I’m with you, I always enjoy it. Maybe it’s the nexus of peak silliness and extreme comic talent.

I just finished 11/22/63, and really enjoyed it. It kind of pointed in the direction of this review, in that late-stage King is working with alternate/braided narrative strands.

Not Mike in It—but he got sidelined from the main action in the final showdown, which I was annoyed by (but not as annoyed as I was by the one Jewish character killing himself out of cowardice ... or the adolescent gang-bang ... OK, there are some issues with that book).

I had a mixed response too—the book seemed in some way like a regression from her first book, which had nuance and no overt villains (whereas this one had Marianne’s awful mother and brother).  

Mermaid “statute”???  Those are actual taxidermied mermaids, obviously.

I have been watching the 1994 miniseries of Stephen King’s The Stand, which I had to buy on DVD. So far, it’s actually really good and faithful to the book, except for a bad casting choice with Molly Ringwald as Fran. Anyway, the stuff about khakis here—oh, man. The heavy fabrics we swaddled ourselves in in the ‘90s!…

The McEnroe thing is funny—sort of a stunt, on its face, but sounds like it works.

I’m sure he does!  What does that have to do with it?

Right, and how often do you think latter-day Jerry Seinfeld uses multi-stall public bathrooms? My sense is that he cares more about perfectly crafted and timed jokes than relevance or timeliness, but that doesn’t make stale material worth our time in 2020. There’s so much good standup out there now—even if your taste…

I haven’t seen anyone use “instanter” since God knows when.  Reading Private Eye in the early ‘90s, maybe? 

What renders a death threat more than “toothless”? U.S. Mail? Telephone? Carrier pigeon? And why should the onus be on the recipient to decide which threats have teeth?

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards ... oh fuck.”

I’m not sure there’s an income level at which death threats become nbd.

I thought I would pop up two years later to point out that (at least in the early ‘90s when I lived there) “sweetcorn” was not only standard but often non-optional as a pizza topping.  So gross.

There’s also something about the comedic chemistry he had with Judge Reinhold that really worked.

This is how I feel about the Marvel movies. I know they spend endless time and money on the action sequences but as far as action scenes, all I ever really want to see is people doing parcour. It looks cool and mostly it’s down to stunt people being amazing, whereas, with a few rare exceptions, car chases are so…

Definitely planning on watching “Sandwich Day” tonight ... RIP to a definitive actor.  

I hope that’s not a spoiler for Civil War ... 

This review makes me extra sad since I just saw the Winter Soldier for the first time and it moves me to think of Bucky being able to date--alas that they should be such underwhelming dates.

What they got was major publicity for the brand via news articles saying they were giving free dresses to teachers—and the articles said nothing about it being a raffle of a very limited number of dresses.