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I've had a cold for two or three weeks now, wtf.

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Huston has directed so many films I just figured this one I hadn't seen. Lol. Seriously, though, I never Huston's name bandied about when great directors are being discussed. Maybe it's because he directed a lot of pretty forgettable or forgotten stuff, but he's got so many great ones. I think TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is my favourite, though I have a soft spot for THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING.

Why don't people discuss John Huston more when the topic is great directors?

It's probably a good thing that those of us under, what, 50? didn't really grow up with the fear of nuclear annihilation. So we don't really know how to be terrified that a nuclear holocaust is more likely now than it's been in decades. I mean, I'm not sure most of us are capable of nuclear fears. I know that I'm not, while at the same time I know that, rationally, it's a very real, very present threat, especially with some bozo in the White House making light of nuclear proliferation.

"The Story of the Story of Everest" is the Citizen Kane of sketch comedy.

So, how does it feel to lose the Cold War, 25 years after it seemingly ended?

No guarantees but I'll try

I mean obviously I've seen IRON MONKEY. I'm not a philistine. Happy to hear that the IP MAN movies are worth a look, though.

I am reading Grand Hotel Abyss: the Lives of the Frankfurt School by Stuart Jeffries, and realizing that, for all their faults, I'm completely on-board with the Frankfurt brand of Marxist criticism. Their basic thesis--that capitalism leads to fascism--seems pretty timely.

What's a good Donnie Yen film? Loved him in ROGUE ONE and wondering what to check out from his back catalogue.

I signed a contract with a university press this weekend, which means, barring unforeseen circumstances, I'll have a research monograph out one of these days. Not exciting like publishing a novel, but maybe it will land me some job security and a living wage.

So, I seem to remember a story from like a year ago that Takumi Soya was returning to wrestling (and All Japan). Am I wrong? I'm wondering if it was more like Takumi was in the crowd and blogs made something of it that it wasn't.

I think I actually expected more from Romney, and less from Trump.

“I wanted my grandkids to see that I simply couldn’t ignore what Mr Trump was saying and doing, which revealed a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world,” Romney said.

I really don't understand how Mitt Romney could be under consideration for a cabinet position. Wasn't he the highest profile Never Trump guy?

Hunter S. Thompson, as usual, said it best: "This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves; finally just lay back and say it — that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at all about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon. McGovern made some stupid mistakes, but in context they seem almost frivolous compared to the things Richard Nixon does every day of his life, on purpose... Jesus! Where will it end? How low do you have to stoop in this country to be President?"

Well, Obama did much the same--he was all "change" and then, bam!, a very Clinton-esqure White House.

This has all the makings of a future TV movie. Like, Obama agrees to give some extra help with the transition so Trump can hit the ground running, but really he's there to teach Trump empathy and try to fix his black heart. Eventually, by the swearing in, or whatever, all the brietbart trolls will be like "build the wall!" and Trump will be all "Originally I was going to build the wall, but then my good friend Barry taught me it is better to love. The best."

I am working five poorly paid, part-time academic positions this term. The workload is rough, but doable. It leaves me no time for research. The bitch of that is that research (and more specifically, publishing that research) is what gets you grants and full-time work that isn't so poorly paid. So it's a bit of a trap. On the side, I've also started volunteering, teaching classes to inmates at the local penitentiary. That's pretty cool.

Nick Offerman is in the second episode of DEADWOOD, and he gets buck-ass naked. Then Wild Bill kills him.

This is actually a pretty good list BBC's 100 best films of the 21st century

I was watching YOJIMBO for the eighth time and decided to google the actor who plays the giant thug swinging a huge hammer. Name's Tsunagoro Rashomon and apparently he's a pro wrestler. Plugging his name into google only gets a couple of results from 1955-56. that is all.

So whatever happened to this project?

Maybe just post the list, at this point?