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I loved this about Italy as well—you can drink basically anywhere, including the trains. It was weird to get used to stuff like taking an unfinished bottle of wine home from a restaurant or stopping at a store to get a beer to take with me down the street, then coming back home to America where you basically have to…

It's pretty violent, but not to like a sadistic extent. You'd have to make a parental judgment call. I do think it makes a pretty good Baby's First R-Rated Movie, since it's pretty fun and humorous and not just oppressively adult. I think I saw it when I was maybe eleven or twelve, and I loved it.

I have to check out that This American Life segment. I know this one guy in particular who is virulently anti-Clinton (he was for Johnson, then he started supporting Trump after the RNC, now I think he's back on Johnson again), who is maddeningly selective about what information he will accept. He'll believe any…

I watched it about a year ago and bristled a little at the "shot a kid" subplot, just because the idea that it would fuck up his career seems extremely naive in light of what we know today. The movie it as this really unique and extraordinary personal failing that he has to atone for, but the frequency with which…

He had a famously negative reaction to Blue Velvet, one of the best movies ever made, because he found it irredeemably cruel and exploitative.

I have said before that Alan Rickman as Hans may be the most overachieving performance in the history of cinema. Not the best, just the one that goes the furthest beyond what the role actually requires. There's really nothing in the script to make him anything more than a generic bad guy, but Rickman finds so much…

I read about them in Time.

Is that the dude who was freaking out at me the other about Obama smoking weed? He seemed cool.

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Hell of a game last night! Rooting for the Cubs to break their streak of failure brought back fond memories of my Atlanta Braves winning back in the 90s. Then I started thinking about how the Braves are moving their stadium to fucking Cobb County to cater to a bunch of rich pussies too chickenshit to come down into…

I just have to say, the English (American?) word "panini" has bugged me ever since I went to Italy and realized that "panini" is the plural of "panino," which just means "sandwich."

Yes it is!

There's a theater right up the street from where I live now, but it seems to only get shitty mainstream movies. The movie situation in this area is pathetic. Dr. Strange is probably the only decent thing I'll be able to catch in the theater for a while, so I might as well check it out.

"Now that recreational marijuana edibles are legal in select states, authorities are urging parents to sniff out any pot-infused treats."

That's a very astute comparison. Carter 3 was a great pop record after a string of great rap records. After that, he didn't seem to know where to go next.

Wow, that's not the erudite and politically engaged Lil Wayne I know.

Are you unlikely to be paid back?

Oh this reminds me, an elderly family member randomly used the word "wetbacks" the other day, causing me to almost shit myself. And the fucked up thing is, the way he said it, it didn't sound like he realized it was a hateful term. He's conservative, but not racist, never even been known to make any kind of racial…

In my mind, this was one of the last really essential hardcore albums (due in part to the deluge of shitty metalcore that it unfortunately inspired, through no fault of its own). I do really like some newer stuff like G.L.O.S.S. and Perfect Pussy, but I don't think that stuff is ever going to seem as indispensable as…