Topo Chico or die. 

Canceling the Joel McHale show is an odd choice. On one hand, the celebrity guest segments were really terrible and the show seemed to phone it in half the time, but on the other...it was entertaining enough and mostly likely very cheap to produce. So why not just keep doing it? *shrug*

“Avengers 4: Inevitable Rebirth”

The deals go on, and on, and on
It’s bargain and sales!

BladeRunner is still my all time favorite—it was my introduction to the genre and I stumbled backwards. Discovered a lot of wonderful films.

Bogart’s noirs were fun, but give me Dick Powell or Sterling Hayden any day.

Nothing. 

Other than dressing up to go to a red carpet to decry it entirely and then proclaiming that he and his interview don’t actually exist?

Yeah, how does someone go from being an absurdist stand-up comedian, to earning a crazy amount of money in a remarkably short amount of time, to “fuck it nothing matters the world is chaos”? It’s baffling!

Oddly enough, I was in a discussion about how the concept of “alpha wolves” is nonsense just yesterday.

There seems to be nothing in the rules that specify that an ump is human, as there is nothing that says the players must be human. But there is this:

But how do the rules define “umpire”?

Baseball is a one-on-one sport before the ball is hit. 

This will never happen, if this union is worth a damn.

Having just visited India and Finland in the last few months, this seems pretty common for fast food outside the US.

This is nonsense. Innevitably, whatever qualifications they decide makes a film eligible (box office, surely) will backfire when there is a legitimately artful film that happens to have a wide audience. It seems to happen every 10 years or so.

This is some kind of silly Oscar-light prize that will be looked down upon…

Michael Chabon?! Serious literary cred. That’s very promising.

Yeah, that was solid, if not a little frantic. I was thinking of the classic black and white films, mostly. I actually haven’t seen many modern ones. I should fix that.

Finally, we get the Shogun World that WestWorld teased and then squandered.
I am excited for this miniseries, though I have no familiarity with the original. I hope the direction is good. I have devoured a lot of samurai films and have been surprised how boring the ones not directed by Kurosawa can be, with some…

Toys was one of those films that was in heavy rotation on HBO when I was a kid and, being a child of the 80s, that meant I watched it *a lot*. But I never enjoyed it, per se. I just stared in unsettled bewilderment, trying to comprehend how so many people came together and collaborated to create that truly bizarre…