Same. I read each book after the I saw the movie, and it functioned like an extended cut. More detail, more character work for, say, Neville. You could sort of see why plot elements were condensed or removed. The movies themselves were always perfectly easy to follow.

Yeah I was intentionally born at home with the assistance of a midwife, and my mom didn’t initially get a birth certificate for me because she didn’t want me “hooked into the system.” One could get away with that in the 70s, but it caused me endless hassle 16 years later when I was trying to get my driver’s license. I…

Feels so much like we missed the episode where they explain what a Galanthi is and what Lavinia wants and how Massen killed Mary and who the character of Effie was supposed to be that I momentarily thought I was watching it on Fox and they had screwed with the running order.

I knew a guy who got bit by a black widow at a park in Boston of all places. He sat down on an old bench and later found a painful swelling in the back of his knee. At first he thought maybe it a bee sting or a tick, but then his entire knee turned black. He wound up in hospital with breathing problems, and they put…

The blonde hair, the cardigan and the album recorded during lockdown bring to mind “Tyler Quick”, no? But in typical Billie Eilish fashion, I think it’s meant to be both ironic and sincere.

I read thing whole interview in her Gretchen voice, and it was great. It’s a pity she’s sort of blew her chance at a superhero role as Stormfront in the Boys (though she was perfect for the role) but after all the MCU doesn’t always hold an actor’s previous superhero experience against them. I could see her as the…

Yeah, I couldn’t tell the difference between any of the Bridgerton bros. Nothing in their personalities or characters or acting distinguished them in any way. And I certainly wasn’t watching for the waifish, wan Daphne, who looked exactly like my ex’s persnickety, sickly, Shirley Feeney roommate. Basically, as a fully …

Well I watched it. Why not? I’m paying for the app and I had nothing else to do. It was fun. I’d give it a B- or maybe even a straight B. Full of exposition and character introductions, almost dizzyingly so, but what pilot isn’t? I found the premise intriguing, and both of the leads were engaging, and I like the idea…

Yeah no sorry, I’m in the camp that, while I don’t necessarily hate any of the plot developments of Season 8, I found the pacing and characterization nonsensical. It all really needed some breathing room to ratchet up the tension and explore the new character dynamics and make sense of the some decisions. If we’d had…

Rises was worth it for the Bane from the Harley Quinn cartoon.

Nolan justified this by saying, “Why set up another movie, if you have a good story, put it in the movie you are making” or something to that effect, but he wound up with a (very good) movie and a half, instead of two potentially great movies. Then did the same thing with Dark Knight Rises, which should have been…

Yeah nowadays Batman would be taking on human trafficking and the shady business criminal fascists that took over the GOP. Can’t exactly Pow! Zap! Bang! High Fructose Corn Syrup or for-profit prisons or the military industrial complex.

But every time he shows up we’re all like...

Fun true story, the summer of 91, I went to Mexico with my hippie aunt and her eccentric electrical engineer husband, specifically to view the total solar eclipse with a telescope I had built myself (I basically could have been on the show). While letting random tourists look through the telescope on the beach, I was…

Also her mid-2000's veer into hard right conservatism, writing for Breitbart, now anti-vaxx, pro-Trump, still believes the election was stolen... But her two or three spots on Update singing while standing on her head were kinda funny.

Or just Jan/Nora.

There was funny stuff in there, but the audience wasn’t reacting. At . All. Didn’t help that the direction kept missing cues and the pace was just slack. Like a dress rehearsal. One of the few times, “Do it again, funnier and faster” would have worked. Maybe the sets are too big, and it took too long for Maya and…

No thanks. Once was about two times too many for me. Just a slog to get to the “good stuff” and then the “good stuff” being ridiculous, over-choreographed, impossible nonsense. I love - LOVE - the LOTR movies. But this is overblown and strangely boring. A shame. 

Yeah really, on the weekends I make oatmeal and add a teaspoon of Chia Seeds for protein, a little bit of brown sugar, cinnamon and dried cherries. I wish I was a rich, famous actor, but I’m just an underpaid midwestern art director with doctor’s orders to control my cholesterol.

So great, everyone was perfect in the role, even Mos Def’s uniquely relaxed Ford and Sam Rockwell’s Zaphod by way of Dubya. It’s truly a shame they ruined the story, cut out some of the very best one liners in existence, and scuttled any chances to see them all grab a bite at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.…