as a slick procedural, it holds up quite well on over the air syndication channels like Ion, assuming you’re planning to have it on in the background while working on other stuff.

but given that the public has been exposed to 500,000 versions of ‘um, CSI and forensic science doesn’t work that way, in fact a lot of…

well, we’ll have to agree to disagree. i can’t see any appeal in that. for me, reading it on my phone this morning was more than enough and it seems like the ratings seem to be leaning more generally in that direction

exactly- a big part of the appeal is the staging, live dancing, audience interaction (they let you go up during intermission and examine the set) and costuming. the story or through line of that musical is a distant runner up on why people went to that show

the decisions at the oscars were made a month if not several months ago. the decision was 100% guaranteed. if i thought the superbowl was pre-determined i’d also have no interest in it. 

because the moment to moment action of a live sporting event is something you want to experience in real time because each moment matters. it builds to a final end state. the oscars are just a series of unconnected vignettes. its not like finding out who was the best sound mixer has any bearing on who will be best…

in the era of the internet (and streaming) it seems kind of pointless. i can look up who won easily, watch a speech if it was really good on youtube and thanks to streaming, its not like its the oscars or re-runs of law and order.

don’t worry, he’s not going senile like you’d assume. he’s just making confusing deep cut references to half remembered films from his youth! much better

The great dictator was filmed before the wider world understood the holocaust. I doubt they would have gone that same direction had they known what was really going on

Thats why I specified the 'era far removed.' I see the copa as it looked at the time and think 'ugh, bad food, smells like smoke, too dark and the drinks are overpriced and also taste like smoke.'

‘Henry Hill never worked, came and go as he pleased, did not have to partake in the worst part of being a gangster (commit murder), slept around, partied day and night, did not have to parent his kids, etc, etc...his life was pretty good’

that stuff is all fine when you’re like 20-25 maybe, but then it gets boring. he…

‘He adds in that same interview, “[gangster life] is glamorous at first if you’re young and stupid, which a lot of people are [...] This is different.’

maybe because i didn’t see these scorsese gangster movies until i was a young adult in an era far removed from when they were operating, but their lives seemed kind of…

texas chainsaw massacre has already said all it has to say. let it go

based on biden’s campaign strategy, he seems to want bloomberg to win

yeah, i’m from a rural area originally and i am familiar with raccoons propensity to eat the heads off of live chickens (raccoons eat meat in the wild, especially things that live in water.) with the relative boom in ‘urban’ chicken farming of the last decade or so i’d occasionally see a local news story crop up where…

yeah, a lot of them are very accustomed to humans because they adapt so well to urban living (i remember a PBS special on them that said that unlike most wild animals, urban raccoons are actually larger and generally healthier and more successful at reproducing than their rural cousins in a more ‘natural’ setting.)…

apparently (and this should not be a shock) there is a *lot* of subtext about class.... if you’re deeply familiar with contemporary korean culture. i read some stuff on it outside of the movie, but even then i only sort of understood what they were going for

so basically they’ve already offered Andrew Patterson the reboot of independence day?

as someone who has gotten somewhat bored with marvel movies format i’m somewhat grateful to the zac snyder movies for sabotaging their attempt to marvel-ify themselves. i’m digging the new weird place DC is in with their willingness to ignore continuity, experiment with R rated material and go goofy. i much prefer…

i worked as a prep cook/dishwasher in highschool for a summer. it was an acceptable summer job, but it also made it very clear that as much as i enjoy cooking at home and am pretty good at it, it would never be a professional avenue for me. If someone did want to open their own restaurant like that, might be good to…

I had the honor to meet Mr. Douglas at an alumni event a decade or so back and you could not ask for a nicer, kinder and more pleasant person to spend some time with. He truly was a class act