Okay, I’ll say that Scorsese should have been left out in favor of Gerwig. FOTKM is a big, overstuffed film that does only a fair job with it’s source material, while Barbie makes a generous meal out of the crumbs of a toy doll.

Heading to Jamaica in January isn’t a hard sell, royals or not.

Porter is such an interesting brew on its own. Why do brewers insist on layering in so many other flavors? Chocolate and coffee in moderation, okay, but peanut butter? Peppermint?

Well, if they give any attention to his end years, where he developed cancer but resisted modern medical care in favor of more holistic care, that might be a switch.

I was in there this weekend. My wine purchase was cleared, no questions asked, but the lady next to me had to show her ID. She was tickled. I suppose that yours could also have been borderline but the cashier was too damn busy to make you show ID. I’m amazed at how many people would rather wait in a long line than…

It would be interesting to see if this new show will have anything to say about the collateral civilian damage of the air campaign, or address Dresden in any way.

Clearly the scale of WWII makes for more story telling opportunities, but given the dilution of time seems like it would diminish its interest to modern generations. Hell, I just saw a stat about how younger age groups think that the Holocaust was exaggerated. Somehow it still seems like WWII remains a better story to…

I agree with the salsa choice. Hot sauce has too much of a vinegar bite for breakfast.

You may not have noticed the signal light switch from green to yellow. I’ve found that the cashier is regularly looking up, and clears the sale from her register very quickly if you’re clearly of age. 

There’s a huge range in self-scan systems. The new ones added to my local Aldi’s are great. They aren’t looking to weigh things post-scan, so I just scan and put things back in my cart. Liquor sales are easy, too. When I scan liquor, the light above the station starts flashing yellow. The nearby cashier looks up…

With the arrival of this show I’m again wondering about the depth of interest in tales of WWII fighting. While I understand that the stories of battles and brotherhood will always be interesting, it seems like WWII has an exceptional level of interest. It’s not more current that the conflicts in Vietnam or…

Don’t fret so much about it. Flying remains the safest way to fly.

Sure, the Academy does tend to reward financial success. That’s why it’s called show business. I do think that Titanic was better than Lady and the Tramp on a boat. Its genius was splicing an action movie into the middle of a standard tragic love story, something that’s been tried since with much less success. And the…

It’s just that five other directors received more.

Acting Oscars should not be given out for past performances. That’s what the Lifetime Achievement Oscar is for. People should win for the performance they’re nominated for.

It was also pointed out that many of those Tesla owners did not understand the basics of charging, i.e. conditioning the battery pack via warming. I don’t know what it’s going to take for EV owners to understand that they can’t simply treat an EV the same as an ICE.

I still daily the Merc Sable version of that wagon. It had just enough styling changes and interior upgrades over the Taurus to make it a nice ride with great utility.

these are generally a decent quality product that will can literally last for decades

It’s like the assertions that Trump shouldn’t be excluded from ballots, that he needs to be defeated at the ballot box. But how can you defeat someone at the ballot box that doesn’t even believe in the ballot box? Someone who insists that any loss is due to fraud?

I agree with you about Leo. While you could blame the script for making the Earnest character so uninteresting, it’s the actor’s job to find some depth there, and he didn’t. That final scene with Molly where Earnest couldn’t tell the last truth should have heartbreaking on his part, but it was only Lily that had any…