I also saw the original recently. I was impressed enough to seek out the book and it’s a doozy. The ending of the book is much more intense and as soon as you read it you realize what a clumsy tacked-on ending the original film had to deal with. You also realize that Del Toro is going to fix that.

I’m not trying to do a “hot take” here, but Marvel movies are pretty bad at storytelling. I went on a bit of a binge recently alternating between Marvel and Star Wars fare and the juxtaposition was alarming. The Star Wars films had structure and grace while the Marvel world was all spectacle and quirky characters. The…

McCartney plays lead guitar on “Back in the U.S.S.R.”, “Taxman”, “Good Morning, Good Morning” and the first (and best) lead part on “The End”.

The Yoko-as-devil trope always seemed rooted in sexism and racism to me. But I’m having second thoughts after watching eight hours of her feigned indifference as she flipped through magazines while the Beatles were kicking out the jams. It’s weird. It’s rude. It’s kind of obnoxious.

Pat Morita a.k.a. “The Hip Nip”!?

My thoughts exactly. I did not see a smidgen of Jordan Peterson in Mencken but I thought immediately of Hawley.

Agreed. And while I disagree with much of what Jordan Peterson has to say, I think he’s interesting, smart and provocative. I doubt many of the commenters disparaging him formed an opinion actually listening to him. They are just parroting a narrow political orthodoxy.

I took it to mean “emotional affair” implies a lack of actually physical stuff. This is just typical “women’s” magazine stuff that Cosmopolitan pioneered years before click-bait existed.

An “emotional affair”? No, sorry. This is not a thing.

When you read the cameras used crystals to sync the audio, it starts to sound more like magic than Arthur C. Clarke’s “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”...

There’s some more detailed (i.e. nerdier) stuff about the audio process here.

For me, “How To with John Wilson” felt like one of those things I really loved while thinking “there is no way anybody else is watching this.”

Maybe a decade ago Luhrmann would have been the guy for this but that Netflix hip-hop series was unwatchable. (I think that’s what the writer means when he says “underrated”.)

Being “lazy” is not usually something people cop to. It is a description typically used by others who think you should be doing things in a manner that they think is correct.

Simple, unobtrusive and they disperse light well. I have no problem with these.

I don’t get it. But, for what it’s worth, the person that wrote this has even less insight than I do.

My computer buying methodology is buy last year’s top-of-the-line machine. The premium prices attached to the latest chipset are rarely worth the extra cost. That said, if money isn’t an issue, go all the way!

The items in Larry’s mini-bar pitch closely mirrored my shopping cart at the local (deep) discount grocery store. (The store is stocked with weird products that didn’t sell at big retailers. Snack crackers made of beans and anything pumpkin-spice or Sriracha flavored are frequent fliers.)

I wish I could get on board, but the appeal of this kind of stuff on Adult Swim has been going over my head for years. I’ve tried, lord knows.

Bourbon. Just bourbon please.