Does it matter if the words “it runs” are followed by the word “horribly”? I say it still counts. https://lasvegas.craigslist.org/cto/6103882090.html

Hmm, interesting. So if I just start bullying all my co-workers until they submit, or ostracizing them if they won’t, I’ll soon be the boss. I’ma start tomorrow!

“Kubrick Almost Moved to Australia Before Dr. Strangelove Because He Was Worried About Nukes”

Republicans liked to call Obama dumb but when one analyzes the situations, they’re quite different. With Obama, the claim was that the things he said and wrote for public consumption weren’t ever generated by him but by (white) ghostwriters and if we could see what he really says and writes in private it would be…

Although Descartes was alive in (part of) the 1500's, he would have needed to be unusually precocious to speculate on people being complex machines by age 4, which was how old he was when that century ended.

I was thinking fan reaction woulda caused Scott to steer away from the “When the plot drags, have a dead crewmember suddenly return and he’s a superhumanly strong monster for some reason” Damon Lindelof school of writing, but to each his own.

“Alien: Covenant”? When I heard the title, I was like, what, is somebody going to make an agreement with someone? But then it turns out it’s the name of a ship. So why is the ship called that? Can you just take any five dollar word and put it after a colon and, presto, a title? “Alien: Capitulation.” “Alien:…

Chrysler’s long-time refusal to make this vehicle, and the 4-door Wrangler before it, is corporate malpractice. (A purer and more egregious act of stupidity, perhaps, is their refusal to offer the Viper with an automatic, but this was worse cuz the Viper’s just a niche product.) Somewhere a scene like this took…

“And then, young Epsilons, upsell the customer to a smooth and creamy McFlurry with Oreos, now for a limited time!”

“Helmut, another volunteer!”

My dad owned a 1972 one of these for a while. While in good condition, the main problem was it didn’t feel like a sports car. It didn’t rev quickly. The clutch travel was long and the shifting was long and vague. The car would lose momentum and start to slow down on the 2-to-3 shift unless you were really gunning…

I just wish he had as much respect for the audience as for the craft service guy.

Not a surprise. Rich, famous people do not criticize other rich, famous people. It’s just not done. They’re all geniuses, every one is a genius, in addition to being wonderful human beings. Among normal people, it’s not hard to find people willing to say, e.g., that David Fincher or Tarantino are overrated frauds,…

If studios don’t judge a writer on the finished product, what do they judge him on? The original script before everyone else screwed it up? But if they know the original is script is so good, why do they allow everyone else to screw it up?

Awkward and goofy? Really?

Frequently during the election I heard Trump supporters say, “He doesn’t really mean X,” where X is something Trump said he meant, or they’d have some special interpretation of what X *really* means when Trump says it that was quite different from the conventional understanding of X. I always asked, how did these…

“he thinks it wouldn’t benefit his workers”

“They already have a sphere of influence that stretches from Pakistan to Turkey”

Will you show us how to chew the gum?

“If they cannot be bothered to defend themselves, is it really up to us to pay for it?”