Update: It wasn't Streetcar, it was Truckline Café, a couple of years earlier. Kael tells the story in her review of Last Tango in Paris.

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reminiscent of Pauline Kael wondering if young Brando in Streetcar was having a seizure in front of her.

I can't watch another nanosecond of Mark DeRosa outlining the correct placement of the femur as the batter drives the bat through the strike zone.

None of this administration's activities are being conducted in ways that historians can track.

Rickey twice ❤️

Good to know Trump recognizes an upper bound here of.... *checks notes* 6 years, 4 months....

I suspect that your method is correct for you. My term papers were long ago but ... you can't really substitute for lengthy engagement with the subject matter. I edit NF books and they are responsive to their subjects in a deep way. It might be easier to impose a template on a book than an article.

Absolutely. I might go a step further and suggest that Simpsons scripts adhere to about five different plots and you just need to call up the Word document that has those beats in place for you. You don’t even need the elf!

Maybe not "everything," which you emphasized. That includes structure which he doesn't really say as much, at least based on my skim. The example given of intentionally bad dialogue for Homer communicates the principle of we'll-change-this-later—it's his entire point. So I venture that it's implied.

I think this is implied. The real rub is that Simpsons scripts had prior completed work that could be looked on with pride and also set a standard for future work, and the first draft could reliably be improved by a team of writers paid for the purpose.

I was in Copenhagen about a year ago and mistakenly boarded a suburban train rather than the airport express I took it for. Within 25 minutes I was far afield with no way to make my flight. That little error cost me about $1000. But yeah you know, I barely look at departure times anymore.

With reference to Mr. Ball there, I am an early type and I have missed flights before and missing them does not magically transform me into a chill, late-arriving type.

Touching the red-hot oven does not make me into a chill, oven-touching type either. Not really sure why he says this.

Oh yes. And there's some handsome dude who wants to do a feature magazine article about them?

I only really remember two things about it, Bisset plays a Rolling Stone reporter, is that right? And it's not very credible?

And there's a memorable shot of a woman standing in the snow outside of a cabin? Is that Bergen? That might be at the very end.

Oh yeah, and the Mile high club.

It's quite a movie.

wut

Every extra-inning game I watch increases my (fairly recently adopted) conviction that the free runner on second base is better than the alternative and possibly actively good. In regular-season games only, of course.

Once you get as far as accepting the premise, the advantages become obvious.

On SNY, Ron Darling just quoted a filthy Richard Pryor routine with no acknowledgment that anything untoward was happening. Good for him.

oh, what a good connection! Yes.

Dolchstoss

(I see that you referenced that.)

Nicely done. Gen X never got any political power here. It's a small cohort and we never will have that power. In context of other remarks I've made, maybe that's a good thing. It's still depressing. We've never had a president that was younger than a boomer. We had three presidents born in 1946!!

Yes, I was living in Europe when I think Time magazine plastered it all over the cover, I read it.

All of the early 'Gen Xers' were older than Gen X/late Boomers. Richard Linklater, Quentin Tarantino.

Sure, but in the American context, the Gen Xers have been depressingly susceptible to Trump's bullshit. So maybe it's a five point difference like if the surrounding cohorts vote for him at 45% or whatever Gen X is at 50%. There's some pattern there.

GenX was originally an American term (arguably Canadian) coined to describe an American generation. I unfortunately have a slightly Pavlovian reaction to it. It simply never occurred to me that it traveled. My apologies.

Book cover for The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley

The Go-Between by L.P. Hartley
#recentbook

A clever, insightful tale about childhood, class, and forbidden love in turn-of-the-century England. Just regarded as a classic.

Yes, I understood this to be about the US. I'm not generalizing to any other country. My mistake.

At the same time, the ripeness of boomers and Gen X to be picked clean by Rupert Murdoch's media empire is chiming in both countries.

There are plenty of exceptions! I'm also not like that, but it was the tenor of that generation.

GenX always had shallow political commitments. "Ha ha, both sides are phoney!" would have been typical. Is Jesse from Reality Bites a Democrat? Barely.

I'm GenX, born in 1970. If you have such a thin understanding of politics, that makes you ripe for demagogues who have honed their techniques.

His voters are the ones who will suffer because we are never ever ever ever going to stop litigating this fucking guy. They voted for this asshole and they're responsible for this.