About the Hillary logo and the use of logos to make a campaign a social movement ( Read more... )

It just came to me.

What if it was Hillary's mysterious fainting spell and concussion, rising again on the third day?!?

That might explain her oddly out of touch expressions, like a robot - or a demon - learning to be human. Her strange, cackling laugh.

What if I've been wrong all along?

(Problem is, it doesn't make a good story. Ah well.)

"Delta-9-THC = 12 ng/ml in blood ( Read more... )

Check-in girl: "What movie would you like to see today?"

Customer: "Do you have the movie where Tom Cruise dies over and over again in more and more painful ways and it's even more hilarious each time?"

Girl: "Yes we do, it's called Edge of Tomorrow. Would you like to see that in our IMAX theater?"

Customer: "Would I ever!""

Previous Ebola outbreaks had 70-80% lethality. They killed so fast that everyone in the distant, bushmeat-eating (monkeys, apes) little village who was exposed died before they could move to another area ( Read more... )

As expected, the new Equestria Girls movie again proves that the finest musical theater today is to be found in children's cartoons ( Read more... )

This is a mild essay that has been burbling a long time, and was brought to the fore (again) with the recent Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Specifically the scene where Drax the Destroyer, a generic brick type tank, has an extended fight with the main villain of the piece. It should not really be a surprise or a spoiler for me to say that in the ( Read more... )

Spoiler alert, etc ( Read more... )

I live on the border between a gentrified community and a community where, shall we say, it is common to speak back to the movie screen. Thankfully, I have an excellent theater within five minute's drive that serves both these communities ( Read more... )

You're still friends, you still keep in touch, but life has taken you in different directions. You only meet once every year or two, say, when they're in town for a convention or when you're in their town for a work trip. You hear about their new work and events in their life, yes, and also you see the things again that you've always known about ( Read more... )