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"Dead or alive, you're coming with me."

Great New Order album or greatest New Order album?

I don't know what's weirder about Best Defense, the fact that it was a satire of Reagan era defense contractor corruption disguised as an Eddie Murphy comedy or that it used an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait as a major plot point...six years before the actual invasion.

Like James T. Kirk commanding starships, writing crime novels has always been Don's first, best destiny. Great to see him back in the chair for another one.

Look man, we can't all be the charismatic leader of a gang of bank robbing surfers.

The HBO Max social team is doing yeoman's work, leaning into the absurdity of their boomerang rebrand and diffusing ridicule by getting in on the joke This is excellent work and exactly what a social handle is for

Adventures in branding.

Which job in the film/TV industry makes the best jumping off point to becoming a director?

My version of this is believing that Todd and Janelle in Terminator 2 were actually decent, blue collar people doing their best while dealing with a borderline criminal punk-ass foster kid.

irate fan at a Grant Morrison signing

The funny thing is that All-Star Superman came out of Morrison running into a Superman cosplayer at SDCC and having a conversation with the guy that convinced him he was having a shamanic experience.

Vlad Tepes heading out to retake Wallachia from the Ottomans.

Reading about the fertility clinic bomber like:

The lesson for storytellers from this mega-viral video is that humans as pack animals will never, ever get tired of stories about characters maneuvering for power and status within a group (family, gang, government, whatever.) We'll even be mesmerized when animals do it.

the funniest thing about this: the original movie does not make a big deal of it but photographs and trophies make it clear that Nani was a really good surfer, REALLY REALLY good, maybe even had a shot at pro and had to quit to take care of her sister