A surprisingly good movie. Like Sinners, or the current shows "Watson," or "The Residence," it's all teed up just to be DEI cardboard, but it escapes that and becomes something real.

So after the final battle one capstone is an attack on the Klan members. And then there is the coda after the credits, which I assume you saw too since you say there were too many "capstones" plural. That last scene, with 3 of the characters meeting probably 50 or 60 years later, for me took it out of "From Dusk to Dawn" territory and into Anne Rice land (though maybe more interesting and grittier).

I saw all the first week's episodes, and watched off and on over that summer, probably only when there wasn't a Yankees or Mets day game on TV. Glacial is the right word: it took a week of episodes to advance the plot a smidgen. In the fall of 1966 my school day was too late to watch. A few years later, when it had become popular, I tried to start up again. Then the show was a convolution of plot lines across multiple (maybe?) flashbacks, and I couldn't follow it. Only other soap I ever watched was "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", which was not fast-paced either. Good luck with your viewing project. I fantasize about doing the same with "The Simpsons".

Even back in 1979 I thought it was bad taste, and never wanted to see it. Never saw much written about it, and I don't recall anyone discussing it - odd since my circle talked a lot about Harvard and National Lampoon, and SNL back then. I'm suprized to learn it earned more than its budget - I always thought it flopped.

Order of Nine Angles making some news: "A high school student from Wisconsin killed his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, the FBI has said." "A newly unsealed search warrant also alleges that the suspect's phone contained material relating to a neo-Nazi group called the Order of Nine Angles and praise for Adolf Hitler." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62g8d47z86o

Please provide a similar list of those balancing out the partisanship of the above names.

The claim that NED is bipartisan is false. Trump ended that. The list of very partisan individuals associated with the organization includes board member Anne Applebaum, former NED president Carl Gershman, Robert Kagan, Larry Diamond, and board member Rachel Kleinfeld.

"Andrew for now the fifth time and almost word for word you repeat the same mealy-mouthed statement “NED did not fund GDI’s activities in the U.S.” This is a devious obfuscation of reality." Sorry the truth is so painful. Somebody who hides his name clearly cannot even accept the truth about himself.

The cast alone would get me into the theater. Greer was also great as a jealous werewolf in "Cursed," and as a drunken and horny straight woman who thought she was taking a walk on the wild side and being picked up by a lesbian couple when the mom and daughter team of Allison Janney and Anna Farris tried to keep her from driving and get her into AA on "Mom."

Beautiful essay. I was also a youngest child and had a prolonged bedridden illness while very young, so the movie always brings back memories. When I scanned the weekly printed TV listings (that came with the Sunday paper in the 70s and 80s), this is one of the movies I would always circle.

I watched the whole series and I saw something very different. First every show is about a gay issue, and one could ask if high school students, even in English classes, should always be invited to think about sex and sexuality in every class. As to discrimination, more than one episode involves super woke "radical" queer and trans students giving this unpierced, untattooed teacher grief for not paying attention to their ever-changing jargon and concerns as a CIS male gay. The show is much more about gay jokes and gay life than about teaching, with the constant on again off again ex-lover and the new love interest who he can't date because he too is a teacher.

Pete was 12 and Joe was 17. I'd imagine there were a number of places to fish in the Bronx in 1932, a lot of land still undeveloped. My grandfather got out of the market before the crash, so his family wasn't hit that hard.

No silver buttons, all down your back?

I never wear suits, only Philadelphia sports gear.

Didn't the French influence lead to the continuation of slavery? Jefferson's penchant for imported French wines put him in such debt that if he had emancipated his own 600+ slaves they would have been seized by creditors and sold back into slavery.

Yes. But I only got acid reflux.

Good one, but does that make you Nora Ephron?

I am trying to figure out which one of you is Lillian Hellman and which one is Mary McCarthy.

What an honest person would say about this is that Smith called me a commie, and that I responded to this slander with a suggestion that it was Smith himself who was arguing from the communist perspective, by which I meant that there's no tipping in communism. But you're not an honest person. You're a cheapshot artist.

You still want to make the argument that it was me who called Smith a commie, which only you give a shit about, for some weird, creepy reason. If I ever sink so low as to go through someone's Twitter, like a would-be canceler, I hope I know that this is a warning sign. Not you, though. You choose to spend your time this way, yet you say that interacting with me is "unproductive." Yeah, the way you do it is real unproductive. Once again, here's what Smith said to me before communism came into the conversation: "Get the hell outta my grill, commie weirdo!” You can write all the self-serving bullshit you want to on this topic, but that says everything that needs to be said.

