this has been said a million times before but an honest to god The Muppet Show variety show with contemporary actors/comics and musical guests would've been a huge hit. The show they made instead was garbage.

fyi totally inconsequential grammar nerding but 'awhile' is an adjective. when you're using it as a noun, as in "that means for the first time in awhile," it really should be 'a while.' Similarly for the sentence "This wasn’t the most exciting episode of Raw but in many ways it was the most promising in awhile." A…