I tend to think this is it in a nutshell. If there is a secret cabal of shadowy figures planning for world domination, then at least there’s a plan.

I’ll say this much - so many McMansions look weirdly desolate inside, because how do you fill that much space? Like, there’ll typically be that one room with a handful of Rubbermaid containers, one lone armchair stuffed in a corner, and a folding table, or something like that. These people clearly don’t have that…

Everything was so glossy. It was awful.

[cracking open a bottle of rude]

I didn’t know porcelain could be made in Dark Pepto Bismol Pink.

I’m comfortable enough with computers that simple modding is easy enough,

The Thomas Kinkade filter on all those photos hurt my eyes after the first dozen or so.

What is going on with those 2nd floor window arches? They just slam into the eave and get clipped off? All that money and you can’t even get the proportions right.

Oh, I don’t think it’s that he’s a product of his times, he’s a product of the “I didn’t do it” mentality that I used to think most people came to terms with before they hit 30. I deal with people who are so terrified of blame and being held responsible that regardless if the question has anything to do with them…

And it’s pretty terrifying to think that a petty, buffoonish con man can get elected to the most powerful office in the world. They need him to be a genius who is out to do brave and brilliant things because if he’s not, then what they see and hear is the same President of the United States that the rest of us see and…

I don’t think it’s so much that the authors are ingenious as that the marks are the opposite of that. Most people who see patterns that don’t exist engage in some critical thinking, rather barge into their local pizza joint with a gun because some random jagoff on the internet said they had a basement.

The most terrifying thing to people is existential dread. What if everything we ever do is just a bunch of stuff that happened? But, but...I’m important.

The idea that they would do a few takes with the character’s wife, then swap her out and do a few takes with the character’s husband is just delightful. 

Well, no, because I forgot to log into my “dumb commenter” gimmick account before posting that.

I’ll admit that a small, still-adolescent part of my brain that formed in 1999 was really hoping to see her dance.

Never forget!

I’m also turned on by the beautiful young man in the dress. I’m just not pointlessly angry about it.

Ben’s just mad that his wife saw Styles in that dress and now she has bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis.

Teal Seam 6

It seems increasingly clear that David O Russell is an asshole. Not that it wasn’t clear before, it just seems increasingly so.