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Movies / Re: Movies

« on: May 17, 2024, 06:11:21 PM »

Many reviews were blisteringly bad. Peter Bradshaw for The Guardian called it megabloated and megaboring. Tim Grierson for Screen Daily called it a disaster stymied by arbitrary plotting and numbing excess. Kevin Maher for the Times of London wrote that its a head-wrecking abomination. Critic Jessica Kiang said Megalopolis is a folly of such gargantuan proportions it is like observing the actual fall of Rome.
   

Now I am interested.

https://apnews.com/article/megalopolis-cannes-francis-ford-coppola-d965352b9f0f5d78d6c470beb801f6f8

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Movies / Re: Movies

« on: May 17, 2024, 06:07:25 PM »

Odd how little I recall of the film.  Bass-Fender was in every war movie I saw in that general time period.  I havent much liked Tarantino post Jackie Brown.  Hipster film buff jacking off - describes him well.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 17, 2024, 02:02:33 PM »

I do not fit your pigeonhole so all you have left are insults.
Have at it.

Oooh! This will be fun!  May I suggest some handy phrases from The Argument Clinic sketch?

Dont give me that, you snotty-faced heap of parrot droppings!

Shut your festering gob, you tit! Your type makes me puke!

You vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous pervert!
 

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 17, 2024, 01:56:02 PM »

destroying the very fabric of American society.

Congratulations!  You are the winner of the Most Threadbare and Tired Cliche of the Year at Elba Award! 

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 17, 2024, 01:52:28 PM »

He is fat and his name is Albert. And I first called him that after the Bodega affair.
As did many others.

Alvin.  Not Albert. 

Funny how quick you are to loftily lament name-calling by other  members here and yet so proud of yourself when you do it.

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 17, 2024, 01:43:22 PM »

And anyone who is not the reigning monarch of Straw Man sophistry would acknowledge you are not saying anyone is a good guy in this three-quarter-century goatfuck.  Red loves to waste peoples time.

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 17, 2024, 01:40:29 PM »

I am not arguing anyone is a good guy. Not after 76 years of eye for eye. I am saying the UN ignoring the right to self-determination for the Palestinians has created an untenable situation.  And Israelis are about as far from blameless as the Palestinians are.

And my sympathies are with the Palestinians, not Hamas. I just do not think that removing them from the playing field would result in a just solution,  but rather one where the just grievances of the Palestinians continue to be ignored. Those grievances will rise again, and violently, if they continue to be ignored. If people are not heard in a political way, they find another way. It is what happens to a dream deferred.

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 16, 2024, 09:08:47 PM »

Going back in time to strangle Gavrillo Princip in his crib. Which is more workable than yours.

I think we should prevent Beauregard from spoiling that picnic in Virginia.  So many sandwiches wasted! 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 16, 2024, 09:04:56 PM »

Quod erat demonstrandum

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 15, 2024, 07:37:58 PM »

Joe Biden gave a 14 second MAKE MY DAY debate challenge to Trump.
It was edited 4 times.

Cut down to length?

Does it even matter?  We voted for a guy who has had verbal glitches his entire 5 decade political career, a guy who won because his strengths and skills lie elsewhere.  Partisans feed on this blooper irrelevance because their party has so little to offer the 21st century in terms of innovative policy and problem-solving. 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 15, 2024, 01:38:53 PM »

Pillow talk in GOP marriages can get heated.

https://apnews.com/article/arizona-abortion-ban-clint-shawnna-bolick-c69f0af6b0eeea11e4bcdc21cb7c908f

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: May 15, 2024, 08:56:01 AM »

That will be tricky.

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 15, 2024, 08:44:38 AM »

Speaking of dementia

Indeed

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Poetry / Re: Poetry

« on: May 15, 2024, 08:41:34 AM »

A Depeche Mode robs boredom, eh, Cepeda?

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: May 14, 2024, 11:31:48 AM »

Was thinking about RFK Jr. and his now public misadventure with a parasitic brain worm, which somehow intersected with a mention of Shakespeares Henry trilogy over in Movies.  Then in a bizarre bit of synchronicity I watch an episode of Evil in which David, the Catholic seminary student, quotes from Shakespeare and it is Prince Hal s famous battlefield eulogy of Hotspur in Henry IV pt 1

For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart.
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough

Ok, carry on.

Or carrion.