Fun fact: the “Public Dock” in Erie, PA was renamed “Dobbins Landing” in 1986 because the “L” in “Public” was wont to go missing all the time.

Warner’s had to let him onto the lot, and into storage, to take this pic. So as much as they poo-poo it they’re clearly not averse to releasing it. This is all a cleverly calculated PR campaign to gauge interest in doing so.

 A much better tune about the, um, subject.

This series is, so far, just so much fun.

Sympathy for the Devil plays at Trump rallies? Really? There’s a joke that writes itself.

My apologies; is this movie starring Adam Sandler, or Adam Driver? The headline says Sandler, but the body reads Driver.

Comedian John Crist has a great bit about how we in the US have drinks named after world disasters and/or terrorist acts. “Mudslide,” “Car bomb,” etc. He goes on to posit we wouldn’t feel so great if another country had a drink called “Hurricane Katrina. 13 ozs of alcohol in a 12 oz glass, with an upside down…

Got a refurbished Voyage for $100; couldn’t be happier. A crisper display, and much snappier interface, than my Paperwhite. 

Trump, Falwell, & Playboy
Wrote this nearly 3 years ago; didn’t realize it would prove to be prescient:

Sauron really does see.

The ultimate edition of Batman V. Superman, while still arguably not a good movie, was much more coherent and cohesive, and thus (subjectively) felt shorter than the theatrical release.

The most spurious claim of all is that what Chuck E. Cheese’s serves qualifies as pizza at all, and that it’s “good tasting.”

This Is... Us

Sounds awfully like a case of impotent rage, e.g., he felt powerless (he was powerless) in light of the assault upon his friend, and wanted to do something, anything, to wipe away that awful feeling of powerlessness. So in that sense, yes, he made it more about himself than his friend.

I tell myself that Man of Steel isn’t Superman, that it’s proto-Superman. He’s donned the suit, but he’s not there yet, and it’s his actions re: Zod that prompt him to develop his code. It’s an origin story set upon a dark tableau.

Looks like they missed one:

“What if the “devil’s plan” is to keep us all so distracted we feel exhausted from accomplishing very little? How would he do that? He would get us so focused on being offended that we exert lots of energy complaining, and in return we would be too tired to make a difference. Offense is everywhere. We get to chose if…

According to very little googling, Netflix is worth just under $10 billion, and the Mouse House just a little under $100 billion. Disney should just buy Netflix out at this point and own the Internet.

Using the metrics outlined above, it’s almost as if This Is Us could be considered a genre show. Sure, it’s about the human spirit, but it takes place non-linearly, bouncing back and forth through time in a nearly Heinleinian fashion. 

Absent the Doctor’s plan to deal with the spider queen, what would have been a more humane way to dispatch the dying arachnid? Remember, she was slowly suffocating due to her size.