The Apostle is an absolute masterpiece of acting.

The Game is kind of horrific is you consider it as a fable of complete and utter lack of free will.

Indeed it did, but there was no giant metal spider, which was wickedy-wickedy-whack!

Exactly. I'd give Jackie Brown the bronze, but your top two are exactly perfect and anyone disagreeing should feel bad about it.

Damn, I can't find that article, but no matter what, mostly I concur with your last sentence, although they aren't going to be too happy if we conventionally bomb the shit out of NK & China has a flood of refugees pouring in, which will eventually cause problems and instability.

I would hope, but all of these are pipe dreams unfortunately for the unforseeable future.

I do think he was a horrific President and a collosal disaster all around, but I believe he had at least two or three neurons of self awareness. Trump has exactly 0 neurons of these.

I'm not as optimistic as you. Although, Rome survived Caligula.

He did have an iota of humility and self-awareness that he was way out of his depths. Trumps brain worms and/or rat-poison laced coke and/or untreated syphilis has annihilated those portions of his brain where human empathy, self awareness, social cues, etc. all come from. I just hope those brain worms speed things…

Barack Obama received more popular votes than anyone in history, twice. I love reminding people of that. Now if only we could reverse Citizen's United, abolish the EC, regulate and reform campaign finance, abolish for-profit lobbying, federalize elections, stop voter purging, caging and other neo-Jim Crow tactics,…

I just recently read that Putin has quintupled it's exports to North Korea as a wedge to create more mayhem in the US. China, very reductively speaking, at the highest political levels is sort of analogous to when the mob ran Vegas. They just want things quiet and stable so as not to impede their economic and soft…

Ah, remember the good old days when cyberspace was dystopian, before it became naively utopian, and went back to being dystopian again?

If only the bombed babies of Aleppo had known The Secret, none of that awfulness would have happened!

I think your timeline is about right. I remember there was a bit I read in my local SoCal paper about the revival of Lounge and Esquivel in 1995 (I remember this because you could call in and listen to samples of Esquivel and other retro lounge weirdness, because I would call the sample line and put it on speaker…

Let's give Mason Reese a glorious second lease on acting. His lovely flowing auburn locks will have to be cut, though, to fit the shitty yellow hairplugged pate prosthetic.

In the German version of Barbie Girl, the yelly guy sounds like Hitler.

I know this is anethma to bring up here, but I did quite enjoy U2's Pop and really dug my seeing them on the Popmart tour. The studio release came out too early, so it sounded pretty muddy production wise, but they perfected the songs over the course of the tour, so if you bought the subsequent CD singles you could…

I never got to see the Tibetan Freedom Concert, but I played the hell out of that 3-CD compilation set they released in 1997 (IIRC). There were some real gems in there.

And I loved Bill Hader's perfect derpy facial expression in that.

Yeah I think it was generally moderately high but reasonable depending where you bought them, then in the late '90's they seemed to drop briefly, then shot back up again in the early '00's.