I’ve been running these live streams on my TV while I work from home all week. Moon jellies in particular are incredibly soothing. Highly recommended.

The cast is really stacked with great actors. I suspect most of them would be excited about doing wordless reactions in lieu of dialogue sometimes.

This is the comic book nostalgia I’m here for.

The Pinkertons were evil fucks. Sorry, are evil fucks. So if this does turn out to be The Cloverfield Effect II, it’ll serve them right.

The novels also had literary ambition — “what if J.K. Rowling wrote novellas about ennui for the New Yorker” — so having a dickhead POV character fits.

It’s a harder fit in a show that wanted to be a more traditional heroic fantasy, even as it liked to wink at the tropes.

Election Day has melted my brain.

Also, it was a super boring take on what’s a really great mystery on the page. Much cheaper and less lavish takes on it in the past were much better.

The irony is that these magicians spend most of their time fucking.

The irony is that the show made him vastly more likable than the novels, where he’s the most punchable character there. (Although Penny, who was a giant asshole/creep in the novels, is a close second.)

The heyday of Agatha Christie adaptations is decades behind us. (The unbelievably lame Death on the Orient Express definitely didn’t help there.) I think a lot of the audience doesn’t have any real familiarity with the structure.

Eh. I read his Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, which has plenty of difficult concepts in its, and the book was extremely clear and easy to understand. Maybe it was all ghost-written, but given how many books he has to his name, I doubt it.

Billy Zane must wake up every morning, stare into the mirror and say “what the fuck happened, man?”

It was an action movie using old dialogs.

On the other hand, I had to Google “Pontoise,” which is apparently a word we’re all supposed to know now.

(It’s a commune in Paris.)

If you are not familiar with the details of this case, be warned: It’s extremely disturbing. It’s far worse than merely the “beating” of an 8 year old boy, as the headline in that Netflix still characterizes it.

While this is an important story to have out there, especially if it gets government agencies to take…

Also, he’s a pretty boy made out of clay. I’m not sure why anyone is expecting much out of him.

She’s been under a conservatorship run by her dad for years. He calls the shots and gets paid by these deals and, in theory, slides her a cut as well.

So she’s a 38 year old woman hoping dad remembers to pay her the allowance she’s owed.

It’s worth noting that this is viewed as a pretty shady deal by many Britney fans (I’m not one, but the Twitter buzz around this was fascinating and I fell down a rabbit hole) and a way to exploit her image without her input or her receiving any of the revenue.

It was hard when I had to tell my kids that I thought Chipotle was “just okay.”

I use Waze, but its interface is astonishingly bad. If Apple ever copies Waze’s social features, Waze will be in real trouble. A number of people I’ve pitched Waze too found the whole thing too cumbersome and intimidating and stuck with worse options as a result.

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