Thinking of Walmart as “the water hole” made me smile — but it’s true.

She rides that Rascal scooter for respect!

She looks better every time — here, she’s so delightfully soft serve with sprinkles.

Miss Hale does — at first. (Where the hell did they get the horrible hat, anyway? In 1854, a middle class girl would wear a bonnet in town, not a hat. It may be part of a riding habit, but even so: ugh.)

Thanks for the tip! It sounds just like my sugar.

That hissing sound was me gasping at the idea of thick brows in films set in the 1920s through at least the early 1950s (Ingrid Bergman and especially Audrey Hepburn started bringing them back). Appalling.

Ha ha, yes, Sharpe survived about 10 movies, and about 37 cases of deathly peril. Maybe because he didn’t wear a hat he was less of a target. I highly recommend them; sometimes dumb, but always fun.

I’m sure that’s true, but that doesn’t stop the meanies from dressing up. And one must suffer for one’s art.

Thank heaven there are some productions that care about getting things right, or I would already have blown a gasket.

This drives me berserk about so-called historical movies. In the past, people wore hats, wigs, kerchiefs, or some other kind of headgear almost all the time, including in bed. Even people who had no shoes wore hats.

Of course, you could say you’re harnessing the fire, maintaining it, and using it for an important purpose. Or even creating fire, if you’re talking about banging certain rocks together. But you’re not making the fire itself, the way you would make sewing needles, paper, or the other items on the list.

Needles and rocks: two great technology that are great together.

I don’t consider fire a technology so much as a natural resource. Shaping rocks to hit and scrape stuff with is the oldest, but boring, and also how often do humans use rocks as hand tools nowadays?

Kim Jee-woon’s A Bittersweet Life is influenced by Tarantino; mostly Kill Bill, but also Pulp Fiction, and others. Tarantino is heavily influenced by Far Eastern films, so fair’s fair.

Why would one need to have a special technical rehearsal for a death, as opposed to any other major news? Let alone one involving a twit and a tweet?

Even the smartest, most dedicated and professional people can make mistakes and be killed by the animals they love.

Tush. They live in Alberta. You mean conservative politicians, industrial polluters, and compromised environmental “scientists”. And corrupt oil barons, obviously.

It works in rare situations, if used sparingly. For example, United 93. We can probably agree being aboard a crashing plane calls for some shakiness.

Nothing’s more satisfying than getting rid of all evidence.

It’s also no longer mandatory to speak in French when you can’t think of the English for a thing—turn your toes out when you walk—and remember who you are!