In NYC, they actually checked my vaccine card. I was very comforted by that. 

If anything, Stewart would be a great casting choice for Thufir Hawat.

Plus the movie is full of Chalamet which as I understand it is some sort of Swiss melted chocolate fondue. 

It’s Pumpkin spice! That stuff is in everything these days, not just Lattes.

Yeah, “Doon” was weak. Their earlier LOTR parody, “Bored of the Rings” was pretty good though. It’s a pity that the whole genre of parody novels seems to have died. The closest thing we have is that trend a decade ago when people would add zombies or robots to Austen or Tolstoy, but that’s not quite the same thing.

Make Arrakis Great Again!   You don’t even have to buy new hats, the acronym still works.

If it doesn’t have Sting in a winged Speedo, it ain’t Dune.

A monocle, maybe?

a “too much money, too little taste” sort of aesthetic.

Dune has finally premiered, and it’s a staggering spectacle of sci-fi imagination

No Sting?!   (sorry)

Who do I have to Gom Jabbar to get part 2?

A monorail?! Sounds like a great idea!

I’m sure one of her soundbites was that she, personally, through her grit and genius, was restoring her family to its rightful place. But yes, she was part of that ecosystem. Her dad was a VP at Enron and, even when they went temporarily broke, the family wasn’t homeless because one of his pals lent them his SPARE…

She used the education trust her parents set up (you know, the trust that was paying her ticket at Stanford) as seed money for her company. And even taking a psychiatrist with an understandable axe to grind at face value, her dad still had plenty of connections to set her up with VC funding. This isn’t a scrappy…

Well her father worked at Enron, so con is in the family genes. However, when Enron went belly up, her father came back to Virginia pennyless, and they had to stay in a neighbor’s home.

Of course it happened in Scotland.

I’m worried for Kroger employees in Texas and Mississippi now that their governors have banished mask mandates, and Kroger is still requiring masks in their stores. “Essential worker” went to “person I can abuse with impunity” very quickly.

I love how that one line pretty much sums up political discourse.