I want to say up front that I fully believe that marijuana has no business being a banned substance for athletes. Hands down, her suspension is just dumb.

And this is the second one that’s originally by an Austrian director, no less. Unfortunately Jessica Hausner’s Little Joe is already in English.

Mank, a movie about screenwriting, that is the only Best Picture nominee this year not to receive a writing nomination.

Though Larry David did threaten to bring him back on occasion to keep the cast and crew in line. 

LOL slightly off-topic, but relevant: one year in HS our teacher assigned Julius Caesar, Lord of the Flies, A Separate Peace, The Return of The Native, and a fifth I can’t remember, but pretty certain someone was killed as well. By the end we were convinced she was a serial killer.

I wish Kate & Allie was rerun/streamed somewhere. It seems like there are lots of lousy old sitcoms that show up on my weird cable channels like MeTV and Antenna TV, so why not something reasonably good?

The only thing I ever buy from them is sofrito. I can let that go.

I don’t go out of my way to watch The Simpsons anymore, but when I do catch a recent episode I’m usually pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoy it. I do think the quality now is better than it was in the series’ middle period. 

“I used to be with it, but then they changed what ‘it’ was. Now, what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s ‘it’ seems weird and scary to me.”

He was also Maurice on Northern Exposure

I thought the 1st episode was classic Curb, I laughed my arse off - the 2nd ep was a bit flat though, can’t argue there ,,

It seems like a lot of trouble to go through for a short scene that arguably didn’t work or make sense in the context of the movie

Jackson says in interviews he can’t imagine why actors wouldn’t want to act, which is why he takes so many dodgy scripts.

The Distinguished Gentleman. Woof.

Umm, I wonder if he also cringes over some of the sexist crap he used to belch out during his stand up routines, especially those aimed at black women. But hey, no one’s complaining.. plus he’s now grown in stature.

Lynch has used that fishing metaphor more times than I can count, but I happen to agree with him.

The only people I know who want to see it are gay dudes who are gonna get drunk and laugh at it. 

I really shouldn’t give a shit about this, but daytime soaps have been a thing since the days of radio, and it’s kind of sad to see them all go.

Also rom-coms back then (late 90s/uber early 00's) still had personality and their own brand of ‘awww what the hell’ charm; How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days was the beginning of the end (at least that’s what my brain insists).

A propos of nothing, if any writers on this site decide that they want to go freelance and write their own blog away from corporate overlords, I will contribute to a Patreon to help them do so.