I don’t go back and rewatch old movies all that often, even my absolute favorites, but I’ve rewatched Red October numerous times. It’s so great.

Three old men in a trenchcoat!

“C...O...G...and we love spelling, don’t we folks? The vowels and the continents and the big, big words. And I know words, probably better than dictionaries. In fact, I had a dictionary doctor tell me once that they thought I should’ve become a dictionary since I knew such good word spelling. And I had a word come up…

Hey! You’re just an old man in a kid costume!

Am I the only one somewhat surprised that he knows what the word cognitive means?

a show of incredible mental acuity that doctors found both surprising and “unbelievable.”

Russia loses their entire oil production capacity in a Islamic terrorist bombing and then invades Europe in an attempt to neutralize NATO so they can then invade the Middle East and take all the oil.  You’ll be able to watch it live on CNN in a couple of years.

The Hunt For Red October......might be the last great Cold War thriller

Yeah that was fun times— here is this entry level position that you already need to have 3 years experience in... It's a logical inconsistency.

I’m almost the exact same age as Mac, so my god was he an icon to me when this came out.

Clancy Brown and Michael Ironside are national treasures, and I love that it seems like whatever role they take, they know exactly what to do with it and how to play it. 

If you stop to think about it for even a second, Home Alone stops being a family slapstick romp and turns into something much darker.

First rule of search and rescue, don’t make search and rescue come out for you too.

Those tweets remind me of this:

Counterpoint:

Larson’s best work:

I always think of this one when I walk through a spider’s web:

My wife is constantly annoyed when I tell her we’re low on dog fud (pronounced fudd) even though I’ve shown her the cat fud strip and it’s goddam hilarious.