It's true to the book and the spirit of the time though. Just these scary mad scientist Russians beating us at everything. I mean, it is part of the narrative of why certain things were rushed along and the overarching paranoia of the entire Mercury program.

It was a peer vote! John was the obvious public face and front runner, but he told the other guys to stop boozing, racing hot cars and banging astro-groupies and they were like "take a hike, ya ginger square" and voted for party animal Al Shepherd. That astronaut fuuuuuucks.

Nice! I'm just finishing the book now, actually. What a strange personal coincidence.

I could totally see my old boss at the publishing company try some shit like this. Not because he was particularly insidious or evil, but because he thinks everyone trusts and is as invested in the company as he is. "Why wouldn't you want this tech all up in you?! It is awesome!" would totally be his angle.

That sounds like a fantastic fucking meal.

Fucking abundance preachers drive me nuts. Dudes like Joel Osteen "God wants us to have a 100 million dollar church with gold toilets, a private church jet and a fleet of Rolls Royces!"

There is a recent (within the last couple of years) Rolling Stone interview with Manson. At some point, Manson reaches across the prison table and just lightly taps the reporter between the eyes with his index finger. He tells the reporter to "Always remember. If I want to, I can reach out and touch you. Just. Like.…

Perhaps. What did happen is a renowned doctor, author and researcher who is a pioneer in his field and has helped thousands of terminally ill patients face death told me, and a room full of nurses, doctors and surgeons, that it did. You can reject his premise or question his story, but even if it is apocryphal it…

I almost did a spit take with a mouth full of waffles. Thanks beema.

That's a fair reading of it.

Yea, it might be apocryphal. He is pretty earnest though.

That's totally what happened there, right?

Theon dropping his sword, turning and then hopping off the boat when confronted by Euron was fucking hilarious to me for some reason.

It was from a book that he wrote in 1993.

At Pretty much every large gathering I've been to in the last few years everyone was standing around staring at their phones. Usually until the band would go on, then they would hold their phones up for pictures/video.

I can see that.

I can't fucking believe that guy. I never thought id see that shit here.

Good fucking lord, why pay to see a movie in a theater and talk through it?!

I saw Dunkirk. I didn't love it, but I really liked it. I think I was just expecting more. It's a beautiful film, but really lacks heart in my opinion. Nolan can be so clinical and what should have been big emotional moments just come off as maudlin. It's also shockingly loud. Like, deafening. I felt like I had been…

He talks about the exits in the different departments and how he is going to move pallets to block them. Whenever I walk around the grocery I work in - which probably has the same layout - I notice all the pallets of 12-packs of soda and shit on pallet jacks and it strikes me how easy it would be to "lock" all the…