I think there was a market pre-pandemic for such a thing (and I think there’s a good chance somebody else will try it after this is all over).

No, Quibi would’ve tanked even if we were outside socializing all the time, because it was an Old Media person’s idea of what “that New Media those kids are all the time watching on their Applephones!” is. It’s major stars, studio-produced television dramas and comedies, glossy game and reality shows, and not a New…

Hell, I’ve watched Endgame and Hamilton, both three-hours-ish shows, in 15-20 minute chunks over a week or so while cleaning my kitchen.

The thing is, when I want a “quick bite” (ugh) of entertainment to watch on my phone when on the shitter, YouTube has a bazillion chunks of everything from old Kids in the Hall sketches to sometimes astonishingly sharp amateur-made stuff that will keep me invested for as long as it takes to finish my bodily duties —…

There is a market for this sort of thing, and it’s served quite handily by Youtube, which is free, has better brand recognition, and uploads more new content in a day than Quibi could in a month.

They actually sell cacao juice from fresh cacao fruit and it tastes like slightly tart lychee.

so before being dried cocoa fruits are actually juicy. so basically this is using 100% cocoa + juice of the predried fruit so everything in it is 100% cocoa fruit.

Don’t all sodas taste basically the same?

He said it was him, as  joke, he never “agreed” to do it like it was some martyr mission CK sent him on or something.  Also, for accuracy, the women were not workplace subordinates.

He was a try hard. I went to college with a girl who went to high school with him, and she said he was a dorky loner asshole till he flipped the switch one day into full goth asshole. *shrug*

Yeah, people really need to understand this concept. I’ve had the unpleasant experience of having worked with a "normal-looking" dude who off-hours was raping twelve-year-old girls (which really makes the 'all pedophiles are homosexual' assumption infinitely infuriating). 

I think it’s more accurate to say that incels hate whatever it is they desire. So they hate the men who are the kind of men they wish they could be and they hate women too.  I imagine they would have hated MM, because he is rich and famous and has girlfriends. If they thought about him at all. 

It’s been over 30 years since I read the novel, but my memory is that Meyer Wolfsheim is a caricature of a Jew who is one dimensionally criminal. This memory was reinforced when the movie came out and Baz Luhrman specifically cast a non-Jew in the role to avoid the “some would say” anti-Semitism of the novel.

I remember reading a news story years ago about a guy who won a grant to shoot his proposed film. Instead, he spent the money on the revitalization of a foreign community. I wish I could find a link to the original story. And I hope the guy didn’t get sued or anything!

I saw the original cast of Cursed Child on Broadway and the stagecraft for the production was unlike anything I had seen before. For lack of a better word it was magical. Really helped to distract from the fact that the play itself was terrible fan fiction. And yet I’d still recommend it.

Rowling already has enough money for her grandkids to buy a university.

I’m not retconning her as a bad writer. I’m saying she’s a terrible screenwriter, and both the scripts for both of the Fantastic Beast movies show that (I’m also not fond of David Yates as a director for Harry Potter films, but they’re not all terrible). 

I can’t stand marshmallows but LOVE toasted marshmallows.  

I’m actually a pretty big fan of cauliflower rice - I think it’s great if you make fried rice - but all those other cauliflower subs are suss as hell.

I have actually had some good sushi made with cauliflower rice (really!) but good cauliflower rice takes a lot of time and work to make (you got to bake it so it dries out a bit)