He never really came around to it, and made his [bad] Shining mini-series with a favorable director when he got the chance.

King always tries to praise the adaptations of his stuff. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him bad-mouth one, besides the Kubrick Shining movie.

Did you watch those Lindsay Ellis videos on it as well? That was wild - “laying the railroad tracks in front of the train” and doing three movies probably because there were too many metaphorical hands in the cookie jar for the first one and they wanted a third movie for more money.

“Nothing stopping Tesla team at our car plant from voting union. Could do so tmrw if they wanted,” Musk Tweeted in 2018. “But why pay union dues & give up stock options for nothing?”

I wonder how long it will take Tesla to bend, or if they will bend. McDonalds tried the same thing, but only held out for a couple of weeks against what was basically a general strike against their operations before accepting the contract. 

The stock options are a big deterrent there. You want to join a serious unionization campaign that could crater those for a much smaller conventional pay increase chance?

Business Insider leads with the fact that UAW workers will earn $35 more per hour in total compensation — inclusive of pay and benefits — than their compatriots at Tesla.

I hope there’s not some annoying controversy when they cast a tall black or non-white actor or someone like that for Dunk. Dunk’s an orphan from Flea Bottom in King’s Landing who has no memory of his parents, and it’s a major port in the setting - he could look like basically any background if you’re deviating from…

Simpsons was doing a parody of that kind of show basically later that year.

I like how they pivoted from “home renovator reality show” to TV moguls. Genuinely kind of impressive.

1st Gear: If you’re wondering why Musk is suddenly talking a lot of dumb crap in public (even more than usual) recently, it’s because that quarterly earnings report and Cyber-truck update were so dismal, and that’s dragging on the stock price. He’s desperate to change the news.

I had this Cobra RC car where the novelty was that you could press a button to cause the head to pop up like a cobra, and spray “venom” (water in the water tank) at people.

“Booty Patrol” sounds like something Bang Bros would put on the side of their sex vans.

The overt vampirism in Midnight Mass happens over 1 night, and on a remote island town - and the vampires there are still conscious people capable of behaving like human beings.

I got to go read Night Shift. I’ve only read a couple of the stories from it, and that wasn’t one of them.

Well said.

1st Gear: I thought maybe the quick change-over with Autopilot might sway juries (sometimes it switched back to human control with only seconds of warning, not enough time to really compensate), but otherwise Tesla was on firm ground there. They warn people that you need to be aware and alert while using it, and while…

“Early 2000s” definitely feels like the absolute latest you could do that.

Did they make it a period piece set back in the 1970s? Because it kind of doesn’t work as well in modern times - harder to believe that a town could get taken over by vampires and effectively disappear without it attracting a ton of attention from outside. 

I feel like there’s been a thousand Jalopnik pieces just recently that amounted to “EV sales are in trouble”. Must be driving traffic.