Also really missed is the Qui Gon/Maul fight on Tatooine. It’s short, but awesome.

In a lot of bigger cities, they simply won’t do this.

Was pretty curious about the stat that apparently 57% of people go out to eat for their Christmas meal. Clicking on the link, it immediately shows that this article is mis-representing the data. The quote is:

I’m like you- I get a fresh towel once a week, unless something happened to it requiring an early wash. But in your guest’s defense, they might have just been raised using a new towel every day (my brother’s in-laws are like this), and they might have just assumed that everyone was like them.

Yes, Avatar had great special effects- but do not discount it as just that. It wasn’t the effects, it was the world. Creating a world like Pandora was a creative achievement, that people loved. There have been lots of movies with great special effects that did not create near as wonderful of a world that Avatar did.

There’s somewhere I go for work travel that has a Papa Murpheys, and I stay in an extended stay hotel, so I always get excited thinking I can get one, but then I remember the hotel only has a range, not an oven.

The Trader Joe’s ones are very disappointing.

Do people not already know this? Food delivery is the biggest ripoff in the modern economy. It deserves all the ire we give to printer ink.

I agree. But body cam footage is controlled by the cops, and rarely do we get it released unedited and in a timely manner.

Live streaming does nothing that sending a text while waiting for the officer to walk up to the car couldn’t do.

So I agree Christmas decorations shouldn’t be political (Halloween just happened, and tons of good opportunities for political decorations there), and I’m not saying you couldn’t go “over the top” with your religious decorations, but I actually love when holiday decorations are religious- I have a neighbor with a big…

And sure, if you are buying new lights it’s probably more “green” to buy LED lights, but there is no way you should throw away functional lights to replace them with LED.

Sadly, the Maple Syrup Heists weren’t people going to the reserve and stealing Maple Syrup, it was people delivering less Maple Syrup to the reserves than they were being paid for.

Ant Man is perhaps my favorite Marvel series just because I like that it’s funny, and not just tacked on jokes, but really it’s focused on being a comedy.

Advertising is a grift now? Do you feel the same way about people who make ads that go on TV or magazines?

If I told you back in the 90's that someone could make a living in advertising, would you believe it? Because all “influencers” are, is advertisers. And it’s not every very different from traditional advertising. Company pays you to take really good photos of their food, write a blurb about how good it is, and publish…

What makes you sure the sales person in the final story was a man?

It also could have been solved by bringing his spare key.

Does he not have two keys? Wouldn’t that have fixed this?

Do most people not go for a walk with whoever you ate dinner with after dinner? I don’t want to eat and then just sit at the table for another hour or so. After we eat a nice meal, everyone at our table goes walking around the area, and maybe hopping into a bar or two while we’re at it.