The memo specifically calls for the end or reduction of pro-diversity hiring policies and certain diversity training programs within the company.

Yeah, if I sent a ten-page memo around with my personal views on the company's diversity policies, I'd definitely get shitcanned. And I'm probably much less quickly-replaceable and work for a company where it wouldn't make the news.

No worries. Thanks for being chill about it.

"Voices of the Old People" would sweep the Academy, though.

The Room's sex scenes weren't written; Tommy just punctured his internal ink sac and filtered it through a series of crocus flowers, and the sex scenes were divined from the patterns that emerged.

I didn't really care for it, but I loved Seven Psychopaths so much that I wanna go back and double-check to see if I was wrong.

It's much harder to have longer, off-topic conversations, and really in-depth back-and-forths are almost unreadable.

Man, now I'm actually morbidly intrigued.

In Cline's defense, he might not realize that he is a child.

It was okay, but more concerned with being clever than with saying anything or telling a coherent story, and seems to have mistaken complexity for depth. However, I admire Carruth's effort and respect his work ethic and ambition a lot.

"Haha, sweet 80's reference! Say, you wouldn't happen to be a geek girl, by any chance?"
—Ernest Cline

I just want to say that I really like your use of the term "actual book."

Hey, "knowing the words to every Monty Python" routine is a skill. Apparently.

There's lots of books that are fun, not The Brothers Karamazov, and better than this.

It's not, it's just verboten to do so by shouting Nazi catchphrases in public while employed by a major media company.

And then bragging about it, which got his ass beaten by Jon Lovitz.

Our prediction that NK has missiles that could hit the US, can do so accurately, and can fit a payload on those missiles that would successfully detonate is based on everything going right for them and everything going wrong for us. Which is sober and practical as far as estimates go. But it's likely that Guam is, in…

…You just say bingo.

Oh, it's a totally great action film— but Face/Off is a continuous funhouse rise of lunacy and poetry, complete with, essentially, two Nicolas Cages.

Interestingly enough, I've been listening to Destroyer's Rubies a whole bunch.