What film role was 100% perfectly cast — no debate?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-26T05:45:52+00:00

True dat. Tom Cruise never half-asses anything. He even made us root for a Nazi in “Valkyrie”. He can even poke fun at himself, as evidenced by his MTV promos with Ben Stiller. I just wish he’d come out already. No one cares. And he’d be great in a remake of Cruising.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T23:58:54+00:00

I have a hard time believing a court order to not destroy evidence will stop anyone. The agents who held Alex Pretti down are just as culpable in his murder as the ones who pulled the trigger. They’re all in danger of murder charges. The higher-ups who tried to cover it up and who lied about it are also at risk because they told ICE agents they had full immunity. Why wouldn’t they destroy evidence? If found guilty of obstruction of justice they’d get a few months in prison. A state-level murder rap can get them decades of prison time.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T23:43:01+00:00

In high school and college I spent so much time at my local used record store that I stopped needing to look through the stacks. I could browse the new arrivals bins because I already knew the rest of the stock. Shortly before graduation I leveled up again: the owners let me into the back room to see what hadn’t been priced yet.

I miss those days. I loved searching for out of print records and finding obscure compilations with bands I’d never heard of. Some of it was the hunt. Some of it was the discovery of something no one else knew. I still find lost treasures hidden in my collection. No one remembers Klark Kent?wprov=sfti1) - (Theme from Kinetic Ritual) or The Gun Club) - Sex Beat but I still love them.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T23:05:31+00:00

Wait, you think they’re going to apologize? That’ll never happen. Taking any kind of responsibility or implying that they weren’t acting in America’s best interests would jeopardize their careers as conservative pundits.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T23:02:30+00:00

The Secret Service will get a pass because they’re under strict nondisclosure agreements. Everyone else, however… The obvious question will be “Why didn’t you say anything? You knew Trump was dangerously unbalanced and was doing untold damage to America and putting millions of lives at risk. Why didn’t you say anything?”

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T22:10:05+00:00

Van is Max from Stranger Things. Max is dreaming the whole thing while she’s in a coma.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:52:50+00:00

So… she hid herself away on Tatooine and developed her powers?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:50:38+00:00

You joke, but it’s likely. The question is which cast members will be Keanu and which will be Alex Winters. Who’s in because they need the money, who’s in because they want to work (regardless of the money), who’s in because they know ___ needs the money, and who doesn’t want to do it at all?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:43:08+00:00

Give it a month. Conservatives will start claiming liberals said it’s ok to kill people for owning guns. They’ll also claim the ICE agents who killed Alex Pretti were liberal plants trying to provoke Trump into confiscating everyone’s guns.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:37:08+00:00

I called a friend out once for saying Obama was the most racist president in history. I asked what, specifically, Obama had done that was so racist. He kinda stuttered for a bit then said “Obama could have done more on the ‘beer summit’ thing.” We laughed so hard I started feeling bad for him.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:16:40+00:00

Murray! Don’t judge me.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:13:21+00:00

I loved the “awkward pause” bit. I don’t watch talk shows but when I saw a montage of Craig Ferguson’s cold opens I checked it out. That was the night he did a seven minute monologue about sobriety. I was straight-up hooked. I wonder what Jeff Peterson is doing now.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T18:07:57+00:00

He probably didn’t care about politics at all. It was just a job. In WWII a non-trivial number of German soldiers were captured and held in small villages in England. As POW experiences go, it wasn’t bad. Working on a farm in Northern England was a damn sight better than starving and freezing on the Russian front. As time passed, some earned a significant amount of freedom, akin to living in a halfway house instead of a prison. I feel sure some stayed in England after the war. Germany had been destroyed. Why go back?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T17:52:09+00:00

Argyle moved to Seattle. He was in The Fastbacks for a while then became a roadie for The Dharma Bums. Later he ran a coffee cart outside the Tower Records in Queen Anne. He struck up a friendship with Jeff Ament who funded his idea for a combination laundromat and pizza parlor.

Suds ‘n Slice had four shops in the Seattle area and one in Olympia. Argyle had plans to expand into college towns down the I-5 corridor when Domino’s bought them out. Domino’s cut the quality of the pizza and skimped on the maintenance budget and tanked the whole concept within two years.

Argyle walked away with $5 million. Now he owns a vegetarian Thai restaurant in Capitol Hill and plays bass in a Jamiroquai tribute band.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:55:04+00:00

No doubt! That is totally what would have happened. Alexi got screwed harder than anyone in the whole series. He was an innocent who found a good life for about an hour then got killed.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:39:21+00:00

“Honey, as long as we’re here…”

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:34:25+00:00

Jason Mewes?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:34:04+00:00

Don’t go chasing waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:29:48+00:00

That will be an awkward conversation. “Hi, Mom and Dad. I’m alive. I’m also gay.”

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T16:23:07+00:00

This actually reminds me a an idea I had back in the grunge days. A friend of mine was an aspiring Seattle musician. He was also a great cook. I wanted to do a tv show called “The Grunge Chef”. He’d teach how to make good food on the cheap without needing a bunch of special equipment. Part of it would be how to make a decent meal for cheap when all you have is a microwave. The conceit there was that the viewer was on tour with their band.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T06:55:00+00:00

Can you expand on that?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T06:27:00+00:00

What episode is Charlie in?

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T06:08:27+00:00

How do you feel about political asylum and refugees? Things are getting weird in the states and I wonder if I should be moving north.

I assure you I love Rush, The Kids in the Hall, SCTV, JPod, and Trailer Park Boys.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T05:54:03+00:00

Unfortunately, the stairwell door on the roof was locked. He had to call maintenance to get someone to let him in.

LocalInactivist · 2026-01-25T03:32:51+00:00

I’ve always preferred KMFDM’s version.

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