To be fair, Urban played the role so well from having studied Kelly's portrayal deeply. Which goes to prove the old adage: Deforestation leads to Urbanization

shirts, questions raised and answered, things of that nature

Look, the answer is almost seriously practically never to blame the victim, however...

This is about the most "play stupid games, win stupid prizes" thing ever.

It finally happened. The kids asked me a question for which the answer was... private equity.

The potential for recency bias aside, I think Mother Mary might be my new favorite movie of the year.

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GO SEE MOTHER MARY GO SEE MOTHER MARY GO SEE MOTHER MARY GO SEE MOTHER MARY GO SEE MOTHER MARY

It's me again... I have a new job, & so does the roommate, but we're not getting paid yet. (My new quizmaster gig only pays once a month, on the 15th!) I am out of money, and yet the children keep needing to eat & the car keeps needing gas. Thank you... Venmo.com/Halaylah Cash.app/$Halaylah

Evening Update: Thank you for helping me get out out immediate danger of eviction, but I'm not out of the woods yet; I need raise the remaining $1090 to pay the rest of April's rent quickly. I'd love to get this done by Monday so I can have some breathing room. #MutualAidRequest

Ham Barbecue. Just nasty stuff, and it used to be a family get-together staple. SW Pennsylvania trying to claim ketchup and lunch meat as their BBQ style.

Good evening y'all! My internet is still out (going on 39.5 hours now) so I'm still relying on my phone. In the meantime, please keep share my info around, I really need this $1600 asap. #MutualAidRequest

I have a short story idea that is decidedly soft science fiction and I am getting hung up on details that are definitely hard science fiction. I need to murder the "well, actually" guy living in my head.

Finally got around to watching my 4k Blu-ray of The Prestige, and I'm not sure how, but all* of the fake mustaches look better in 4k. Seems like it should be the opposite. *with one exception

Take the wrong lesson from a movie: The Prestige: The only way to get ahead in life is to kill yourself every day at work.

For all the valid families this seems to exclude, I'm stuck thinking that the Barbarian household is probably being affirmed here.

I've been doing a slow and steady MCU watch with my kids and we are rapidly approaching the point where Disney+ TV shows start being a thing and I'm kind of conflicted about including them.

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I think that one of my favorite intersections of Hollywood and baseball, is that during baseball's steroid era, Wesley Snipes went from playing a Kenny Lofton analogue in 1989 to a Barry Bonds analogue in 1996.

Watching Major League for the first time in years and it is very cool that for this movie famously about the Cleveland Indians, the very first image you see is the inspiration for the Cleveland Guardians name change.

Challenge: Put a Star Trek actor into a minor role in your movie, and have me think about literally anything else during it's runtime. Result: Impossible.

Just tooling around on Letterboxd, as one does, after watching 3 Days of the Condor, and... did you know that Cliff Robertson's middle name was Parker? Whoa.

when donald trump dies, i want tornado sirens, amber alerts, incoming nuke warnings -- i want to be woken from my sleep and have my entire parasympathetic nervous system on high alert. i want to feel the way i did the first time i had a panera charged lemonade or og four loko. i want to be wired.

I sometimes wish I said about 30% of the things that I thought and people thought I was an asshole, rather than saying about .5% of the things I think, and having people think I'm an asshole anyway.

Weekly reminder.

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

If you are unwilling to give people good options to address the injustices of society, they will come up with their own... and they may not be particularly creative.

I suppose it's at least nice to know that I'm not alone in being driven mad by that Eric Byrnes commercial.

Happy #412Day everyone. It's not like we NEED a reason to celebrate #Pittsburgh, but I'll take every opportunity that I get. It's been amazing capturing the city for all of these years, and I look forward to many more!

Nothing like a rapist Democrat to demonstrate that the percentage of people in this country who aren't garbage is probably in the single digits.

Republicans in the PA State Legislature are apparently trying to push through a pause on the taxation of gun and ammo sales in the state. This seems like a pretty convoluted way to go about things when they could simply encourage their counterparts in the federal government to impeach the president.

Streaming international films in ways that I'm not strictly supposed to means that I somehow managed to FINALLY get around to watching Exit 8 at home on the day it premiered in theaters.

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*watching a 50's period piece* "Man, that actor looks so familiar, I'm positive I know him from something." "No, he just has one of those faces they put in 50's period pieces."

Really dig the Pirates new City Connect unis, and just to make sure I'm not too elated with the look... I kind of hate the hats.

Just further proof that AI has ruined the internet because when I search "[noted director in Asian cinema] AI quote" there are quite a few results which must be fake, I guess. I also completely hallucinated the movie No Other Choice.

"Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn! Tell us the lesson that we should learn! .... Moral #47 - If at first you don't succeed, blame it on the Romulans."

"Trump cannot [thing he has already done, and will clearly get away with]."

Every couple weeks or so I travel to the town where Trump got his boo-boo to run errands, and... actually I'm going to cut that anecdote off right there before I get myself in trouble.

I've been feeling kind of flat on the whole Artemis II thing, and it kind of bums me out. I think a key part of the magic of space program is that it makes you feel like nothing is impossible, and I can't seem to summon up the spirit to believe that much of anything is possible.

Okay, now get rid of him before it happens again.

Might just fuck around and call my parents to talk about the Cuban missile crisis...

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

... and I have finally watched enough 2026 movies (13) to knock The Bride out of my Top 10.

Was not expecting to fall asleep during the new Super Mario movie. Don't worry though, I was still awake for more than enough to know that it was pretty underwhelming.

“But there has to be a path to redemption for people like Louis CK..” Let me stop you right there: no there doesn’t. You made that up.

I redownloaded Board Game Arena because I noticed that a game that I never get to play as much as I want was on there, and... Is it a thing to let people win and make fun of them in the game chat? Maybe I misread that, but it would otherwise be pretty shitty.

Managed to finish a week off work with significantly less oomph than I had going into it. Vacations seem to work backwards these days... if they ever didn't.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.