Weirdly, James apparently made the decision after having a really weird dream where Edith Piaf songs featured. Probably unrelated though.

Here are the biggest known arthropods. Sleep tight!

“It’s Okay to be Smart” is the shittiest, smarmiest, most self-satisfied name of anything I’ve ever encountered.

Monsters University

Were Kesey & Thompson really exceptions within the counterculture?

You mean the guys who think themes are for book reports? The guys who didn’t bother putting a writers room together, leading to flat storytelling and burnout? The guys who had a burning passion for historical fiction where the CSA won the Civil War?

Yeah. The ending was way too derivative of Children of Dune for it not to be some variation on GRRM’s ending. I doubt D&D read Children of Dune, so GRRM can be the only source.

The very last shot of the film is the best, when it zooms and out and shows the bar is at the top of a Mayan/Aztec temple. The mythology of vampires in Ancient Mexico, and how they could relate to the ones in Europe, could have laid the groundwork for a super cool universe. Instead, because the film is so mostly…

It’s completely possible that you grew up, which is more than can be said for Rodriguez and Tarantino.

I watched this like 15 years ago without knowing anything about it because I was bored and my parents had some free movie channel weekend preview going.

How topical. Thanks for chiming in.

All I know about Transnistria came from reading the Tony Hawks’  book (not that Tony Hawks - the other one) Playing the Moldovans at Tennis.  A worthy follow up to his Round Ireland With a Fridge.

Baseball has a very high ratio of downtime versus action compared to other team sports. The ambient noise actually helps distract viewers from the boring parts when nothing is happening.

If I played baseball, or even gave a flying fuck about it, the isolation of an empty stadium would be perfect. It would be the perfect game. No distractions. No bullshit. I’m really baffled players aren’t chomping at the bit to finally just focus on the game this way. Given how obnoxious televised sports are, this…

I love the fact that you included the transcript. It was timed perfectly for me, watching the first part but scrolling down to find a transcript of what was being said just as I might’ve otherwise clicked away.

Couldn’t Tatiana Maslany just do it as 4 different characters?

If you have a clown posse it seems to me that the adjective ‘insane’ is, well, redundant at best.

Tell me more, tell me more. 

How about the Washington Ruskins, in honor of the influential Victorian-era art critic. The masoct could be a guy in a suit with a huge beard.

Corman is also famous for producing 1993's Carnosaur, a cheesy low budget Jurassic Park  ripoff. But what makes it brilliant is that it stars Diane Ladd, who is Laura Dern’s mother. All ripoff movies should have parts for the relatives of the relevant stars.