Bill Simmons just opened his show by saying he didn’t have an immediate reaction pod to Jaylen Brown because he got a colonoscopy yesterday and thought he died when he heard the news, best to ever do it
Euros keep pretending that somehow America's greater capacity for assimilation is just due to the different immigrants we get. Meanwhile, Lawrence, Kansas, is maybe two weeks away from sending a battalion of volunteers for the Algerian efforts to aid the Sahrawi.
Goat Sergio Leone being offered the job of directing The Godfather and going 'No, I want to direct my adaptation of a novel barely anybody has heard of' and then he directs one of the best films ever made for like the fifth time in his career
Robert Redford and Paul Newman's friendship was so beautiful. Redford would tell an interviewer "Last week I had his racecar completely filled with baked beans as a gag" and then Newman would calmly reveal he's been using Redford's summer house to enrich uranium
I feel bad for anyone who doesn’t watch Women’s March Madness too. There is nothing on the Men’s side that compares to rooting for Kim Mulkey’s downfall.
not sure why hamnet tries to appeal to modern audiences with “grief” when shakespeare’s play centers on an issue much more relevant today: a dispute over land belonging to denmark
To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets.
They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.
i’ve been going on a lot of dates with various women just so i can use their tv to watch mad men bc i don’t have one. i’m averaging 2 episodes per woman. i’ll make it to season 3 by next month.
And finally, legendary pool hustler Minnesota Fats passed away Wednesday.
You know, now he's probably up in Heaven, racking them up for a game with Saint Peter.
Or maybe he's in Hell, where demons gnaw at his flesh, and the agonies of the damned never cease.
Either way, he'll be missed!
let's consider this seriously.
possibly 1,000 times in my life I have been asked, "What is the book that changed your life?"--or-- "What is the film that changed your life?"
are these serious questions? exactly how does a film change one's life? if your life is so insubstantial, so fragile & haphazard that a movie can change it then another movie, seen next week, will change it again.