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Oh wow! Jason was cast as a voice actor in the upcoming, animated show Invincible - a comic I loved. This is important news! Why am I just learning about this now?

Not a Simpsons clip, but . . .

As long as I don't forget there's a Rabbit showing tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. Also 9 p.m. tomorrow and 6 p.m. Sunday.

Yeah, we're going to need you to move to a corner of the basement. If you could spray for roaches while you're there, that would be greeeaaaat.

I thought that was the wolf boy from Twilight at first glance but he didn't look enough like an alpaca to be him. I'm also VERY stoned on migraine meds so....

I watched this movie with my 16 year old son and a few times while we were watching I referred to Chris Evans' phone as a "cellular" phone until my son finally asked why I kept calling it that. "It's the title of the movie," I said. He said he didn't realize it had anything to do with the phone and thought the cellular part was going to have something to do with her being a biology teacher. On a related note, KB says that people at work are going to notice that she isn't there so apparently she was dressed for work that morning. However, she's wearing fishnet stockings. What kind of science/biology teacher wears fishnet stockings to work? What kind of school does she work at?

This is my number one movie on the list and I enjoyed the episode as usual but I did have an issue . And I do not want to come across as an Amy hater as I have been a fan since the first episode of the Canon and there is just way too much of it floating around, especially in the Facebook group. So Amy, you are awesome! In this episode( and it is definitely due to me loving the story and dialogue of this movie above most any other) I really found it boring when alternative takes were offered of scenes and characters. The whole point is that Gloria has internalized the way that the world(and Gilles) sees her and has treated her(terribly) and that is the basis of the story. "There's nothing tragic about being 50, not unless you try to be 25." And if we point it out that she should be celebrated instead, yes indeed do that absolutely. But the discussion of every scene with Gloria kind of came back to that point with alternative scenarios being offered. That's not really criticism in my book and I was just kind of bored by it. Same with the discussion of the characterization of Gilles. This is a bit unfair, but I just love the "text" of this movie so much that I wish it had been appreciated a bit more in the discussion. We should tear down our idols for sure and examine the wreckage, but there was so much greatness in this movie(especially about the idea of movies and culture) that was largely left un-examined that I was perhaps a bit let down. One of my favorite exchanges of all time: Betty Schaefer : Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. Gillis, but I just didn't think it was any good. I found it flat and trite. Joe Gillis : Exactly what kind of material do you recommend? James Joyce? Dostoyevsky? Betty Schaefer : I just think that pictures should say a little something. Joe Gillis : Oh, one of the message kids. Just a story won't do. You'd have turned down Gone With the Wind. Sheldrake : No, that was me. I said, "Who wants to see a Civil War picture?" But these are two people I love hearing talk about movies and will be interested to hear their takes on 2018! Keep up the great work! and Thank you!

Since I haven't been able to rewatch Sunset yet, I want to at least back up Amy on What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? because it's great. Joan Crawford and Bette Davis have monumental performances. Alicia Malone is also the best TCM now. She hosted a great series on TCM late last year about early female directors that was really eye opening for me.

i absolutely lost my shit and i will not ever get it back haiku aside, wanna shoutout to da boys for releasing the first ever ep that my gf has wanted to keep listening to. monumental.

I have two bookcases jam packed divided on fiction and non-fiction because I have so many while the rest live in piles around the house . And I continue to being more home every time I work a library booksale. I am Marie Kondo's nightmare

https://www.treehugger.com/cleaning-organizing/case-rapturous-decluttering-dont-throw-your-books-away.html

That daft boozer!

There ain't no party like an opioid party 'cuz an opioid party ends in crippling addiction.

My biggest takeaway from this movie is how hilariously ineffectual the husband is in this movie. Usually in a movie like this its the husband who would be expected to save his family from the kidnappers. This movie decided to buck that trend and have some random "teenager" save the day. So he basically does less to save his family from the mess he put his family in than his wife, who actively saves her husband and son multiple times. Its even more funny to me because the actor playing the husband routinely plays scumbags in other roles so when he showed up I kept waiting for the twist where he was secretly involved all along.

It was easier to vow never to move again than give up my video game collection.

Yea that's true. There's just become a block in my head that all docs are propaganda - I need to get over that tbh, there's a lot I should be interested in and am curious about.

Yeah, there was this rush of documentaries in the early 2000s that just grabbed people and people just think that's what documentaries are or should be. It bums me out because great documentaries don't have much bias (or as little as can reasonably expected from people editing down years of footage to a couple hours). There's a world of difference between what Michael Moore or Dinesh D'Souza does and someone like Erroll Morris or the Maysles. Where would documentaries be if, instead of Enron Smartest Guys In The Room and Fahrenheit 9/11 getting audiences, Capturing The Friedmans or Hoop Dreams did?

I think one of the problems is with looking at documentaries as "news reporting." They are not. They're just not fictionalized, which sets them apart from the usual narrative films you see; they are, however, assembled footage of real life events intended to point you towards whatever artistic message the filmmakers want to deliver. There should be no expectation of "covering everything" or being "unbiased." My issue with RBG is that I don't feel like it was all that focused a take on its subject. Won't You Be My Neighbor? definitely was, IMO. Your mileage may vary, of course.

They're finally finishing the renovation in our department this summer so for the fall semester we're moving buildings and I have to shift into an office half the size. When they first told us the furniture we were allowed to have, they said that we could have one (1) six foot bookcase, and one (1) two foot bookcase, totalling ten shelves. That MIGHT cover SOME of my Shakespeare. Maybe. I have no idea how I'll cope having to only take a third of my books. Maybe just piled up on the floor?

This is my actual dream.

The one thing that confused me was what exactly tipped off Ricky Martin Sr. that the cops were now suddenly after him and his family? Given that he had the tape in a safety deposit box, the recording had to have happened days before. The fact that he calls to warn his wife suggests he now knows there is an imminent threat, but it’s never made clear how he knows that. And thinking about that call he makes to his wife, why exactly is he calling the house? Shouldn’t she already be at school teaching her science biology class by the time he calls her?

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Goddammit I love Martin Sheffield Lickly!

I think it all took place during a government shutdown

Call me old fashion but thats my legal name now