Definitely the former. It has philosphical pretensions, but mostly it’s an excuse for brooding, ponderous monologues, and sleight of hand with plot and timelines.

I have no opinion about this movie, but I’d like to engage on your musings about what makes a good movie.

Because they didn’t have videos of Swedes getting pissed on, and what are you going to do, watch BELGIANS piss on each other?

I’ll never write that book either! Got any blessings for me?

I mostly pick around Fleetwood Mac to get to the Lindsey Buckingham, so this is great news to me. Like Wings firing Paul McCartney.

Yes, we should leave it up to the filmmaker to tell us whether a movie works or not.

That’s how I feel about the new season of Westworld. I finally got around to watching the Season 2 premiere, and I think I’m just done with it.

For a brief while, there was a mania for “open letters,” which was annoying on a number of levels. Then just as quickly, that fad was replaced by “oral histories,” most of which had (to me, at least) the tone and depth of “I Love the _____” clip shows.

That’s also true of the written word. Compare an article from National Review to a Donald Trump tweet about the same issue.

I saw a crazy thing the other day about some date computation giving a wonky result to a programmer, and the root problem was that in 1927 Singapore set its clocks back by ~5 minutes, so a small number of times happened twice and measurements before and after that adjustment got thrown off.

“You don’t need to say ‘in my opinion.’ Everyone knows it’s your opinion because you’re the one saying it. You only need to say whose opinion it is if it isn’t yours.” —Every English Teacher

If my dog wants to see it, she’ll have to go without me.

It’s not really a pop hit, but I’ve always wanted a Social Distortion cover of “Waltzing Matilda.”

That would be Gary Jules. That’s the first example of the genre that I remember really just being everywhere. That said, it’s the ONLY one I remember for quite a while.

John Galt.

>If someone with a similar name to yours dies, get ready to see your obituary

Ernie, is that you?

Okay, then:

Definitely not. But it’s not a death sentence the way that gigantism is.

Jesus, dude, lighten up. When people say “atheists are just as annoying as religious people,” this is exactly what they’re talking about.