“I believe everything...and I believe nothing. I suspect everyone...and I suspect no one.” That and “Do not trifle with me, Monsieur. I am skilled in karate... My hands are lethal weapons!” were my go-to.

A Shot in the Dark was one of the movies we’d watch in our junior high school auditorium when we couldn’t go outside for gym for some reason (must have been raining or something). I remember that film and another one they showed, Cool Hand Luke, better and more fondly than any of my teachers or fellow students. Me and…

With the possibility of a trade war, wondering if we’ll be seeing government tofu and soy milk soon.

Maybe it was different where you grew up, but in the city I grew up in, in the Inland Empire of Southern California, it was nigh-on impossible to buy fresh vegetables in the ‘70s. Everything was frozen or canned. Foil-covered TV dinners and fish sticks ruled, as did concentrated orange juice.

My grandma used to get peanut butter, cheese, and butter free from the USDA - I believe it was some type of subsidy to buy those foods and keep them from flooding the market and keep prices up. When I was a college student I used to come from San Jose over to her subsidized apartment (in Palo Alto, torn down 20 years…

You can google Erin Fleming to see. Every big star has hangers-on, no matter what field they’re in.

Every industry ever created has vultures. There was Groucho Marx and Erin Fleming, also that old oil guy who Anna Nicole Smith married when he was 89. Usually it’s either a family member, or the old guy still thinks he’s got it and hooks up with a golddigger. If it makes you feel better (probably not), the vultures…

There is one good scene (well OK, one good line): Where Ray Liotta’s character, Shoeless Joe Jackson, says “Ty Cobb wanted to play, but none of us could stand the sonofabitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it!”

Has anybody watched Fear Strikes Out? It sounds like a movie right up my alley.

Pretty sure that Ted would crap his pants to try to get out of it.

No, she wrote it entirely in longhand, using eyeliner.

Generally you need a heel and a face. Two heels might be like combining the streams in Ghostbusters. The heat would be tremendous.

I love the book. Thompson’s book goes more into how the hippie movement kind of flamed out, and how when looking at the valley, you could almost see where the wave broke and then rolled back. Gilliam seemed to focus on the drugs and mayhem, which is easy to do.

Pigs are clean animals, given the chance, and they provide us with life-giving Hormel Black Label bacon. Leave them out of this mess.

This is the first time I’ve heard that she used the “Fugue State” defense. Walter White borrowed from the greats.

New Yorker captions can’t melt steel beams!

True, he’s a visionary and always has been, but directors have to make money for their studios at some point, no matter how good they are. Don’t think he’s had a hit for a while. What I’m trying to say is, I don’t think there’s some big conspiracy out there. I don’t know him, but given the themes of his movies, I’m…

Three words: Fear and Loathing. Good god that was a horrible movie. Will always love him for Brazil though.

I browsed that book he wrote at the library when it came out (i like to check the New Releases section). The book has some great illustrations (naturally), but (spoiler!) he is bitter about many things.

Needs a record scratch and then some bouncy 3rd wave ska music. But that’s my answer to everything!