I never read the book but I didn't think Ashley Wilkes was a weenie. He fought in the civil war, was a good husband, was smart enough to know the war wouldn't be won, fought carpetbaggers, and he realized that Scarlet was not for him. Seemed pretty tough and smart to me.

Chump don' wan' da help, chump don' get da help

After reading this it occurred to me that the ending reminds me a bit of the ending of Interstellar. It is post-climactic, disorienting, and fantastic. Audiences need to be upset sometimes.

She was great in Three Kings.

Apparently they raped some girl at UVA too.

Significant events in April 1970
Beatles Breakup
Midnight Cowboy wins Oscar
Apollo 13
US invades Cambodia

"I can't wait to eat that monkey"

Wow, I thought that Simpsons was just crap. It was an embarrassing rehash that made MAD Magazine look prolific.

I remember seeing Pulp Fiction in the theatre shortly after I graduated from high school. There was a definite and unusual delight in the face of everyone as we left. Groups of dudes were gushing over it. I don't remember being that excited at a movie before or since. Maybe Phantom Menace started that way, but by…

The Road to Wellville was a pretty hilarious movie about an unsung age of American history.

Rock and Roll Band, Boston

I still hear them on the radio and in bars way too often. I want to live in your ivory tower. Down here in the shit we are still slogging through Evanescence and Creed anywhere they have sports on TV.

If you put 5 dollars in a juke box and play all Nickelback songs and don't have the revelation that they all have the same murky blandness, and subject everyone around you to 40 minutes of beige-rock induced anxiety, you are 86ed. Forever.

So by this logic Parker Lewis Can't Lose is the foundation for all modern television comedy. Nothing against Stella, but who was really watching it?