solipschism--disqus
Solipschism
solipschism--disqus

"It's called Clothes. It's about the secret life of clothes. John Ratzenberger plays a tie."

He is one notch too keyed-up for me to relax during his interviews or candid bits.

I saw that; you were good!

I have nothing against people who don't care for sports! Concerns over CTE are perfectly reasonable and articles from current and former players have guaranteed I would never downplay that. My indictment was only directed towards the self-satisfied, faux-confused embracers of the #Sportsball phenomenon, i.e. feigning

I'm sorry you couldn't get Stamkos. But at least you aren't Montréal today.

Proud Minnesotan and Wild fan here. Hockey is the best. Good luck with Yeo in the coming years!

Chewing on this, it looks like this extends into Chomsky's somewhat Orwellian school of thought that certain diversions are constructed, buttressed, and sustained as purely escapism so as to continuously distract the laypeople at large from "things that matter" - a concept that he has not defined to my satisfaction.

#Sportsball is such a curiously stupid slight to have evolved. I would place it on the same plane as anti-intellectualism in that, for whatever reason, a subset of people suddenly decide to pride themselves in ignorance - even to the extent that they exaggerate it so humorously like "I think he just hit a touchdown

I find that shot of Tommen framed before his fall interesting too, because they break another pretty simple rule of cinematography, where you don't let your character's head define the top of the frame. Instead, they let his head clip out of it, and I think it creates a dissonance that's then immediately resolved with

Ha, that Chris Martin can't wait to get the hell out of there, huh?!

If it means more O'Neal then I say Brexit, stage left!*

There's a superb if somewhat worst-case article in the Economist detailing the answers to your exact questions. I'd refer to that.

Well yeah, that's the gist

Even Thatcher would have had more sense than this

[some pun about the vapors]

I am Fartacus

Dikachu's nose is espied as a shark's dorsal fin circling the commentariat

The Farting Third!

and, it must be said, he's been in some good stuff since Harry Potter

Farting.