There is something to be said, particularly in a visual storytelling medium like film, for NOT explaining everything. Both Alien and Aliens are stronger films without any backstory on the xenomorphs; they are just implacable foes to be overcome. Explaining them is almost certainly going to diminish them in some way.

All military weapons are built from functional requirements. What is the functional requirement for long, static legs? Unless these things were designed to fight in a very specific aquatic or forest environment where being 20 meters above ground or seabed level was required, AT-ATs are just poorly designed from jump…

Olyphant was absolutely great in Justified; he’s going to give Baby Yoda a run for its money on charm.

This show was never as good as “In Search of . . .”

Probably just a father or grandfather of the brothers he already played.

“Like maybe the long, long wait for Josh Boone’s Marvel adaptation will be worth it.”

“odd and unkempt in a way that suggests a high level of intelligence and an equally high level of disorganization”

Actual dad here.  Bob Belcher is absolutely the no. 1 dad.

Wasn’t he Christopher Lloyd’s brother?

“I am really sad this series is over. “

Serious question (and one that may reveal an astonishing ignorance on my part): is it possible that we modern H. Sapiens are actually different sub-species? Instead of all of us being H. Sapiens Sapiens, some of us are H. Sapiens XXX, others H. Sapiens YYY, while still others are H. Sapiens ZZZ?  Wouldn’t that open up…

Who is the target audience for Warworld?  Are Guests going to be Nazis or are they going to experience the stress of being a part of the resistance, which involved a lot of little actions, all with the consequence of death for failure?  I just don’t see uber-rich people signing up for it.

You’re telling me that a man with well-documented mental health issues and his fatuous nincompoop of a wife were lying in 2016? I’m shocked. Wait, we ARE talking about Trump, right? #ibelievetaylor

Hats off to all those kids; really nicely done.  But who’s the boy with glasses in the upper left?  Stand-out.

Most of the San Francisco Bay Area is about to go into mandatory lockdown: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/03/16/read-shelter-in-place-order-from-six-bay-area-counties/

6) Finally Be Funny

The optimistic future of the “United Planet” is a fairy-tale that will never happen. Human beings have an enormous capacity to be counter-productively shitty to each other. Like it or not, a nation needs a military system to ensure its security. Any military has to be built on the philosophy that every one of its…

When the most powerful man in the world acts like he is dictator-for-life and is supported in that by his acolytes, when he is so immune to criticism that he can bumble the nation’s response to a global pandemic, making it certain that America will have a higher death rate than even some of the “shithole countries” he…

Well fuck. Yesterday, I was trying to put the best spin possible on staying home, alone, with no sports to watch, and I came up with “Hey, I’ve got time now to watch some shows I’ve never tried.”  Now you’re telling me that all original content is soon to dry up?  Fuckin’ Trump.

The only upside for the American “consumer” to Trump publicly trotting out a bunch of CEOs to combat a pandemic is the chance that Trump infects those same CEOs with COVID-19 and they all.  Fucking.  Die.