Thinking that this story was probably going to be about a chimp, I clicked on this link ready to give my best Clint Eastwood style "it's an ape damn it,".  But no, that really is a goddamn monkey

Thinking that this story was probably going to be about a chimp, I clicked on this link ready to give my best Clint Eastwood style "it's an ape damn it,".  But no, that really is a goddamn monkey

Has there ever been a LeCarre parody?  All the spy spoofs I can think of fall into the Bond mold.

Has there ever been a LeCarre parody?  All the spy spoofs I can think of fall into the Bond mold.

As I said in the Newswire thread, it's hard for me to get that worked up about lists like this, because I know that Wizard People Dear Reader will never even be eligible for said lists.

As I said in the Newswire thread, it's hard for me to get that worked up about lists like this, because I know that Wizard People Dear Reader will never even be eligible for said lists.

One can only hope that a feature film version is in the works.

One can only hope that a feature film version is in the works.

Wizard People, Dear Reader will never be considered eligible for top films lists, so I will never be able to fully invest myself in caring about top films lists

Wizard People, Dear Reader will never be considered eligible for top films lists, so I will never be able to fully invest myself in caring about top films lists

Everyone says that you could take any frame of an Ozu film and it would be a beautiful photograph, but you know that in some of those frames the actors are all going to look high as all fucking shit.

Everyone says that you could take any frame of an Ozu film and it would be a beautiful photograph, but you know that in some of those frames the actors are all going to look high as all fucking shit.

Glucose drip.

Glucose drip.

Humorless and silly is the deadliest of combos.  I didn't find TDKR that silly, so it worked well enough for me.  The work in the nerd canon that led me to the conclusion that humorlessness and silliness were the worst possible combination was the first episode of The Prisoner.  Good lord did I find that thing…

Also their dinner date

While Brand and Cook can be obnoxious, I don't think anything they've done has been near as destructive to this country as what Ryan Reynolds does.  That pack of constructivist motherfuckers he leads are undermining the fabric of representative democracy.  While it's true that a power is meaningless if never used,…

I agree.  We should also eat dogs and cats.

I agree.  We should also eat dogs and cats.

I agree.  Cuts and changes are important and inevitable in process adaptation.  I just wish the cut material was replaced with dynamic cinema instead of long, boring screenwriterly speeches.