Thank my misspent youth for that knowledge.

“Stepped on” means cut with some other, usually innocuous, substance.

Yes, but thenhe was avenging his son. This was the first time he cold-bloodedly killed someone he respected and knew was a good person. That’s why he punched Kai for insulting Ziegler, but didn’t punch the other German who directly insulted him with, “He was worth 50 of you.”

Yes, for the love of God!

* “Raging Bull”plus “After Hours”—it’s been a while since we’ve had so many movie references from Jimmy.

And now Americans hear, “You want rational elections, decent healthcare and social equality? Just fuck off to Sweden, then.”

“A mandatory, yet affordable healthcare system that’s kinda like Medicare for everyone” would probably be more like it.

And we’ve had nearly that many years of experience with Harrison Ford, and we still can’t get him quite right.

Several Violent Femmes songs would qualify, but “Sweet Misery Blues” is probably the best pick:

Somewhat unrelated... Some years ago, I met a young lady named Allison who told me she was named “after the song.” I said, “Your parents must have really liked Elvis Costello.” She said, “No, the Pixies.”

This was long before mobile phones, so he has to use a pay phone. If he called from hos home phone, his wife might hear.

It should be remembered that the Nazis never received more than 37% of the popular vote in a free election. And calls for genocide were never a part of their platform in public.

Rereading Flannery O’Connor’s short stories.

Or the American remake of The Vanishing, which completed neutered the dread of the original and tacked on a travesty of a happy ending.

White men being in charge “since the beginning of time” is a pretty big stretch. It’s really only been the last 400-500 years. Before that it was Chinese men in China, Indian men in India, African men in Africa.... and so on. So, basically, men in general.

“...Hypertrichotic mutants from the Uncanny Valley Of Dr. Moreau.”

Subversion is another name for evolution. Today’s subversion is tomorrow’s convention.

There are plenty of talented, underemployed feline actors in America, but Hooper chose to cast the entire film with humans in catface. Disgraceful. #catssohuman

The Chinese government just released a series of rules for both domestic and imported films. Among the banned items are: premeditated murder, acts of terrorism, police corruption, reincarnation, romance between high school students, romance between humans and aliens or androids, university professor/student romance,…

I read it the same way.