I completely disagree that replay is a bad thing. It’s a good thing that when viewers at home can see the correct call, that the call be changed. The problem is with the fuckery and incompetence with which replay is being executed. Particularly dumb is the new pass interference review. It looks for pass interference…

Yet, strangely, personal/mobile communications seems to have plateaued at the pager.

What if you bought your car outright? Like I paid $26K for my car five years ago, no service plan/extended warranty or anything. I always felt like five years was the minimum cutoff point where it wouldn’t cost me more per month than if I’d leased it instead. I do plan on leasing cars going forward because, having…

I don’t pay attention to most Photoshop updates, I just do my work, same as I have for years and years, every day. So... it’s sort of face-palmingly annoying that even though large portions of my high-volume photo editing work is literally selecting and plucking subjects out of photos, I had no idea there was a…

The “I guess if you want to write “Call for help” on the inside of a window, and you want it to look fancy.” was maybe my favorite answer, as well as the Purge-time tree pruning. Why does everyone always go straight to murder for the Purge? What if you just really hate your neighbor’s yard? Or you don’t want to pay…

Well, as long as you are conscientious about it I have no quarrel. It’s the people who always seem to have a million questions at like 5:30PM...

Also, while all that sounds nice and leisurely... HURRY THE FUCK UP PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THE BUTCHER/FISHMONGER TOO AND HAVE SHIT TO DO/PLACES TO BE. Read a freaking cookbook if you want to learn how to cook something. 

I remember when I didn’t have kids...

I actually think that is entirely 100% consistent of an attitude.

I’m pretty sure that if a New Hope and Empire were the only Star Wars movies ever released, and if the “lost” film Return of the Jedi were discovered and released in 2020, it would get lambasted and hated upon to no end. 

I like Stumptown just fine. I like the prestige TV shows as much as the next chap, but man, you can really get bogged down in the the “serious” shows. Stumptown is just... nice. It reminds of an early 2010s USA Network show, with a better cast and better guest stars (for the most part... I think Psych had a pretty…

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Heard him talk about it on the recent Bill Simmons podcast. And while he didn’t spend that much time on it, he did make sure to mention the different aspects of Tourrettes and being careful about how it was portrayed, and how it wasn’t just the narrow Hollywood depiction of verbal outbursts. I think he also mentioned…

Dude... Keeping the Faith isn’t even the worst Ben Stiller movie... Or worst Jenna Elfman movie for that matter.

It’s basically like Amazon Prime to me. I already have Prime for shipping so the streaming video is just a bonus. And I recently upgraded my phone so I’ll have Apple TV+ for free for a while. So I’ll definitely check out the slate of shows. Though I do wish they’d released the shows back in May or June. Too many shows…

It’s particularly effective at evoking that feeling when you consider that Sister Night drives an old Buick, and mobile communications haven’t evolved past the pager in Watchmen’s 2019.

I could watch her get into costume for like 10 minutes with that score. Like she just keeps grabbing new accessories, tying her shoes, re-applying facepaint that’s sweated off, knits a hole in her elbow, changes the oil in the car... just give me more.

Completely feel the other way about it. LOVE the score. Might be an overcorrection to the worst use of the song “Hallelujah” ever, but i think it really adds to the tension/immediacy of the scenes where it’s used. Doesn’t pop up often, just in key moments, and I think its used wonderfully. Not even a huge NIN/Trent…

Yeah, him being the second gunman was my immediate thought. I was waiting for him to slip up and reveal something about the shooting that he shouldn’t have known (like something about the convo about the xmas present), but no way that show would do that I think.