I worked at ILM at the time Ep 1 & 2 were being worked on. I did not work on them personally (I was doing TV commercials in those years, including the Pepsi spots for the special Phantom Menace cans. One got a Cleo for VFX.) I saw all of it personally and heard about other goings on from the people involved. The…

You can safely move on with your life knowing that regardless of whether you accept or reject his defense, it matters not one whit as to the question of whether you should ever listen to his comedy again. You should not, because he is aggressively unfunny. Like, Liza Schlesinger unfunny. Carlos Mencia unfunny. The…

yup. The Matrix is still kickin’ just fine. My daughter learned to drive in it, so the rear passenger door is banged up. 5 years of L.A. traffic and curbs and shitty driveways have lost a few useless bits of body kit, and one of the fog lights, and the CD player quit. Had to get a new compressor for the A/C, too.…

Ben and Jerry’s stopped making “Doonesberry” Raspberry/Blueberry sorbet (later renamed to “Berry Berry” or something lame).

Around 2003/2004 I went to buy a Toyota Matrix XR (No, I DIDN’T want the XRS. I don’t like manuals. This was a practical dad/homeowner car). Wentto the local dealer, to see what’s what. I took my then 7 yr old daughter with me. They took the keys to my old Legend coupe to assess it for trade in value while they showed…

That’s exactly true. And even more, Many of the performances were merges between several takes IN ONE SHOT. You’d have the actors head/face from Take 4, their body from Take 7, and the left arm from take 9, only the arm from that take was a little late, so retime that footage before you paste it in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah_Bankhead

I get it, and I, too, am enjoying the schadenfreude (though I think this doesn’t quite qualify. Death isn’t *quite* ‘misfortune’ or ‘suffering’).

I know that there’s no such thing as a truly apolitical act. I know that “Stick to sports!” or “Stick to food!” cannot be an apolitical directive. Going to a restaurant is a political act. Buying a soft drink from a giant megacorp or a small local maker is a political act.

Harris is merely the most well known of a whole stable of crime/thriller writers of the era (that stretched back at least to the late 60's and early 70's and the first well known openly trans folks (Renee Richards, Wendy Carlos, et al, and even earlier than that) that used any alternate sexuality as a exotic…

I only learned it this year as well. Something else I learned this year, which I really should have known already:

I think you meant “Vanilla ISIS”.

Northern California checking in re: crabs. It’s Dungeness season (YAY!!) and fresh live crab at $8.99/lb is a relatively affordable little luxury each winter.

Tahani was the only one to CHOOSE to continue. Janet was eternal by nature. She COULDN’T die, and her compromised will was a point the show made sure to note over and over.

Oh, but he WAS.

The fashion sense says otherwise. The Empire uniforms are only not-brown because it would clash with the cooler colors of the space ship and Death Star interiors.

That would be a cheese Chicago stuffed pizza. Bottom crust, cheese (+ toppings), top crust, sauce.

> > The Asshole Gene

I didn’t really know about the Denver ‘honey on pizza’ thing until very recently, but, doing absolutely no research at all, I choose to believe it became a thing AFTER legalization, because to the newly stoned, the call of salty/sweet is undeniable.

It would be if you’d get rid of that awful brick cheese and just use mozzarella, maybe a little provolone. It ruins what would otherwise be a very nice slice with those crispy edges. What? Something like that already exists and it’s Pequod’s in Chicago (or, possibly, the new owners of Burt’s Place in Morton Grove.…