I read Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead—because how could I not with a title like that—knowing nothing about the author other than that she had won the Nobel. It was very, very funny, which I was not expecting. I recommend it.

I saw him at a large, packed (masked and vaxxed) venue on Saturday. He played two nights, and they were both sold out.

I went to see him live last Saturday. It was a funny set, and he worked the crowd pretty well. (Sorry if this is a repeat comment, but the comment software sucks.)

“This is so everybody looks over here... don’t look at inflation.”

There is a considerable difference in that Don’t Look Up is (for the present) fiction. One would imagine there is a real reporter who actually broke the sex tape story as news, and there is no reason to change or fictionalize that person. Surely they had a byline, so it should be fine to use their actual name.

Can I hire him to do that for my birthday?

I watching this last night. Strong recommend. The stories are all unexpected and macabre, and the craftsmanship in the animation is jaw dropping. Also, it’s short. Nothing overstays its welcome.

Whoops. Bakula.

Dean Stockwell and Scott Bacula cannot be replaced.

Wait Until Dark is the scariest movie I have ever seen. I was rocking back and forth sobbing by the end of that movie. I don’t want to see another movie that scary.

Oh no! I hope she’s living her best life somewhere. Cute as hell!

Even THAT would not be a problem with a faithful adaptation. There would be plenty to explore after the book ends, especially considering that Jeevan has zero interaction with any of the other characters in the book after the first day of the flu, and ends up living 1,000 miles away. You could find a way of bringing…

It’s sort of weird, because the book seemed pretty adaptable as is. It’s not like it required all that much streamlining, and it’s quite cinematic.

I just finished the book this morning, and I absolutely loved it. Should I wait before watching the show? Seems like they changed a bunch, and my memory of the book’s details might be too fresh such that I could be over-fixated on the differences.

Yeah, except they kill everyone on Earth.

I enjoyed it, but I felt it could have been just a little more tightly edited.

I watched this last night (with my family, on Christmas). It is most certainly the bleakest of comedies, but it is still frequently pretty darn funny and sometimes funny as hell. I recommend it, but you might have nightmares after watching it. I did.

Huh. Maybe it’s better in a theater? You are more immersed and less easily distracted. This is not sarcasm. I genuinely react in a different way to movies in a theater than I do at home, and this is probably true of many people.

But I felt that if it was Hugo Weaving, IDK, it would have been somehow distracting? Without Weaving I could almost suspend disbelief and think that the events of The Matrix really were a psychotic break (which makes more sense than them being real in a whole lot of ways) even though I knew that of course they weren’t…

Yes.