The shows sold out in my town which, believe me, was entirely unexpected. But then I live with Cornbillies who don’t have much to do during Christmas (shop, eat, drink). They’ll watch anything in a theatre and the love musicals around here (I don’t).

Hint to HBO: The dragons are one of the most boring parts of Game of Thrones, and everyone looks shitty in snow white wigs, so you don’t have to make every show about the Targaryens.

I think TV shows are also a trap because there’s a presumption on behalf of the audience that the show will get as many seasons as it “needs” to adapt the book(s), and that pushes up against the economic reality of the medium. 

I appreciate the thought and care you’ve put into your response. I’ll give it a careful read at some point, although to be frank, I don’t have the time to write the long response it deserves.

I didn’t have to read it, no. But I do have to read scripts by young screenwriters who may be influenced by that bullshit and who may decide that if HE can do it, so can they. And no, they can’t. Because he shouldn’t have either. He’s the director so it doesn’t particularly matter if the script is a bunch of twee…

I love this! I truly appreciated your comment. I live in NYC and the funny thing is that I never noticed Adam Driver was supposed to be ‘hot-hot’ until my gay male designers kept pointing it out and we all watched the last two season of Girls together while they teased me. I SO love and trust their taste. I had mainly…

My saying that it could be a better movie was honestly not a dig at Scorsese or at the movie. What I don’t want to say is that no one is capable of making a movie as good or better than this Scorsese take. There is a range of possibilities, a big one, and within that range is a better movie, not because it’s from an…

hurricanes would have no real issue on above ground track construction. It isn’t that different from regular concrete reinforced elevated tracks. The real issue would be protecting the reinforcing from corrosive salt air. 

Source: I design buildings and roads in florida.

Jamie Lee Curtis deserved a guest star nom for The Bear.

Nice post. Obligatory nitpick, the chops are usually not strictly proportional to the number of players left but proportional to the fraction of the total chips in play that each player has. E.g. three players and 100k chips in play with a payout of 1000, 500, and 250 for 1st, second and third. If the biggest stack is…

Does the 3800 V6 not count for anything? Also the Diablos are the best looking Lamborghinis ever made. The Countach is too spartan, the Murcielago is too smooth, and the Aventador looks like a 12 year old was told to design a car with a ruler.

I think if you combine the timing of Wednesday’s second season shooting schedule with Ortega’s new position as producer there’s a good chance she actually didn’t *want* to do the next movie and used this contract negotiation as a way out. If the producers cave she gets a nice payday along with greater negotiating…

A big part of it is also the MLM part. They buy the classes, but then they also become coaches themselves, and nearly all the money they manage to make from that goes right back to more classes... It becomes their job, their community, their family, and even though they’re not in a compound with the leader, they’ve…

Finally. OWL had been pinin’ for the fjords since year 3.

It was like a combination of the Dotcom bubble, the online journalism ad revenue crash, and Long Island Iced Tea Company changing their name to Long Blockchain, all rolled into one.

Many teams didn’t start out in their “host” cities. Many didn’t compete there. I…

This is my read of it too. They’re both human and strongly suspect as much. They know however, that because the communications equipment and transport have all been compromised beyond repair, they are beyond help or rescue and so decide to die as noble friends, sharing the last of the liquor and comprehending the…

For the record, I’m a fan of the theory that might honestly be the darkest, which is that both of them are completely human... but because of the reasonable paranoia of what they just went through, they’ll never, ever know that, and so they’ll just freeze to death.

“with Ray Liotta, you have a person who has a significant amount of market power”

Place was sold out, full of people who’d traveled from all over the country to put on his jersey and watch him strike out twice.

Because a guy acting like this has a reasonable expectation of getting slugged. Miss “I can handle my own” here, on the other hand, was acting with complete impunity and was probably pissed at her boyfriend after for not having her back. You’ve never seen a woman get in a guy’s face and insult his manhood for not…

Team Katy. This story has been bogus from the beginning.