In fairness, “Every Breath You Take” was supposed to be creepy. Sting was originally a teacher, and wrote it about a schoolgirl who formed an inappropriate crush on him iirc.

This is weird. And I got so excited when I saw the article contributors.

Anyway, I wonder how much “One from the Heart” influenced Baz Luhrmann? If so, he spotted what Coppola missed - pacing and vitality - because, Christ, that film feels like a slog.

In fairness, I’ve often wondered whether I’m speaking Spanish when I’m drunk.

It’s how he’d want it. On a personal note, the graph of what percentage of these I actually recognise over the years would be a pretty depressing downward slope.

I have some regret at the failure of Google+. The circles feature was an excellent, albeit obvious, idea, and FB could have done with some decent competition.

Can you clarify that last sentence - I’m not sure if that ‘ever’ should be a ‘never’ (and it’s weird that it sort-of makes sense either way).

It’s not a burn; it’s an observation.

There’s a good Lyndsay Ellis video comparing the relative merits and faults of WotW and Independence Day.

“This was not about money for him,” Paul Buchanan, Fesser’s attorney

That headline is so confusing.

How about not sending your dna to these companies in the first place, because it’s all bullshit? Oh, so you’re 1% West African, and 1% Sioux? Woop-de-doo.

It looks like a fuck-up to me. I mean, even the whitest white person can tell those two apart, so the balance of probs goes to a snafu, given “wrong picture for the segment” isn’t exactly unknown. Otherwise, it would have to be malice.

Are they saying that his mental condition made him a racist, or just made him a really stupid defendant?

This is worse than “Failure to Launch”?!?

I’m currently playing Marley (and various) in a stage production. I’m glad to say, we’ve got better reviews...

I don’t have any particular loyalty to the original - I mean, I enjoyed it, but it’s Goonies rather than Back to the Future - but I sort-of liked this, even though it’s bathed in reverence for a franchise I don’t think deserves it. Weird.

Apart from anything else, why not make a comparison with income/employment rather than ethnicity?

Anyone read Seveneves?

Love it, but I’ve always felt it had one action sequence too many.

“These trivialities demean me - I must away and tend to my ravens.”