Fiiiiiive goooooolden riiiiiiiiiings!!

You’re right. They left well enough alone. They never followed up on those long-discussed prequel and sequel trilogies and the original (that is, only) movies remain pure, untarnished gems in the cultural memory of Generation X. Sometimes they project them onto the sides of the twin towers of the World Trade Center…

I don’t know the man, but does this at least vaguely seem to fit?

Right? Space helmets sometimes alter voices! Not consistently but sometimes. Boushh’s voice sounds NOTABLY DIFFERENT from Carrie Fisher’s, at least in the 80s.  

“No disintegrations.”

Is anyone else bothered as me by the substitution of Temuera Morrison for Jason Wingreen’s original voice work in the Empire special edition? In general the additions to Empire are fine, good even, that weird scene with the ROTJ outtake notwithstanding. And I like Temuera Morrison as an actor. But his voice on its own…

To be clear, this is not a criticism. Hell, his astute analysis of the 2012 presidential election was enough to endear him to me forever:

I’m eight.  

I’m not certain what this man is famous for at this point. He’s still regularly releasing albums, I was surprised to learn, but it’s definitely not that. He just sort of seems to float in and out of various facets of the culture, like a cloud with a very specific aroma. Alternately, he’s always just kind of there,…

A friend of mine interviewed him once and he was apparently the nicest guy ever.  Good people are good. 

Did anyone else feel the way some of the final battle was shot, where Bond is running through the lair shooting people, might have been a little 90s Goldeneye video game easter egg?

Plate.  Shrimp.  Plate of shrimp.  No explanation.  

You are not.  But that’s your choice. 

No, I’m a highly depressed Warren supporter. But hey, I’m still right on the internet.

You’re a cutie pie. The masses become the higher powers and, because they never wanted to do anything but destroy, they do the exact same thing as the old deadbeats. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. All because everybody had a lot of bile and signed on to prevailing cults of personality, but never cared about a…

I encourage you to educate yourself on the subject before you advocate condemning people to death. The work of Leigh Goodmark is a good place to start. Google and dig.

Another problem in America is our tendency to see our problems outside a global context. You’re talking about phenomena that occur on a global scale. The reasons they may be better or worse in different countries depend on social and economic conditions and specific, deliberate policy decisions. The whole idea of bette…

No. Living in a country where homosexuality and being transgender are considered criminal acts punishable by capital punishment, public whipping, beatings, chemical castrations, life imprisonment, and deportation is worse than living in a country where the government doesn’t do that. I don’t know what your story is…

Too sad to star, too true to disagree.