Having worked at McD’s long ago, I’ll confirm this and also add onto it the fact that negligent cleaning directly leads to the machines breaking down, causing a rapidly escalating death-spiral. It was treated fairly lightly, as Corporate would be by within a couple of days to repair or replace them.

Also “Copyright MMXX”.

Redmayne’s campy performance in Jupiter Rising was actually one of its highlights, which tells you much about that movie.

Those lists are fairly overloaded. Here are ones I remember being widely discussed the year they came out:

It’s SunSET Towers, not Sunrise. The sun sets in the west — just about everyone knows that — but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Using abbreviations like “SWF”, “SBF”, etc. was common parlance in the days when there were printed personal ads, especially for roommate-wanted or romance sections.

Correction accepted. I was also not aware of Before the Storm (book 1)!

Currently reading Joshua Specht’s Red Meat Republic, a chronicle of how the history of cattle ranching and beef production is intertwined with the development of the USA itself through westward expansion. I was driven to it as much as anything by my newfound adoration for Howard Hawks’ Red River, the only western I’ve…

This is a minor nit, but the character of Tommy Johnson was based more directly on the real blues musician named Tommy Johnson who preceded (the unrelated) Robert Johnson, and to whom the myth about selling his soul to the devil was first associated.  It doesn’t matter much because in the movie, Tommy plays the songs…

I get that name recognition wouldn’t be as high...

Red Dead Redemption 2. Surprising myself by how smoothly this is going for me; just started Chapter 5, and if I can just get in some more playtime, I could come to close to finishing the campaign. I had abandoned RDR1 for being too finicky, but I must be used to it now. Despite its richness, I am finding the game’s…

Already ordering my P0SS=220R vanity plate...

You’re not wrong, but I see it as more complex. Pascal wanted them (both) to work for him because, aside from his own mercernary motives, he also wanted them to be happy and stable (even saying, “I wanted to save you”). He saw that they were miserable running the Paradise. I think the movie argues for his soulfulness…

He’s a soulful sellout. One of my all-time favorite lines is when his character roars, “BITE YOUR TEETH into the ASS of LIFE!” and tries to bite Stanley Tucci out of sheer exuberance.

I definitely remember Pac-Man’s arrival. I was a video game kid, ten years of age in 1980, and I kept up with what was big. In 1978, it was Space Invaders. ‘79 was Asteroids; ‘80 was the astonishingly immersive Battle Zone, which, like a true vector-graphics champion, drew lines around the block. (Sorry, little…

I feel this way about pretty much every single comedian I’ve ever seen.

Triple crossover:  Now You / SAW / What I Did Last Summer

I would agree with this, had I not just watched Post Malone’s Nirvana tribute livestream from Friday night, which was surprisingly faithful and rockin’.

I’m that guy. Soft pretzels were my first food love as a kid. Still love them served fresh with the thick pretzel salt. Pretzel bread does not taste like normal bread, although I’m not sure why. We only have the ubiquitous Auntie Annie’s and Pretzelmaker chains here now (and I don’t live anywhere close enough to have…

Dr. No might be my favorite Bond because it’s set (and shot) in London and Jamaica, the two geographical halves of Ian Fleming’s life and personality, which makes it maybe the purest Fleming movie.