i know a dude who ate 8 solid sized pieces of prime rib at a chinese buffet (think like half of the rib. he was the big football guy.) they didn’t kick him out (it was a very small town, not many places to eat and they probably have broken even on him in the long run) but they did ask him to stop eating the prime rib…

Baz Luhrmann is a good comparison actually- it feels like its taking place on a sound stage.

it could have worked. its a peter pan origin story, so they could play with the story a bit and could have done something interesting, but they basically fail on every level.

and also rooney mara is tiger lily, which kind of…

the thing is (as i mentioned elsewhere) that Moby Dick was a total contemporary failure- people at the time hated it and it bombed.

so its not like this was some beloved novel that was highly regarded in an earlier age of more literate and sophisticated people. those people generally thought that it sucked.

i wrote a long essay in highschool about how grapes was outright communist propaganda (which was apparently an argument a senator made at the time and where i got the idea.) I didn’t much like the book on its narrative merits, so i decided to be cheeky and at least make my essay fun to write.

the irony is i got a B in…

contemporary audiences hated it. they were correct- its poorly paced, badly written, the characters mostly suck and the subject matter was unpleasant even for the time.

oh, to be clear i was being *very* sarcastic.

i can almost recommend it as a ‘wow, this is bad enough to be worth experiencing’ but its too long and boring in a lot of places. basically watch the sequence on youtube

i just cant really get at all excited for another reboot of the Peter Pan world. not after the tour de force that was 2015's ‘Pan.’

you just can’t top perfection

they play it in the grocery store when i shop, which is thursday morning at like 9:30 am, so apparently old people and affluent mothers with kids who exclusively wear yoga pants really love that song?

its kind of funny- it was almost disappointing with how normal it was. You hear about this crazy meal in scotland made out of all these gnarly parts and it can’t even be sold in the US because of how crazy the preparation is (or at least, that was the rumor.) and then you get there, order it, take a hearty bite…

If the restoration of the american chestnut works as hoped, our children and grandchildren may well get to experience that, without having to go salvaging (I have a friend who rips down homes in a rural area as part of his job, so I can ask him to grab and set stuff aside for me. Most people dont have that option) 

it turns out that maybe not everyone is Kevin Feige?

nope

yeah, what i really like is when the kitchen and the main living area are open to each other (because i do the cooking.) its not fun to be making food and hear everyone cheer for the touchdown you can’t see because you’re in a separate room.

i also use tech and conversation to create some of those barriers. i can…

i’m planning on planting at least two when i finish my big landscape fresh next year (i’m in boston, so i have a small but sunny lot and my soil is appropriately crummy to be appealing to them.)

i completely agree with you on the impact of them even purely as landscaping- they would be handsome looking shrubs even if…

also, its only worth it if they are made out of solid wood, and barely any of them are (because solid wood cabinets are extremely expensive.) many of them are veneer on plywood (rather then even the somewhat fancier painted plywoods) which is both unpaintable and unscrapeable.

the other thing to consider is that if you…

i used their technique to re-size a bunch of solid woods doors that i salvaged from a 100+ year old tear down to replace the cheap, crappy hollow core doors that were original to my ‘65 ranch house. cut strips out of the center pieces and then pegged and glued the wider door back together like they showed and it…

I took out the wall between my kitchen and living room. That way when i’m making dinner i can still watch tv, chat with my wife and keep an eye on my daughter without be segregated in a separate room. if i want some alone time, its not like the entire house is open. there are bedrooms, a home office, the work shop or…

grocery store blueberries are basically no-go territory (well... i feed them to my child, but she’s a toddler and doesn’t appreciate the difference much anyway.) They don’t taste good, they’re expensive and they go bad very quickly.

now, give me some u-pick berries in the middle of the new england season or wild…

Yeah, there was a howard johnson’s branded hotel in my hometown too, but it was separate from the restaurant. i think there were a handful of them left at that point but they were all independent by then and had their own menu’s- the one i’m familiar with had a very IHOP/denny’s vibe in what they served, which may…

The king arthur movie is actually quite a bit better than i think it got credit for and the men from uncle is a legit delight