Has Santa Barbara’s water improved any from the 1980s when it tasted like it came from the same source as the tar washing up on Isla Vista’s beaches?

Time to brush off the old ‘I didn’t expect the face-eating leopard to eat *my* face’ cartoon:

“Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.”

“P.T. Barnum is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.”

Just to clarify - Hitler or Trump?

‘Mango Unchained’? Glorious - you need a constellation of stars.

Definitely one of Segal’s straight-to-bargain-bin titles.

I am mystified why Putin thinks an obese delusional has-been with improbable hair and a long history of alleged sexual assaults would ever be acceptable to America.

That wall of mismatched marble blocks looks like someome has varnished a smoker’s lung.

Is there room for Trump’s claim that the Queen kept him waiting for their meeting?

Don and Eric would like that - all those animals to kill.

I just know that Tom Brady’s plan for Middle East peace would be more credible than Kushner’s.

Perhaps there’s a little unclaimed Trumplet out there growing up not knowing that they might be the thing that brings 45 down.

They have so much to work with.

Likewise the impossible mirror shot in Contact:

I love Forbidden Planet. It, and the gorgeous This Island Earth really opened my eyes to the sort of effects that were being done before Kubrick and Lucas/

I thought Genesis was done in-house by ILM?

I’d include Rouben Mamoulian and DP Karl Struss’s Dr Jekell and Mr Hyde from 1931 which has the most astonishing transformation scene - largely achieved in camera - original, Rick Baker’s admiration for, and how it was done linked below:

The estate of PG Wodehouse would have a pretty good claim against him as well.

We need to start building clever buildings like the wind catchers of Iran. They’re tall towers attached to buildings with an opening at the top on the down-wind side of the tower. Warm air rises up the tower and is drawn out by the wind allowing cooler air to come in at the bottom.