I was going to make a joke about Les Mis but decided this is actually too serious. I could not delete my comment, so you get this instead.

Why do you need two asterisks to sanitize dick?

So, yes, it works, but only because he appears to have done something pretty effective to his skin as well. Nothing says “old as fuck” more than a dye job/hair piece next to obviously old skin. If you can’t do the whole package, just age already. It’s OK. You earned it.

Yeah. She’s pretty. She can’t help that. For her, pretty is normal, like farts. That was strange.

Oh dear lord that’s solid gold.

Definitely. I think it’s also critical that you know early on that it won’t be over with the kids. Whatever they do, it’s not going to be enough.

During the 1918 pandemic, one officer who allowed troop transports (i.e. death trains) to continue despite the flu actually committed suicide when he realized how many young men had died because if his decision.

OK rant, but there were many instances in 1918 of people dying the same day or at least very quickly after they contracted the virus. For example, groups of (apparently) healthy young men boarding a troop train, and most of them being dead by the time they reached their destination, or healthy young nurses going to…

King has his problems, but decisions about story structure are not among them. He is an enormously skilled story teller. If King tells a story chronologically, there is a probably a good reason for it, and you screw with it at your own peril.

You can tell this story effectively in 9-10 hours. If you want more, maybe do a multimedia thing that provides additional depth or backstory, sort of like the relationship between the abridged and unabridged versions of the book. Maybe an anime episode with the Kid and sample social media posts or podcasts covering…

Sort of like tying a red ribbon on your black suitcase.

I’d agree with that, with the requisite Pixar waterworks added. I feel like we grade Pixar movies on a different scale because we expect them to re-invent the genre every damn time (and sometimes they do).

She worked as an actual model. She did a large billboard for R.J. Reynolds advertising Camels. She did a shoot for GQ, and a couple of other things. Her work is kind of meh. Her face always transmits the message “I am being paid to do this” which is not what one looks for in a model.

Melania did not spend much time actually doing stuff with her position as First Lady. That is reason #1 she did not grace the cover of many fashion magazines. Reason #2 is that she would not have sold a lot of magazines. Reason #3 is she clearly had a crappy publicist.

She also had a significant popular cultural presence—far greater than any other SCOTUS justice—so it’s fair to include her on the list.

Normally I watch the BBC Dr. Who marathon with my daughter starting on Christmas Eve pretty much all the way through New Years. However, the BBC decided to ‘ef up yet another thing about 2020 and play random movies in the evenings. So in the evenings we have been bingeing Game of Thrones, which I have read by not…

The Sorting Hat does not sort students for life. It sorts them into school houses. For whatever reason the school is subdivided into houses, and that’s what the hat does. It does about a good a job as any standardized test administered to 11 year olds.

I liked Onward. A lot. Middling Pixar is still pretty great.

Wow. I wasn’t prepared for it to be over the actual credits. Seems like they don’t do that now.

That show starred Jerry Mathers, Tony Dow, Barbara Billingsley, and Ken Osmond. Sure, Ward was dead, but he was never the focus of the original show.