I was 17 that year, and it was fun to see those deleted scenes and the new modifications. They weren’t necessarily good, but back then you couldn’t just go to the Youtube and watch stuff like that any time you want. It was a fun little treat. But nobody ever dreamed they’d be permanent.

My ten-year-old Mazda already has this. When I’m stopped at a light and it turns green but I’m too busy staring at my cell phone to notice, it alerts me with a honking sound coming from somewhere behind.

Huh. I actually thought that the ocean was ten thousand *miles* deep, so it turns out it’s not so much deeper than *I* thought it was. In fact I was kinda disappointed to learn it’s really pretty shallow and kinda paltry.

What’s sad about this is that there’s apparently some level of success, far beyond any number of hundreds of millions of dollars, when a person like Cameron begins thinking success is “building a media empire,” or “creating a cinematic franchise,” or some such stuff, rather than making good films. Cameron could use…

“how did Leia end up above Tatooine, where Obi-wan was in hiding (and she didn’t know he was there)”

These posters *do* make my favorite properties look a-MAZE-ing! I wish they did one for Total Recall, that was an awesome property!

If those other guys need to create a masterpiece before they’d allowed to say it’s bad, doesn’t that also mean you need to create a masterpiece before you’re allowed to say it’s good?

“I originally called it Void Station Zebra on a whim”

What you’ll notice about these “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” conservatives, however, is that the fiscal part also comes first. That is, it is always the women, the poor, the gays, etc., who must sacrifice their interests—interests that the “FCSL” person ostensibly supports—so that the rich white guys can…

Like the author, I too “inherited” my conservative politics upon turning 18, and turned to liberalism in my mid- to late-twenties. In my case it was specifically because of things I learned in college, albeit not in the sense of being indoctrinated, because what did it was nothing explicitly political, and none of my…

I’ve never understood why the super-rich always spend a hundred mil or more on these megayachts that basically just look like every other megayacht, when used aircraft carriers are available for far less, and are actually bigger than the megayachts. Just a few years ago the HMS Ark Royal (launched 1981, almost 700…

Yes, but the Koran says you need annual WOF and smog inspections, so... sorry, pal.

Luke Starkiller.

So, uh, how come R2 never told Luke that Vader was his ah fuck it, it’s just too stupid.

Re-watched this last night and was struck by the number of lines that seem to somehow extradiegetically refer to the real-world situation about the movie. For example, the 1st line of dialogue is “This will begin to make things right.” After the prequels, I couldn’t help but thinking. Also: “You’re afraid you’ll never…

That’s so weird, because it’s just like that time I stopped listening to Dark Side of the Moon, which was exactly the moment when everybody else needed to stop listening to it too! Dark Side of the Moon was cool up until that point, but afterward, only lamos liked it, whom I justifiably mocked. In fact, absolutely…

Maybe you go the other way. Instead of trying to purge the racist elements from NASCAR, you embrace them. You make NASCAR as big an emblem of neo-Confederate sentiment as the Stars and Bars. Talk constantly of the oppression NASCAR faces and how we need your support to remain viable in the face of Jew-controlled…

“I wish the next president was a conservative only because we had Obama for eight years and we need balance”

Yeah, but what if you made half a million dollars a day?