This looks like what I would stencil in 7th grade. It is distinctive but in no way professional.

Alice Purslay. 

Just remember to wear your anti-static grounding mustache. (You can edit it out later.)

John’s bard is now alternately Lou Reed, Nick Cave, or Thom Yorke.

Originally I tried to transcribe it in full, but I quickly realized that describing it was actually going to be funnier. I’m just glad it made it through the edit.

I don’t know this guy from Adam and it was still a great read. Especially the inclusion of this:

Serve your pudding in the fanciest glass you have

Moroun spent the ‘90s buying up cheap riverfront properties on both sides of the border with the stated intention of building a second span

This was the first movie my wife and I saw together in the theater.

We’ve since watched it every single Valentine’s Day, which means I’ve seen Away We Go twelve times, and my appreciation for it has only grown. It’s one of the sweetest, most honest stories about a relationship I’ve ever seen in any medium.

Nope. Missing clear Oscar winners Sonic the Hedgehog and Bad Boys 4 Life.

I was expecting SMB, but with audio clips from early Madden games.

a thing that consistently makes me laugh is a ‘review’ on the back of a carl reiner book i have:

Maybe somewhere there is a more queer-friendly Bob Guccione-type to make a Caligula-style movie about this guy 

It’s especially weird in that the plot of Begins and TDKR are both, in different ways, reliant on the geography of Gotham. Begins shows us that most of Gotham City is on the mainland, with the Narrows being a small island separated by a drawbridge. TDKR’s plot requires most of Gotham to be on a Manhattan-like island…

Agreed. There are tons of ways to integrate that Gotham feel into Chicago (though I thought the Gotham police station was damn close), and it was definitely a bit of a letdown to see Chicago just chopped up and used wholesale

It’s kind of weird how the two Burton movies are still, to this day, the only two live action movies that present Gotham as a fictional city with its own unique history and architecture. Schumacher’s Gotham is totally incoherent, with no sense of geography or style beyond putting neon lights on everything. But Nolan…

You’ve neglected to mention the other out-sized “first” accomplishment Batman achieved.

This is still the Gotham City aesthetic that I think most perfectly captures what Gotham “should” look like. All the statues of muscular men pulling levers and “glory of labor” aesthetic, but rotting down. Sort of an amalgamation of the Rust Belt cities fused with Diego Rivera and communist propaganda. What a genius…

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