RIP to a stone cold legend. True story, I used “Mrs. Peel, we’re needed” as my senior yearbook quote, because I was very into The Avengers at the time and fuck all that hacky inspirational bullshit.

The last time I checked* there was still no one listed for Feyd on the IMBd page, leading to a running joke in my house that it was Sting again and the filmmakers wanted it to be a surprise.

*shrug* I love most Hitchcock movies, but am not particularly fond of Rebecca. It has too many of the cinematic tics of its era (like a melodramatic string score that never shuts up) for me to truly enjoy it. The performances are... fine, but it never really caught the feeling of the novel to me. Probably that wasn’t…

The horologists? They make a brief appearance; there’s also some tie-in with The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. It feels a little shoehorned in, to be honest, and is probably the least interesting part of the story. But it doesn’t take up a lot of space and overall I still like it.

I’m about halfway through David Mitchell’s newest, Utopia Avenue. I’m enjoying it, and I get the feeling that the frequent complaint I see about how “on the nose” it is is the same tired code that phrase usually is, jerks being smug about knowing a lot about the genre discussed without wishing to appear smug. I liked…

Saturday was the first 2020 Record Store Day, which has been broken up into 3 days a month apart in response to the pandemic. My understanding is there were 2 reasons behind this, the first being that if not all the special releases dropped at once, fewer people would storm the (usually pretty small) participating…

When did Skyler Giscondo start drawing on his eyebrows with Sharpie? And why is he airbrushed to look like a 47-year-old in the movie poster? I have questions, but I don’t want answers badly enough to see this dreck.

Hell, I lived in the Bay Area during their marriage and I constantly forget. I think because she’s had so much weird plastic surgery that she looks like a different person. Did she somehow make her mouth wider? I didn’t think that was possible! Makes it easier to scream lies, I guess.

If you had to read Ayn Rand for a class, and you kept the book (instead of selling it back, or throwing it in an abandoned septic tank), it’s still a huge red flag.

FIVE WHOLE DAYS OFF? Christ, I work for a lunatic who huffs Fox News in his office all day, in an “at will” red state where I can be fired if my socks don’t match, and I get triple that, plus a ham at Christmas.

I put Sexy Beast on a short list titled “Great movies that I never want to see again”. Watching Ben Kingsley in it felt like being beaten with a sack of doorknobs. The only other performance that has made me that physically exhausted was Sharon Stone in Casino.

Jane Curtin’s daughter saying one of the hot air balloons was named “The Fuckin’ Whatever” and then you see a model balloon with that printed on it. Killed me.

I watched the first episode of Netflix’s (Un)Well last night, then immediately went on Amazon and bought an essential oil diffuser, which... I suspect may not have been the show’s intent. In my defense, I just like things that smell nice and most incense produces too many particulates for me. I don’t plan on…

“How would I describe Suzanne? 4 letters, starts with c. ...cold. She was cold.” I have a persistent daydream about ice skating to Donovan’s “Season of the Witch” because of this movie.

I live pretty close to New Orleans. I don’t need a Hulu subscription to see idiots tossing their cookies all over the street.

“Danbury, CT can eat my entire ass.”

Reading Last Summer at Mars Hill and Other Stories by Elizabeth Hand; on audio, The Unreality of Memory and Other Essays by Elisa Gabbert. Really enjoying them both; Hand’s older work largely has a very Millennial sheen to it, but enough time has passed that it now feels nostalgic. Although I’ve avoided Glimmering,…

Haha, it’s funny because Cain arguably died as a result of Trump’s insanely bungled pandemic response* and now he’s kissing Trump’s ass from beyond the grave!

How is this a “new theory”? Carl Sagan was talking about this stuff in 1980.

Why they stitched open Charlie’s eyes wasn’t a mystery, I thought the reason for it was evident pretty quickly. As for what happened to his body, I never thought we were supposed to think Alice moved it. It was Birdy. She tried to get Alice to run away and when she wouldn’t and Birdy realized she was going to go…