i grew up in manitowoc, wisconsin where the MAKING A MURDERER documentary takes place and that series presents the fairly plausible scenario of a bunch of hick cops falsifying evidence to convict a guy who was going to sue the shit out of the police department for sending him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. if…

the solution is pretty simple: take away their immunity from prosecution and strike all the associated bullshit from their union contracts, have the justice department investigate all killings involving a police officer to ensure impartial and transparent review, and then start taking their guns away in communities…

one nerd* on another site is already predicting that this show will be revealed to be taking place in the same universe/continuity as the original films and that harris's character will turn out to be the same robot portrayed by brynner.

i read all kinds of isaac asimov books when i was growing up and The Caves of Steel and sequels (along with the Norby books) were favorites. i never understood the hatred frequently shown to the robots and childishly reasoned that i would never behave similarly.

i almost fell on my ass when, circa 2009 or so, my mom sheepishly admitted to having spent more than $800 on a set of knives from a similar marketing operation peddled by a former co-worker of hers. she uses, at best, maybe three of the knives on a regular basis and confessed to purchasing the entire set just to get…

KISS ME DEADLY might be what youre looking for…

what about fuckery? i'm, uh, asking for a friend.

it nakes for a great double feature with THE USUAL SUSPECTS and an even better three-movie marathon if you cap it off with GROSSE POINT BLANK and/or RESEVOIR DOGS if you're ever planning a 90s theme night. bonus points if you have people dress in costume - i'm calling Finster, accent and all.

yeah but it leaves LA Confidential in the argueably much cooler category of Films Better Than The Film That Got The Oscar That Year.

maybe the giant is just holding onto it for you and will return it when you're ready to hear the message?

i'm 44 and just married a 29-year-old.

re: hoarding of out-of-print books: UGGGH! i hate that idiotic attitude so much… this idea that some long-forgotten creative work, which was literally published on pulp with high acid content that was already brittle and yellow with age after the first two decades of its existence and was mass produced using the…

well, that's an incredibly generous sentiment, so thank you kindly in return!

Whoa! Dude wrote 12 books in less than four years? Thats practically a journalistic level of output… Sounds like he had a masters in drama from Yale and died youngish with a couple unpublished books. Any suggestions on which to start with or should i just start with whatever i can snag?

it's an interesting question, isn't it? a lot of film and television that is considered ground-breaking and innovative on release doesn't tend to age all that well or appeal to generations who come to it later, as audiences develop more kinetic media literacy (i'm in my 40s and find shit like The Transformers movies…

this is awesome, because i'm imagining that you were called away from your keyboard suddenly and the proper conclusion to your story is: "and one happy day, me and everyone in our respective network just snapped and simultaneously screamed GET HER!!! whereupon we all chased her off a cliff where she burst into flames…

not that anyone was asking for suggestions but…

now i'm curious: what was the crime fiction series the guy who worked at the bookstore didn't know about?

i thought the punchline was "The Aristocrats!"?

you say "everybody has an ugly" but i say: nuh-uh, not Roxie Keogh. there's nothing ugly about Roxie Keogh.