Marvel’s Captain Marvel has always been an unpopular character/comic. A lot of it is due to the character initially being created as a way to essentially squat a trademark. On top of that, the current iteration of Carol Danvers has been strongly associated with the social justice and feminist movement since Kelly Sue…

As someone who’s enjoyed Marvel films and isn’t a comic book fan, I think “sucking the joy out the film to give it more meaning” isn’t a good strategy going forward. Some of the films seem just too earnest and dark. Can’t they have more fun?  And some of us don’t want to eat our spinach.

BUT the elixir survived so it was “immortal”. Unless the ancients considered body preservation as “immortality” since, according to the archaeologist, the body was well preserved.

That’s kind of what I was thinking. The only reason he was firing Frond in the first place was to open up a job for his deadbeat brother in law. When the bro-in-law decided it would be a pain, there’s no reason for Frond NOT to keep the job.

I don’t agree. The world without “Intervention”, “No Cars Go” and “Reflektor” would be awful.

I’m not sure that The Prodigy defined the decade. Their main innovation was realizing that a frontman made their live shows a lot more compelling than a couple of skinny English dudes jumping around behind a DJ booth.

LibreOffice Writer should be able to open them just fine, at which point you can save new copies in the modern .docx format so you can read/edit them in Word in the future.

Louise is going to run the family restaurant when she grows up & change the name to Louise’s Burgers

Eternal question: is The Man With No Name really a man with no name, or is he three different, named characters? Eastwood plays a similar character named Joe, Manco, and Blondie in the three films, but Gian Maria Volonté and Lee Van Cleef play different major characters in two films each.

Kids books are filled with unnamed characters — the Cat in the Hat, the Mad Hatter, the Little Prince, countless Mothers and Fathers. Probably sometimes it’s a reflection of the way the distinctionn between proper nouns and regular nouns isn’t always so clear for kids.

I’m rather surprised Wikipedia could only compile 43 hits for that list. Even if we just go by characters that have specific pages, there’s a couple of notable omissions (The Tall Man from the Phantasm series for one example.)

So...am I the only one who went and downloaded a bunch of Danny Kaye/Andrews sisters songs after hearing Civilzation (Bingo bango bongo) on the Fallout 3 soundtrack?

...I also blame Civ 4 for my longtime infatuation with Antonín Dvořák, though I wouldn’t classify his pieces as “songs”.

One of my favorite things to do on Spotify is to comb through the catalogs of perceived one hit wonders. I discovered Terry Jacks’ band The Poppy Family and especially the song “There’s No Blood In Bone”. Turns out Darkwave was invented in the 60s by the guy who did “Seasons in the Sun”

That reminds me of this great SNL bit:

This is about the level of crazy that I would hope for, if not need, from her

I also think Garner was way more hunky at that age than Gosling.

...and now the toy company’s new partnership with MGM is giving birth to a live-action “family adventure” based on the your grandma’s favorite toy, the View-Master.

“In an unstable world, one man will hold it all together with only a few, thin, sticks.”

I would’ve immediately jumped up and exclaimed “KerPlunk!”

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