Pre-internet our idiocies didn’t immediately get broadcast around the world. That doesn’t mean we weren’t doing idiotic things.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

If there’s a non-chocolate category I’d vote for Payday. If its chocolate I go for quantity over quality - a Trade Joe’s Pound Plus chocolate slab.

I’m reminded of criticism of Lee’s series “She’s Gotta Have It” from a couple years ago. One complaint was that Lee didn’t seem to have a handle on the how he wanted the audience to feel about his lead. Was she ‘liberated’ or just a narcissist sociopath? The ambivalence didn’t seem purposefully built-in but was due to…

I recall in the run-up to the last GOP presidential convention the ONLY section Trump showed any interest in was stripping party support for Ukraine sovereignty from the platform. Trump’s liaison to the GOP on this matter was notorious Russian asset Carter Page.

When I read that line “The lack of the iconic theme song, however...” the Perry Mason theme song, which I had entirely forgotten for perhaps 25 years, started playing in my head. Mixed in there was a few lines of an old punk rock iteration of the song too.

I Googled ‘1988 movies’ to see if there were any that aged well over the intervening 22 years. I was surprised to see ‘My friend Totoro’, a film that could have come out 6 months ago, not 22 years ago. I loved ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ at the time but I don’t know if I’d have the patience to watch it in…

I just checked the stats. As of today two million ninety thousand confirmed U.S. COVID-19 cases (and they won’t even test you unless you have ALL the symptoms), and one hundred and sixteen thousand deaths (and they don’t count the excess number of deaths retrieved from apartments from ‘unknown causes).

It doesn’t help the debate that her critics sound just as idiotic as she does, but coming from a different direction. I’ve lost track of the dozens of gender orientation acronyms I’m supposed to have memorized in order to be sufficiently ‘woke’. Chauvinist bullying is no longer an affliction solely confined to...…

Wipe out all of mankind? I recently watched a series about the hero struggling to move from temp work to full time employment that had had higher stakes than the last six ‘wipe out all mankind’ films I’ve seen.

Gut punch, Marissa Tomei playing the mother of a 24 year old. Yes, I know she is the right age for the role but conceptually its similar to seeing Tom Cruise play a grandfather in a film.

If I were to catch Covid-19 I’d have half an urge to put on a John Deere cap and suspenders, black out a front tooth and go to the event just to ‘mingle’.

His germophobia didn’t stop him from bareback riding a porn queen. Like everything else in his life, maintenance of his ego trumps all other concerns.

Rain Man is one of those films I can summon no nostalgia for.

WWII is literally the worst man made catastrophe to ever befall mankind. By one count eighty million people around the world died from it, one way or another, in just a few short years. By the end even the ‘good guys’ were indiscriminately incinerating entire cities. That makes it a worthy topic for historical study…

I recall several years ago someone asking “How could anyone have possibly supported a monster like Hitler?” “How could anyone have possibly supported a monster like Stalin?” After experiencing 3+ years of the Trump regime nobody asks that question anymore.

I recall reading reports awhile ago that the folks at his rallies are the same people over and over. They follow him around like he’s a Grateful Dead bus tour.

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The only time I ever had difficulty voting was that one time when Mitt Romney happened to briefly be the governor of my state. He had placed a Republican hack in charge of the election and I found myself in a long slow line at the polling station. When I finally made it in to vote I found a single voting booth in the…

Will Ferrell does that old SNL “Look, I’m playing stupid. Isn’t that FUNNY?” shtick that I never much appreciated. Alot of SNL alums stick with that type of humor, unfortunately.