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Brian Anderson
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Me to brother: "Very few hackers actually look like Angelina Jolie." Him: "Very few *people* look like Angelina Jolie."
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What can I do to help you become the person you want to be? Profile pic taken in Québec City. Banner pic taken at Alfred University. he/him
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Brian Anderson
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Me to brother: "Very few hackers actually look like Angelina Jolie." Him: "Very few *people* look like Angelina Jolie."
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Brian Anderson
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As I point out, in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, Democrats won voters with an income less than $50,000. Trump doesn't appeal to the working class, just the minority of it that are white males.
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Brian Anderson
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I went to Paris in 2003, at the height of the Freedom Fries era, and people were fine. Being polite and trying to speak French went a long way.
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Brian Anderson
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I suspect post-war West specifically downplayed the role of the French Resistance since many of the high-profile members were communists.
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Brian Anderson
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"Somehow the neighborhood Lawson isn't even sketchy in the middle of the night."
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Brian Anderson
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*"Alice's Restaurant" begins playing in the background*
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Brian Anderson
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I saw someone make the argument that Star Wars wasn't an immediate hit, and I thought, Well, it didn't have the big opening weekend like modern movies because it was rolled out to theaters, like many movies at the time. But as soon as it hit, it rolled out quickly.
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Brian Anderson
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There was a stretch of about a hundred years in the 15th and 16th centuries where no Scottish king died of natural causes. Killed in battle, assassinated... One was next to a newly developed cannon when it exploded.
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Brian Anderson
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Dollhouse had a murderer's row of supporting actors, though.
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Brian Anderson
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A dinner companion (when we were on a day trip to see ALW's version of Sunset Blvd.) said he always writes half a musical, then repeats it in the second half.
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Brian Anderson
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It's even closer to Jodirowsky's L'Incal (also with art by Mœbius), the last couple of volumes of which are even named "La cinquième essence."
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One of the shocks of my adult life was learning that Murray Head was attempting an American accent in that song.
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If you went to any small to medium-sized liberal arts college in the Northeast, you probably recognize the feel and personalities from your own experience.
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Brian Anderson
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There's a lot of problems there, the Soros-branded antisemitism (or "cultural Marxism" or whatever you call a supposed secret minority controlling everything which by a staggering coincidence always seems to be heavily Jewish) being another issue but one that's sadly widespread.
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Before reading the alt text, I briefly wondered who these people on the set of "You Can't Do That on Television" were.
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Squash squash: the least popular kids' drink.
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Brian Anderson
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I like how the assumption is that left-leaning art is more popular *despite* it being leftist. Rather than realize the majority means that way, he decides it's because they've tapped into some cheat code of aesthetics. I'd like to learn more about Shandra at Bowdoin. Seems like my kind of people.
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A lot of the production work was done by Jeff Barry, who co-wrote "Sugar, Sugar" with Canadian singer Andy Kim (later of "Rock Me Gently" fame).
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I am perhaps the only person who prefers the theatrical version of the LOTR movies (most strongly Fellowship) because of the pacing.
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Je vous remercie!
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And then all the more so when they automatically switch to English. I took it as a triumph the first time that I said "Bonjour" to someone in Quebec, and they kept the conversation in French.
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I love that they did use Conroy both for the Batman musical and old Bruce Wayne hating it. youtu.be/CDtFjg8_PWg
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They dropped all of Star Trek Prodigy S2 on Netflix the other day. 20 new episodes of Star Trek. Yes, it's a kids' cartoon. If you can get past the first 5 episodes of the 1st season it's also good Star Trek. Some Star Trek series took a lot longer than 5 episodes to find their footing.
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From what I've seen, even the non-indigenous parts felt an awful lot like someone who has a shallow stereotype of American culture and has not cared to develop their understanding or story with greater depth.
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A few reviews indicate that some Americans at the time heard it as a riff on the Beach Boys: "Fun fun fun on the Autobahn."
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The first time I tried to watch MNT, it was not long after my mom had died and I couldn't watch that. I had to take a break and come back to it later.
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Even if inspired by that, if they didn't spell it out, it's probably for a reason: from a child's standpoint, the fright of a mother in trouble is the important thing, regardless of why.
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A while back it occurred to me why all the anime tropes of missing or distant fathers would have developed in post-war Japan.
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Brian Anderson
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I did not expect to see a reference to bobalki in Rolling Stone.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
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I started noticing abuser tactics in politics a while ago. When someone uses a version of "Look what you made me do," that is a huge red flag. In any situation.
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Especially funny in a terribly designed airport designed to induce claustrophobia.
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When I wear a Boston Red Sox cap, people make some vague baseball related remarks to me. When I wear the cap of the Pittsburgh Pirates, a much less successful club, people expect me to know every detail of recent games.
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Luckily the specification for IP over Avian Carriers can be scaled for various species, although the QoS version notes that "Ostriches have much greater bulk transfer capability but provide slower delivery, and require the use of bridges between domains." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over...
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I also kind of miss painted movie posters.
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Brian Anderson
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Isn't there a Pratchett book that says Rincewind is skinny *because* he's so lazy and doesn't want to carry too much weight around?
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Waiting for Tau male.
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I definitely have an interest! Also I keep meaning to make it down some weekend and my schedule has been less than cooperative. I miss your faces!
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When someone thinks they couldn't be as affected by a B/W movie, I tell them to watch the 1930 version of All Quiet on the Western Front.
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You know, I've never seen it! Although it's certainly on the list. I was just thinking I could fill out a list just with Wilder.
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The knock on LDV is that it's episodic instead of having a through story, but the one where Marcello ends up wandering through nighttime Rome with Anita, who insists on finding milk for a kitten and then they end up wading in the fountain... That resonated.
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What's your favorite black and white movie? Too many to choose, and I've already seen lots I love posted but not this one.
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If you've already got cats and the Trevi Fountain, you're only one Anita Ekberg short of La Dolce Vita.
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Brian Anderson
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The other possibility is that the author has very, very long arms.
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This reminds me of when I found a specific edition of a book in a used bookstore, and one of the people I was with said "You could have just ordered that." Sure, but that defeats the point of rooting around in used bookstores.
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Nothing in recent history has shown that when the rubber meets the road they are actually against large government if they are in charge of it.
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Earlier today thinking about this, I said to a friend that I was going to say "Crazy that the least good looking one on The Good Place is..." And then couldn't decide which that would be, because they're ALL stunning.
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I went to college due south from Rochester and we considered it western New York. "Upstate" is much more nebulous and depends on who's saying it and who they're saying it to. Syracuse is central New York, not western. Albany is the Capital Area North of Albany is the North Country.
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The fact that Jason Mendoza is so hot and that's Manny Jacinto turning it down is really not fair to us normal-looking folks.
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