And so: the pocket-book was born'd.

Wait, isn't it season 5 of Veep (& the first sans Armando Iannucci) ?

Thanks for clarifying, & for your honesty, too. I wasn't so much arguing with you as trying to illuminate what I see as two points on a very very broad band of behavioral possibility.

Because it's not enough to point at killing a cat (as a teenager, while intoxicated, & in a group-setting) to indicate, beyond a reasonable doubt (or even with SOME certainty), that the individual is a violent person. The correlation is extremely weak, especially in a case like this. If this person had brutally…

See: Persia's response. Exactly. This is the stretchiest of stretches. Not to mention, this was something that Avery admitted immediately, still admits, & admits to deeply regretting. This isn't something he speaks of with humor or confusion.

I agree with you; although this was indeed a 'Reply' to you, I meant it more as a response to the very many comments I've seen here & other places about how the cat-flagration (I know, I'm sorry..!) is a clear correlation with murderous-ness.

Here's the thing, & please don't mistake this for an excuse: but let's say somebody DID, as a drunk teenager at a bonfire, purposely light a cat on fire, killing it ? It's certainly enough for excoriation & disgust, but is it nearly enough to form a picture of somebody who, many years later, would go on to rape &…

The thing I admired most about ANOMALISA was that, for maybe the first time in his career, the conceptual framework actually gave Kaufman the means to write something extraordinarily & surprisingly small, & quotidian, & contained. It isn't made up of the same grand, overflowing layers & levels, & while it seemingly…

Hey, weird question: do books exist in the Star Wars Universe ? I was just thinking about this: like, has a book ever been seen, or referred-to on-screen, in a Star Wars movie ? I don't think so, but I couldn't be sure, so I had to ask. I guess literature didn't exist "back then" ? I don't know. It's weird,…

Wait, what ? That's exactly what I'm saying: NOBODY is talking normally. Either they're speaking in a stilted theatrical version of their real voice (i.e. Luke, Han, Anakin, Windu, Leia & Padme after they leave the throne, so to speak) OR they speak in ridiculous & out-of-place British or mid-Atlantic accents that…

I thought it was pretty clear, once Han was killed, that Kylo was asking his dad to help him kill him, because it was too hard for him to do on his own — like: "I need to kill you, I know I must, but I can't do it alone, please help me," albeit in an indirect, ambiguous sort of way.

I've read of more than one person who was super-duper bummed that they didn't do an inverted call-back to the "I love you" / "I know" thing-a-ma-jig when he said goodbye to Leia. I think that would've been the most groan-worthiest of callbacks in the movie, personally, but apparently a lot of people were expecting it.

"You're tearing me apart, Light'sa !"

The accents thing in Star Wars has always been a bit strange: Anakin speaks with a generic American accent, but Vader speaks with a mid-Atlantic actorly flourish. Finn is played by an English actor but speaks with an American accent, but Rey is also played by an English actor & speaks with her regular accent. Leia…

I miss Sean O'Neal

No love for Ben Mendelsohn on Bloodline ? (How about Ben Mendelsohn in [absolutely anything] ?)

Funny, the ONLY thing I didn't love about it was all the goddamn Audioslave music they felt compelled to shove in there.

I'd forgotten about that, but totally, that's exactly in-line with the emoji thing. Perfect.

100% It seems to be about both Esperanto, which was just coming into its a kind of vogue / zeitgeist at the time (international Esperanto schools; Esperanto dissertations & journals; Esperanto translations of major books) but also a sly nod to Emojis, & how, in all of his eager / honest sincerity, to think of what…

Kind of a silly question, maybe, but how did Kevin get from his house, to Virgil's house, then to the lake (with the cinder block & rope in-hand) before the girls got there ?