I read that in a Jerry Seinfeld voice

Watched it for 30 minutes, laughed more than I have at 30 minutes of “written” comedy in ages. It’s absurd, it doesn’t make any sense, and because it’s not adhering to typical formulaic comedy tropes or setups it is able to surprise you (destruction of an expectation is the root of the majority of good comedy).

I’ll…

Meanwhile, enjoy Discovery+’s new “reality” show: Game of Thrones

Speaking of which, here’s a list of the ones who refused to stand during Zelensky’s speech. There’s actually a couple missing that I expected to be here. I also think it’s awesome that he met Biden and addressed congress all while wearing the same OD pullover and pants he’s worn since the war began.

Republicans refuse to support breastfeeding mothers.  The ads write themselves, hopefully.  Democrats have a tough Senate map in 2024, I hope they assigned someone to keep a running list of all the horrible shit they can credibly claim Republicans stand for!

Does this snake eating its own tail battle end up like Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton??? Seeing as how these two morons love guns so much, let’s put them 20 paces apart in the middle of the street and see how things shake out. At least we’d be down one of ‘em.

One of the most fascinating aspects of the adaptation is that Chigurh’s dialogue is heavily cut down for the movie version. In the book he has several monologues detailing his philosophy that were basically all cut which makes him more impenetrable, for the better I think.

I’m probably remembering this wrong, but in an interview with Cormac McCarthy, he said the only thing the Coens invented whole cloth was the bit with the dog and the river, which he loved.

No Country for Old Men is a masterpiece, and the gas station scene in the clip above may be my favorite from the movie. But I do want to ask a question about the ending, and hopefully get some responses from the commentariat here:

Hoo boy. I don’t really want Shephard to return, as I’d prefer a new trilogy tread new ground instead of being focused on ‘hey, remember all of your friends from the good old days?’ The only scenario here that sounds appealing is the idea of Liara finding hints over her long lifespan that Shephard may not be gone, and…

this is a good reminder how absolutely vicious immigrants can be when it comes to the immigrants that want to follow them; some of the most virulently anti-immigrant people I have ever met (here, the UK, Canada) were immigrants themselves, they practically trip over themselves to pull up the ladder behind them. There…

rest of us are told to play nice.

Exactly. It’s going to become a bigger cesspool than it already is with the “free speech absolutist” censoring anyone who drags his manky ass for filth while he allows every white supremacist, Nazi POS with a bigoted ax to grind run amok while the rest of us are told to play nice.

True censorship will happen under his watch. He will censor anyone engaging in boycotting or criticism of him and his ilk. And then give free regin to let people use racial, misogynistic, homophobic, etc. slurs.

What do you think the overlap in the Venn diagram is between video game players that talk about how difficult games shouldn’t have easy modes (and probably use cheese strata to get through said difficult games) and players complaining about skill based matchmaking that reveals they aren’t as good as they think.

Did Newsmax not get the memo? That is literally the GOP’s mid-term narrative. Absolutely nothing she said is outside the mainstream in the GOP base right now.

Man... Newsmax is cutting ties with you because you’re too extreme, and yet you used to be an award winning correspondent on 60 Minutes? Time for some therapy. The oddball thing is that I’m pretty sure she’s not even American, having been born in South Africa (which could explain the above average racism) why everyone…

Surprising that Newsmax still feels any need to decry anti-Semitism.

I used to feel sorry for her. It seems like she was pretty fucked up after the mass sexual assault in Egypt followed by imploding her mainstream journalism career with the Benghazi stuff.

I think I’d be more on board with calls to quit comparing people to Hitler if there wasn’t a significant and growing faction of us marching off towards Nazism.