What happens when Scarecrow gets wet?
What does it mean that the Russian spy agent/chief was reading Batman #189, the first Silver Age appearance of Scarecrow, during one of his key scenes in A Dandy in…
Tag: movies
Recall Voyager: We need a more American way to say Greetings.
“Hello? NASA? Anyone here?” “In the back. Behind the pallets of American Gulf Berry Energizer Drink. Are you gonna move those out?” “No. Why would we?” “I thought Trump was…
Tech Bros Will Save Us … Some of Us … A Few of Us … Maybe One of Us…
“King Elon is coming in, and he’s gonna clean up.” “Yes! There is no one better to lead us! Because he has understanding.” “That’s right! … Understanding of what?” “Understanding…
A Double Feature for our Times, aka In Quaid We Trust
Dennis Quaid is in Reagan and The Substance in the same year!
When you aren’t thinking, we win
The two-term conundrum in American politics.
From Cannery Row to Hollywood Star Lanes
From Cannery Row to The Big Lebowski
The Star Wars Name Blender
Jyn, Cassian, Baze Malbus, Bistan, Chirrut – just a few of the Rogue One characters, a blitz of names that reads like the fevered output of a Star Wars Galaxies random…
Dispatches – What Pootin Wants
We live in interesting political times, if interesting can be a euphemism for society weighed down by populations living in opaque bubbles, blind to their own braindead expositions: “These pretzels…
“I’m not politically correct…”
When did Republicans adopt the Ricky Bobby philosophy of discourse? Basically they proceed as if they can say whatever they want, so long as they preface with the proper qualifier….
Inherent Vice on film
I was gratified that PT Anderson decided to include the “dark crews” passage in the film version of Inherent Vice. However, I did regret the exclusion of the “1 percenter…