That we don't get 22 episode seasons anymore means we'll never get to see this happen with Reacher

god it was killing me where I'd seen that pose before

The fun thing to remember is that every Republican standard-bearer gets this level of perverse, cult-like reverence from the religious right, even if only for a campaign season. Dubya did. McCain did. Romney did. It's worse with Trump because he actively encourages it. Because he's weak and vain.

The press collectively decided that loud, angry, reflexively misogynist and utterly incoherent aren't signs of dementia but mumbling is. Because what really mattered was whether they got Content.

Zelenskyy successfully played the credible threat of drones hitting Red Square against the vanity of both Trump and Putin. Trump gets a headline, Putin gets a parade, Ukraine gets soldiers home.

this is the Jair Bolsonaro of cars

High of 48 in the second week of May

This is Everybody's 12 Theory again. I recognize this, it's me. I was 12. I got a Strat. I just discovered Zeppelin. I hated boy bands and thought there was a Bush-led conspiracy to suppress grunge. Then J-Lo and Shakira started making music videos...

Since Project Freedom (jerk off motion) is apparently back on

What a life of Poasting has taught me. Greatest minds, madness etc

Not to be a stickler but the Civil Rights movement was Reconstruction 2. So we need to start thinking in trilogies.

ngl I really want a rotisserie chicken and some fresh bread now

As President I promise to end the Florida-zation of our water

Having just seen it from the airplane window, I can confirm that the new blue-painted part of the National Mall reflecting pool looks tacky as shit from up here too

"They investigated me for months - FOUND NOTHING" "NO FUN - NOT WORTH IT"

Nothing about The Odyssey is meant to be authentic. It's a mythic tale about a dead civilization that Homer filled with anachronisms of his own. Maintaining my theory that Nolan's twist will be the story is being told around an irradiated campfire after WW3.

Most folks going with some joke about Rick & Morty but really it would begin with firing and probably deporting Tartakovsky the second he pitched Powerpuff Girls.

RIP Ted Turner. There was never a better cable channel than Peak TNT with its perfect balance of NBA basketball, Godzilla movies and anti-McMahon wrestling. A cosmic gumbo we briefly saw again in the Biden years before Zaslav fumbled it.

We wasted a bunch more interceptors for one day of Prime Chance cosplay, got a bunch of stranded crews' hopes up and now on the biggest Taco Tuesday of the year here we are. Happy Cinco.

well now

it's only tuesday

Something morbidly funny about a Kennedy working so hard to get a critical mass of people off their meds as his 37% boss attracts Oswald types at the pace of Pacific Rim kaiju events.

Honestly it especially feels like defiance when the regime is gutting PBS, stamping Trump's name on the Kennedy Center, erasing civil rights history from museums and dipping every national symbol it can in Temu-ass filagree.

"in a galaxy that demands strength"

May the 4th be with you.

Landing at Point Rain hits so hard. Starship Troopers by way of The Longest Day (ending with an homage to that insane Ouistreham crane shot) and it's all an explicit dunk on the Iraq War and body count counterinsurgency.

damn they got to him

ANAKIN: Master, I'm afraid for someone I love. They may die. What should I do? YODA:

This system works so well that this is the only man in the galaxy who has definitely had sex with a droid.

Thinking about how George Lucas decided calling them stormtroopers was too subtle so for the sequel he gave them Klan hoods and most people still didn't notice.

I used to think it was just nerd movies that were gonna fade because of the fans but now I'm convinced we're never actually getting a monoculture again. This is the most Normal show to be a big cultural hit since Ally McBeal and it just means a larger pool of social media psychos to ruin your life.

The Rudy obit prewrites

magnets

I hope we hear good news soon

Twins pitcher out in the first after the Jays destroyed Minnesota's bullpen yesterday

Look yes I think this is sacrilege and sounds awful but I suspect Orwell would be tickled that Serkis conned Angel Studios into buying the distribution rights of this turkey.

And I keep coming back to this but everything getting culture warred through DC's prism has made it a geographic focal point for political violence of every stripe. January 6, the Guard shootings, ICE raids, the WHCA gunman all catching 700,000 people with no representation in the literal crossfire.

♫ ...but his bosses didn't like him so they shot him into spaaace ♫

God this is funny. When's Tim from Michigan gonna call in

Okay gonna admit I got halfway through this thinking of Falling Down that's on me.

Thinking again how Shapiro tried to break into Hollywood with a slew of fairly well-polished lib-owning action movies but his audience complained they were all too woke for starring women.* Failed artist continues to be one of the shorter paths on the flowchart.

This is despicable and obvious appeasement by Trump to Putin after their call this week but I'm just gonna note that in the time it'll take these 5,000 troops to leave Germany at current trends Russia will have conservatively taken another 200,000 dead and wounded in Ukraine.

Temps in the 30s today, so... general mood:

Russian Air Force 🤝 US Air Force Parking Rare & Expensive Aircraft on Open Tarmac as Drone Food.

I kinda view this as practice. Maneuvers, wargames whatever. You want some organization in place when something more critical is happening.

I love little things in movies that remind me nostalgia is bullshit. Charles Bronson in Death Wish 3 just unlocked his car with a key.