barneypiccolo

First season was great. Season 2 is one of my most anticipated shows.

They've had cocktails for years, that's nothing new. I don't buy them, because the only time I bought a beer in a movie theater, they charged me $12. That was pre-Covid. Its probably $18 now. How do they think that charging those predatory proces is going to entice people back to the movies?

With those predatory prices, I have no moral qualms with bringing in my own. I stop at Dollar Tree on the way to the theater, buy my snacks there (they have candy in noiseless movie boxes for $1.25 instead of $8), and sneak in those and a bottle of water. I've been doing that for many years, and nobody has ever said a thing. My son walks in with a tote bag full of groceries, and nobody ever stops him.

This should be the top new story for every news media outlet. They should be covering this Tweet in deep detail. What does it mean? Why did they send it? Who suggested it? Who wrote it? Who approved it? Who are they addressing it to? Is it approriate for the White House to be threatening to kill anyone?

If HitlerPig doesn't declare Martial Law and suspend elections, then this Tweet should be the centerpiece of EVERY election campaign.

We need to remember this when the revolution comes, and people are hesitant to start shooting. THIS is how they see us. We need to see them the exact same way.

I just remebered a very little known fact about Washington: his mother was a full blown narcissistic bitch, who belittled and publicly humiliated him thoughout his life. She never acknowledged any of his amazing accomplishments, routinely disparaging him as a bad son. He paid for everything for her out of his pocket, but she was constantly asking for more, and berating him for being a terrible son. Once, while he was out fighting the Revolution, she petitioned the Continental Congress for money, because her worthless son wasn't taking proper care of her, embarassing the most respected man in America in front of the entire nation.

Despite her terrible behavior, he shouldered the responsibility of taking care of her as he felt he was obligated to do, without any public complaints.

When George Washington was a young man in his early 20s, he went on an expedition into the American wilderness (basically the Ohio territory) with a small group. It was a harrowing trip with several disasters in which expedition members died. The survivors nearly starved to death, and barely made it home alive.

Washington wrote a short memoir of the trip, and it became a best-seller, and gave him his first bit of national fame. Young George Washington would make a great movie.

Washington was a larger than life character who has never been properly presented in film. He was nearly a super hero. He was bigger, taller, stronger, and better built than most men, and considered very handsome, charming, and charismatic. His legendary bravery in battle was driven by his belief that he was literally protected by God. His strength of character and commitment to honor is iconic, and not just a myth. He had a list of honorable characteristics that he lived by. He was loved and respected by men, especially those who served with him, who exhibited a fierce loyalty to him.

Women loved him as well, and he was known to dance with every woman at the many events he was invited to, while Martha watched from the sidelines. He strongly respected women, and one of his closest lifelong friends was a woman who also acted as a close advisor. Despite the fact that women were attracted to him, he was fully devoted to Martha, and was never accused of affairs. She burned all of his letters to her before she died, so we'll never know the intimate details of their marriage, but by all accounts they were very close and loving.

His life contains several chapters that would make amazing movies - his wilderness trip, his attack on the French to start the French & Indian War, his leadership of the American Revvolution, and more.

Its gone away over the last generation or two, but Washington used to be venerated in American schools for better than two centuries for good reasons. Every potential presidential candidate should have to read a few biographies of Washington before being allowed to run, so they can see the template of what a real president should be.

All three of these look pretty interesting.

I used to work for a divsion of Warner Bros., and Looney Tunes is the company's DNA. Every division of WB has different cartoon mascot. My division had the Roadrunner.

It is insane that they would divest themselves of the property that is their very foundation. Its literally as devaststing to the company's image as if Disney sold off their animation division.

Its not even a prudent business move. Animation is more popular than ever, and WB's characters are as iconic as Disney's. Pixar has been struggling, now that all of their initial concepts have been fully realized. They are no longer the instant classics they once were. That leaves an opening for a good animation studio to fill. Instead of stepping up, and acepting the challenge, WB is slinking away.

Its pathetic, weak, and cowardly.

Exactly, they will bring themselves down through their own virtuosic incompetence.

They are too fucking ignorant of history to understand that by replacing experienced, intelligent leadership with loyalists who believe their own propaganda, is that they have given their opposition the gift of competence. Now the Resistance will have leadership that knows how to really wage war, as well as thousands of insider government workers who hate their stupid arrogant MAGA slavemasters, and will be willing moles, leakers, saboteurs, etc.

Nah, let his body rot in the sun, and let the buzzards have a feast.

Miracle Mile (1988) - Streaming on Prime. About a guy who randomly meets a girl, and they have instant, love-at-first-sight chemistry. They agree to meet after she gets off work at midnight. Then he picks up a ringing pay phone, and listens to the wrong number panicking because a nuclear strike is about to hit LA in an hour. It becomes a race against time to find his true love, and escape before the bombs hit, as LA descends into PRE-apocalyptic chaos.

I hope someone is working on inventing the Holodeck.