Oh my effing god, I had to make that ‘I am no less married today than before same sex marriage’ and it felt just as idiotic that I had to make it.

For every kid like that, Godzilla is the first instantiation of ‘but this one goes to eleven’, because Godzilla goes to effing eleven!!

When I see stuff from Mother Jones, I always read it because they do a really good job of reframing news in a way that forces me to think more critically, which is always welcome. I need to start reading them on the regular.

Ellisons 1970’s era screenplay for I, Robot with concept art by Mark Zug (I think) came out a few years back, and he wrote a lengthy intro on the painful conception to death of that version of the story/film.

Likewise. I remember thinking the film had a distinct look that was so ornate but ‘believable’ enough that it worked. The guild navigators we saw who represented the various stages of spice addiction and mutation from warts-and-hose-up-my-nose to spacegoing mutant whale were alien AF. I even liked the presentation of…

Michael Shannon shines too bright to be a character actor, and is way to dominant to put alongside pretty much any ‘leading man’ but too grounded to actually fit most ‘leading man’ roles.

Took my 7 year old son to see the most recent Godzilla. Kid does not like Star Wars, Trek, or any movie franchise or show except Pacific Rim.

In the US, a cash deposit over $10k gets automatically flagged for FBI review. They will have questions.

I have not compared the two head to head, but WaPo has certainly put out some good stuff I have read.

Sulzburger needs to go too.

Yah. Not disagreeing at all. I think the one takeaway is exactly your point - good human stories will appeal (and sell), which many studios just dont understand.

My kids and I (all white bread AF) love ‘Into the Spiderverse’, and when we watched it, at no point did I think ‘this is a black story’ despite it being obviously focused on a mixed family of color - and I don’t know if I missed something, or if it was just such a great film in every way that just resonated…

That is a movie I would watch the hell out of.

Seconded.

I agree with your point on media - I also worked in newspapers many lifetimes ago - but as you note, for a piece by an outside contributor like Tom Cotton, not reading prior to publication is raw idiocy.

Its editorial, not news, so he had plenty of time to do his absurdly well-paying job of, you know, editing. NYT is a great newspaper, but their editorial staff and management should be sent back to junior college where apparently their critical thinking skills were stopped dead half-formed.

Read it. Bookmarked it. Noted it carefully for future reference and will be forwarding it.

Sex. Tons and tons of sex. Lots of interviews with past olympians, and the common denominator was boning.

Already happened in Chicago. Dipshit white dude in a Joker mask got caught, on video, burning a police vehicle and related shenanigans. Being a borderline crowdsourced surveillance society has its advantages, apparently.

Depends what you think happens in the Olympic village.