And maybe that is a very different story from the original. My expert friend I attended with thought it was different.
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And maybe that is a very different story from the original. My expert friend I attended with thought it was different.
I think the second movie switched to her POV in the latter part of the film, and her growing alarm at who he had become or was revealed to have always been. I read the last scene as her understanding what he was doing, and the betrayal was that the change or reveal was complete. He chose power.
As someone who saw the two recent movies and hasn't read any of the novels, A) it seemed clear in the movie that this was political strategy, and B) there is a vast reservoir of fans of the novels who seem to be available at all times to offer context, and I appreciate them as an indexed resource.
Sesame Street is absolutely a cultural engine for introducing kids to media produced and stars who peaked 5-60 years before the viewers were born. Sadly, this means that while Elvis Costello may survive a generation longer in memory, Elvis Stojko, age 53, has been permanently lost for 25 years.
Yeah, I'm just finding out it's not a special flower from my sleep paralysis demon to me; it hands out this bouquet all over town!
But Marilyn Monroe and James Dean returned as cultural icons (arguably as exploited IP with no ability to decline to participate) decades after their deaths, while Elizabeth Taylor's image has coasted to a more natural sunset. I don't think new posters of her photos in her 20s are being printed.
What movie is this?
The AppleTV reboot of Judas Iscariot reimagines him in an Ontario lake fishing town high school.
There has to be some explanation for this scenario in recurring dreams. I have never actually taken a break from the wheel to pop into the back seat for a break, and yet.
The vacuum cleaner manufacturer, not the U.S. President
A new-to-me MRMR FUNGI!
There is some extraordinary ad placement in the Tennesseean today.
This is similar to the crank claim with a germ of truth that 20th century America "invented" adolescence and the concept of teenagers. There may have been a new cultural framing, but puberty was not invented in the 1920s, nor the ancient category of "youth" between childhood and maturity.
A false covenant
Going to post a photo of Bradley Whitford standing between me and the exit to the bus
Commissioning opposition research when one is not famous enough to go on Finding Your Roots
Am I the only one who got kind of a St Valentines Massacre vibe at :33 when they lined up the groundbreakers and set off a rat-a-tat of fireworks behind them?
youtu.be/pNjwqZT8NIE?...
On January 20, 2025 I said that things would become worse than we could possibly imagine. I hate being right.
This is one kind of writing that *could* be unnoticeably replaced by LLM slop without a drop in quality.
The shampoo to induce acute onset male pattern baldness
And the two who were actually educators had to work far more than twice as hard and had to be far more than twice as smart to make it up there with a college dropout whose big break was complaining about how woke and liberal his highschool economics textbook was and discouraged college attendance.
C except for towels, which are B
Arguably Evanston has a seething, barely-unspoken hostility to its major university, seeing it as a permanent property tax problem and seeking to strongarm it into paying up. The university and the town mutually view one another as parasitic and extractive, but they can't divorce.
Being terrified of Stalin if one is close to him is also the appropriate mindset.
He's like the fitness "content creators" who are just blogging content from 1950s-90s diet and exercise books. He reposts late 18th - early 20th century theory from the golden age of scientific racism.
He is clearly a counterpart to Lake Zurich "ok" punching kid. Non-nazi non-looksmaxxing youts are rising to occasions.
Me: ITS NOT FRENCH ITS GRUYERE
ICE: (tackling)
ONE FREE MURDER, EACH
Unclear if this headline is a threat or a promise
There is always, always, always a market for the pitch, "kids these days are spoiled brats, and their parents are weak for not cracking down hard."
