I’ve never understood why people cared about this in the sense of it reflecting backwards on the artists. They weren’t operatives. Pollock didn’t try to overthrow President Sukarno. It wasn’t only the abstract expressionists either; the CIA found ways to funnel money in support of various American cultural products (a…

KD was lying to suppress his height and being enabled. Either this is his true shoeless height, or taking out the shoes now lets them fudge something more believable without still putting him over the dumb 7' line.

Do you tell people what your height is in shoes? Do you adjust for when you’re wearing Chucks vs. when you’re wearing boots?

The horror is the disregard America has for the function and consequences of its ineffectively punitive penal system!

Maybe I didn’t see the right clips on Youtube, but the ones I just watched of him fighting James McAvoy aren’t selling me.

Maybe I didn’t see the right clips on Youtube, but the ones I just watched of him fighting James McAvoy aren’t selling me.

Is Willis credible as a guy who can do cool shit in a hand-to-hand fight anymore? When’s the last time he ran on camera? I’m not keeping up with his filmography so I could be wrong, but I feel like he can’t do the stuff Smith does in this movie, or Cruise still does in the MI movies.

Alan Sepinwall did a recap of Watchmen aimed at priming people for this show, and finished it by referencing the journal, so I’d say so.

I think in another post one of the commenters referenced Ang Lee saying that Smith and Tom Cruise were the only practical choices for the movie, given the particular de-aging methodology:

I say this every time the subject comes up but I thought she was going to be the next Julia Roberts and I still don’t know why she wasn’t. I was a big Alias fan in college and I wasn’t interested in seeing this movie but at the time I thought it made total sense as the next move on her path to Hollywood domination.

Henry IV is generally credited as being the first English king (since the Anglo-Saxon kings deposed by William the Conqueror) to speak English as a first language, and one assumes his son would have as well.

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I think it’s believable because I think there is a difference in experience between being quite tall for a woman and being noticeably taller than the average man. The tallest woman I’ve ever talked about this with was about half an inch shy of 6', and she indicated there was a fair amount of social insecurity and…

I have no particular advice here but a funny story about pin heights - once something about the way I came down and then realized I couldn’t go back up again just left me wedged between the bar and the floor and I couldn’t move. At all. The barbell was touching the safety bars but was still really resting on my…

Also the injury frequency in weight lifting activities is smaller than it is in cardio (or more Sporty-sport) activities, with most of those injuries being extremely minor. It’s just that the worst case scenario, while extremely rare, is also pretty terrible.

Two questions:

I think the thought experiment fails on two prongs:

“There are even those who have gone so far as to compare their ideological targets - myself among them - to excrement, a hateful characterization which this helpful link to Google Books will show harkens back to the era of Nazi propaganda.” - Bret Stephens, 9/6/19

Columbus, Ohio, “the test market capital of America,”

Every time I see it my first thought is AZN = Asian, thanks to high school friends’ AOL and AIM account names.