yeah- thats actually particularly brilliant. googly eyes at chani, Paul kills Sting (or whomever it is this time) is offered his membership into the freman, chooses his name and then you end on stilgars quote about the Muad’Dib. Thats a very cinematic moment

they also show them ‘spinning up’ beloved relatives on special occasions using whatever sleeve they can rent on the cheap (the detective basically borrows one from the police evidence locker to get her grandmother back.) the conversation she has with her at the end of the party where she asks her to stop bringing her…

‘many suspected of being a Nazi sympathizer’

he had a secret family in nazi germany. i think you can remove the ‘many suspected of being’ part and be safe 

she might have better luck introducing it if she hadn’t thrown the dish at an intern immediately after

the logical place (to my mind) is after the fight to be accepted into the freman. big climactic fight, accepted into the freman, googly eyes at chani, go to credits.

i think that while its relatively early in the book, the plot is very front loaded. they introduce all the universe building, do all of the ‘this is what…

its a guilty pleasure style dip, but in a good way. i make it once or twice a year- always for the super bowl (even though we’re not doing anything for it, its still a little bit fun to have little fun food traditions for things) and also for the occasional party where you’re asked to bring an app.

generic store brand ‘mexican cheese mix’ because i am cheap and lazy

bottom up: refried beans mixed with a jar of taco sauce to make them creamier, sour cream/mayo/taco seasoning mix, mashed avacado, cheese, chopped scallions and chopped tomato. the 7th is sliced black olive, but i don’t like them much so i leave them off unless i’m hosting a party and then i do half and half.

its…

yeah, i’m with you- dip is my favorite part of the superbowl meal. in fact, you reminded me i need to get all the stuff for my 7 layer dip

old bay is fine, but i must admit i use cajun seasoning on my softshell crabs. i just feel like it compliments the flavor of crab more than old bay.

He has been very contrite and atoned for his actions, which is laudable and i generally believe in rehabilitation and not punishment.

but given the brutality and cruelty of what he did, i also have a tough time believing that anyone who doesn’t harbor very strong sociopathic tendencies would do what he did. and…

The extended trailer explains it, if you want to save yourself the movie ticket.

‘gansett is a good, solid, working-on-stuff beer. like, its 85 degrees out and you just mowed the lawn or built a deck or helped someone move into an apartment without AC and you’re sweaty and you want a cold, refreshing beer. you’re not going to crack into a 12% imperial stout with chocolate notes at that point.

i don’t know, i thought her arc on arrow was pretty solid and she had one of the more compelling stories in the DCAU

apparently emma stone was also busy.

and captain hook is in this movie- he and peter are friends who fight the villian (played by hugh jackman) who is playing blackbeard (despite not really having a beard.) very cliche

yeah, i mean.... i can listen to a podcast while still saying ‘can i please get a large black coffee’ and then ‘thank you’ when the coffee is presented to me. i don’t know how extreme the airpods are for blocking noise, but my old motorola over the ears ones let me hear what people are saying without a problem.

and…

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…