I'm really looking forward to this movie, but I'm also expecting that any actor who portrays Moranis is just going to make me really miss the real Moranis. Louis Tully!

Its the body of Riggs and the setting, but with none of the goofball humor.

As others have said, the Grateful Dead have put out a few albums containing actual songs that happen to be very good. However, those are usually albums the typical Deadhead disavows. I don't understand it either and I don't think that doing psychedelics automatically opens your mind to the formless and noodly non…

"I’m a different person today than I was yesterday." Oh Grandpa, that's just dementia!

I will always remember the line towards the beginning of the story when Batman comes out of retirement and takes off through the storm: "The rain on my chest is a baptism. I'm a man of forty, of thirty again." That was nice.

That is fun! (Sarcasm)

So I've heard. A friend of mine from Cali who bartended in Darwin said he was pretty shocked by the level of casual racism he would frequently encounter from liquored up white men.

I agree. London and NY are very diverse and that is their nature/character but it's hard to say "The typical Londoner or New Yorker is such and such" or rather, you CAN say things like that which fit, but they tend not to be very interesting (to me). I mean you could say, "The typical Londoner is very busy, works…

I guess my point is that communities are like cooking. If you cook a meal that has a thousand ingredients, it seems to lose any distinct flavor. It might be interesting (it might not) but it becomes hard to ascertain any distinct flavor or character. But if you cook a meal that has fewer ingredients, you are likely…

Well, that was filmed in Washington State. A facsimile of small-town AK life, but not very accurate I think.

Yeah he does seem nostalgic. But one can be nostalgic about communities before they became globalized without being a racist. As a city becomes more and more "international" (ie. London, New York, Paris) the "culture" becomes less identifiable. At least to me. I mean, I'm from Anchorage, AK which is extremely…

He was smiley like Chekov, but his smile seemed kind of menacing. Plus, I never heard him call anyone around him "Kyeptin'"

Exactly. This is not well reported history for most Americans, because it exposed incredible venality and stupidity among elite Ivy League advisers who had the explicit blessing of the U.S. government. I guess if you are making money from your laissez-faire hogwash advice, it makes it even easier to keep believing…

Always been burnin'. Since the world's been turnin'.

Bingo. "After speaking with many of those involved and examining previously classified British and German documents in detail, SPIEGEL has concluded that there was no doubt that the West did everything it could to give the Soviets the impression that NATO membership was out of the question for countries like Poland,…

Yes, but you all eventually stopped Viking and went home or intermarried so well into the conquered lands that no one today is still pissed. Hell, everyone thinks Vikings are cool. Well played Scandinavia. Well played indeed.

I met a Russian the other day. I told him I was from Alaska. He said, ah, "Russia!" And I said, "well formerly, many years ago." And he said, "No, forever Russia!" Like fucking hell, I thought. Wasn't the first time I've heard a Russian say something like that about AK, but it's just chest pounding.

Gorbachev was a humane nerd who did want to transform the USSR into something resembling socialist Scandinavia, as far as I know. Regardless, it all got away from him. Still though, he might very well had succeeded if the USA had declared something akin to a "Marshall Plan" for Russia as we did for Germany. …

My mechanic is Dutch. He misses his family, the History and being able to drive to a whole bunch of different countries in a day's time but he says he will never move back. Why? Too many people, too many rules.

Yeah, Scandinavia (particularly northern Sweden, Norway and really most of Finland) is the last of wild western Europe I think. I went to school in Vaxjo, Sweden for a semester many years ago, so I wasn't up in the wilderness, but - Scandinavia is lovely in so many ways. Parts are a lot like Alaska geographically…