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I’m not saying that the inhalation of industrial adhesive fumes at a developing age has anything to do with your taste in movies...but...I’m not not saying it, either. 

I don’t anymore but for a while I was heavily active in a Facebook group for Old School Rules (OSR) D&D. It was mostly white guys my age or slightly older whining about shit or looking for excuses to post pictures of women in bikini chainmail.

It does suck that, if you content is only on streaming, it can be disappeared.  At least in legacy media, there would be a tape or DVD bouncing around.  I have resorted to torrenting when something can no longer be found legally.  

You sound like a rational person who genuinely just didn’t like it, which is fine. I was remarking more on the rabid fanatics who really lost their marbles over shit like having women in lead/warrior roles and having same-sex relationships and all that. 

No. No, we didn’t. That’s why we invented VCRs to either rent them from the store or tape them off of the TV and watch them again later.

It should be a law that Tuesday is Ice Cream Day for everyone

It was indeed a fun show that ended up square in the crosshairs of reactionary morons who

Agreed. It started out pretty weak and I felt all the characters were shrill and one-note (Willow most of all) but as the series went on, the writing got better, the characters deepened, and the chemistry of the charismatic cast increased. By the end, I was really won over.

Plus, on a personal level, while I liked the

I really liked the trippy atmospheric bits, especially that penultimate episode where they’re traveling across the Shattered Sea.

Yeah. Willow was fun to watch, which is something a lot of shows can’t say, and I wish they’d made more. Unfortunately it was a victim of the screeching “Go woke go broke” twits who attacked every positive review and comment because it committed the crime of having multiple female leads. Pity. I rewatched it in a

Like I’m not saying that if I had two hundred million dollars or whatever that’s the show I would make, but it was kinda fun. I thought Ruby Cruz was quite good.

“[H]e used to be a voracious reader—he didn’t want anyone to know that”.

When we got married 25 years ago, we played “Good Lovin’” at the end of the ceremony as a homage

They probably wouldn’t have announced the diagnosis if the situation hadn’t begun to crater.

Fifth Element will always be his best movie. It's peak Willis. 

He popped up this morning in our conversation at breakfast time when the wife and I were deciding on a movie for the weekend and we settled on The Expendables 4. Rotten shame about Willis, I liked Moonlighting so much that I bought the soundtrack album. His music video of Good Lovin’ with him riding a horse with BMW

To think, I initially gave Moonlighting a shot because Booger was in it.

I was not prepared for how sad I was going to feel reading this and realizing that Bruce is already at the point where he can’t talk, and his family is no longer 100% certain that he’s even fully aware of the world around him anymore. Like, we all knew that’s where this was heading, but I think we were hoping he’d be

For some reason this article omits the Moonlighting creator’s last name. It’s Glenn Gordon Caron.

It’s very sad. Dementia is a very cruel illness. And I say that as someone with direct first hand experience/observation.