And this sentence in Beck's article merits a further note: >>What he wrote, after his initial claim that I’d called Smith a “commie,” was that I had referred to Smith’s “commie perspective” in my conversation with the economist. << I made no "initial claim" that Beck called Smith a "commie." The "perspective" line is the only reference to the matter at all.

For clarity, I'd like to point out that Beck accused me of "spreading falsehoods" in his article, after repeatedly accusing me of "lying" in the comments on my prior article. >> ... When you made this false, silly accusation, even though I didn’t recall the details of that conversation with Noah, I knew you were lying because I don’t ever call people commies, unless it’s facetious. << https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/what-i-got-right-and-wrong#comment_29880 >> BTW, you lied about me calling Noah a commie after you’d already written a performative piece declaring you’d left Twitter, but then claimed you found an old “backup” Twitter account you used to stalk my Twitter. This is all pretty embarrassing, unprofessional stuff. << https://www.splicetoday.com/digital/what-i-got-right-and-wrong#comment_29882

I think Kenneth is afraid to respond.

Maybe he misread? https://youtu.be/OjYoNL4g5Vg?si=AOmzBBX7V-1Z1_t0

A loving/moving biography of Les Baxter: https://lesbaxter.com/pages/biography

This is great. please add a blusky link one of these days.

Just saw it yesterday. She was terrific.

Kamala Harris makes a surprise SNL cameo appearance on the weekend before the election and gets rewarded with a slobbery kiss from SNL and their informal endorsement. Unlike the SNL portrayal of Kamala from early in October where she was humorously mocked this appearance was a cringe inducing fawning over her by SNL which came across as contrived and particularly unfunny ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff-rqlU4ZWw...I'm sure this Kamala SNL appearance and portrayal by Maya Rudolph got Howard Sterns full approval though.. .For a minute there I thought SNL was getting back to it's roots of prioritizing comedy and being funny but I guess I jumped the gun on that. For SNL it is back to their primary objective of being left wing propagandists..

There was a time when the politically incorrect Howard Stern tested the social boundaries with his unique and edgy form of humor. In recent years Howard Stern has become a tyrannical establishment weasel. During the Covid-19 epidemic he said "When are we gonna stop putting up with the idiots in this country and just say it's mandatory to get vaccinated? F--- 'em. F--- their freedom. I want my freedom to live," He said this months after the data proved that the Covid vaccine did not prevent people from getting infected or from becoming infectious... In this recent butt kissing interview with Kamala Harris he criticized SNL comedian Maya Rudolph"s mocking portrayal of Kamala saying " I hate it. I don't want you being made fun of." How dare comedy get in the way of his political agenda. What a sad pathetic stooge Howard Stern has become.

Their best album. I will never stop listening to it.

Decades ago, I was at a party in my uncle's Manhattan high-rise apartment when the building suddenly filled with smoke and we had to evacuate down the stairs. My uncle grabbed a Picasso lithograph, and I grabbed a big tray of roast beef.

Great pic of Riverrun. Really miss that place!

In college I had a bartending job at Steak and Ale. Tips were good so I always had a couple hundred bucks in my wallet. It felt good to be a student and be able to walk into any restaurant that I felt like dining at. I rarely did that, but it was still a good feeling to know that I could.

As former Friendly's waitress of the year, Friendly's is always a yes. Wattamelon roll FTW

Loved Friendly's growing up in NJ. Fribble, hot-dog on toasted buttered roll, and fries was a great way to go. I also miss the diners with jukeboxes. After a night of drinking, your party could get anything from breakfast to a hot open-faced turkey sandwich at one place at 2 AM. Diners are considered a theme restaurant here in Texas and a poor facsimile at that. I like Five guys fries but they obviously don't compare to Nathan's fries. I always thought Roy Rodgers was best quality of those chains but haven't seen one in decades and good riddance to Arthur Treachers! If you're going with fried food, why choose fish? Last time I had Ritz crackers was when my girls were young, and they would suck/drool them soggy while in their car seats. Good cracker though, when dry

Oh I see it's Booker. Is that another child? How big is your tribe?