“Murphy...it’s you.”

Guatemala, ‘54, Jacobo Arbenz.
Assassinated by the USA because the United Fruit Co. was going to lose some profit.

As much as I’ve enjoyed most of the RE movies, I gotta say I’m bored with zombies, for now...

so, not misanthropic, then?

Yes, there is a difference. And it’s a fine line, usually, and it takes a smart and aware person to skate it.
Behind the scenes, he’s been a monster for years, but he wasn’t previously stupid in his comedy. Seems he’s decided to say “fuck it,” and throw in with the stupid side instead of growing and learning.
Very sad…

pretty sure Kylie’s only a “paper billionaire,” which means as soon as the faith goes out of her brand, investors pull out, and her biz deflates like a soufflé in an earthquake...

I’d seen her in Brideshead Revisited, where she’s beautiful and distant, but First Avenger cemented my appreciation.

It dawned on me before, and was reinforced while watching Wonder Woman (2017), that part of the reason Cap and WW work so well in their movies is that, though not cardboard caricatures, they are very pure in their motivations and core values.
Sure, angsty and troubled characters can play very well, and be very…

If you believe that story, you’ll believe anything!

“Sorry, Megyn, but you’ve probably got NBC Lib’rul Media cooties, and well, you know our stance on vaccines...”

applause all around.

Okay, I never saw the series, but the canine in Family Dog’s Amazing Stories episode isn’t “dimwitted,” he just wants to be left alone to do dog things. It’s the family that are dim or nasty...
But that one Amazing Stories episode is perfect, in its way. Trying to take it to series was trying to get blood from a…

“No white below the waterline after Labour Day.”

Diamonds are for suckers.

thanks for the Smith tip.
I’ll look into that one.

I bought a copy - library binding! - for my eldest a few years ago, and encouraged him to read it, telling him it was important to me...but I didn’t re-read myself.
I think I’ll leave it alone, recorded in whatever way, in my memory. :)

yup. “Have Spacesuit...” was probably the first science fiction novel I read, way-back in middle school!

I’m thinking she could will a fetus into existence... :)

Because what Rand’s turgid verbal and emotional D/S needs is someone with a flair for kinetic, processed visuals and no skill with characters...
I mean, seriously: the visual aspects of The Fountainhead are...

I had forgotten that about Victoria Jackson (Whom I’d previously loved on SNL) :(