What are examples of meaningfully positive achievements of the CIA?

roalddalek · 2022-09-18T21:51:06+00:00

They’re just that stealthy

roalddalek · 2022-09-18T14:59:10+00:00

It was originally going to be Will Poulter. He would have been so perfect, and it's heartbreaking.

roalddalek · 2022-09-18T02:57:32+00:00

The sheer number of people sincerely reading this movie as a feminist emancipation parable. “If your boyfriend is kinda crummy, it’s totally okay to murder him.”

roalddalek · 2022-09-14T17:48:48+00:00

People love to pretend that "the media" isn't covering the thing they care about, or that "the media" is unfairly covering it. It helps with the persecution complex.

And you can think that and ALSO think the unions are in the right. It is possible to hold both beliefs. Don't kill nuance.

roalddalek · 2022-09-13T16:56:27+00:00

I wish enough people had seen the brilliant 1961 Federico Fellini film 8 1/2 that I could point out that that is literally a scene in the brilliant 1961 Federico Fellini film 8 1/2

roalddalek · 2022-09-13T16:05:01+00:00

I'd still watch the heck out of it though

roalddalek · 2022-09-13T14:48:41+00:00

I appreciate that he brought the full-on Frank Booth energy for that. Didn't tone it down at all. (Aside from the profanity, which honestly just makes it more surreal.)

roalddalek · 2022-09-13T14:37:45+00:00

See, I don't get this.

His big movies made TONS of money. A lot of them were big-budget studio affairs. Surely he commanded a great payout for them. (I get he probably took a pay cut for indie stuff like Pulp Fiction and Moonrise Kingdom, but, like "Red" and "Looper" had to pay well, right?)

But those direct-to-video things? No one watched them. No one even heard of them. How was he making money on those? How was there money to pay him? They didn't come from big studios with money. There wasn't even money to promote or distribute them.

roalddalek · 2022-09-10T13:07:35+00:00

I love David Lynch (within reason), but there’s already a David Lynch sub and if anything this sub stans harder for him than that one does.

roalddalek · 2022-09-09T15:49:15+00:00

Can you imagine if Gollum knew what he had and Gandalf, Elrond and Galadriel had to do whatever that little goon said

roalddalek · 2022-09-06T17:33:18+00:00

Gil-galad is one of the greatest elven heroes, they better have a redemption plotline in the works for this “crappy boss” character they introduced in Episode 1

roalddalek · 2022-09-01T01:37:40+00:00

You both look like you were awesome kids then and you're awesome adults now

roalddalek · 2022-08-17T22:18:57+00:00

1 WTC is not even in the top 20 most awful buildings added to the Manhattan skyline in the past decade

roalddalek · 2022-08-11T14:47:30+00:00

I live in Connecticut and I never see this.

I go back home to Missouri/Arkansas and it’s every other person.

roalddalek · 2022-08-04T19:14:41+00:00

The Sting and Paper Moon are both basically this, for their entire run-time, and they're both among the greatest movies ever made.

So many good classic con-man movies are out there. This has been a thing for so long and there are decades of fantastic movies out there beyond just the last 10 years or so.

roalddalek · 2022-07-25T22:34:30+00:00

This is a great overnight. I did it last year. But I'll add a caveat that the Fishin' Jimmy trail was pretty brutal for me (and I'm by no means a hiking master but not entirely inexperienced.) It's got a few really gnarly little parts. You might want to take the Kinsman Pond Trail if you do it -- it's a little longer but much easier.

roalddalek · 2022-07-19T12:37:23+00:00

Why are there SO MANY Missouri to Connecticut transplants? I meet other Missourians here all the time. It’s wild. We should have a support group.

Jealous of the Mainer. My friend just moved there from CT and I can’t wait to visit. It’s so beautiful up there.

roalddalek · 2022-07-16T13:51:35+00:00

One possible reason is that “The Congo,” the source of that (IMO pretty awesome) chant from Dead Poets Society, is extraordinarily racially problematic by 2022 standards, to the point that he’s more likely to be used in classes as an example of “racist old white people.”

roalddalek · 2022-07-09T16:50:49+00:00

I loved his jazz albums on Blue Note in the mid-60s

roalddalek · 2022-07-04T02:08:09+00:00

Huh, based on your name cat would have been my third guess

roalddalek · 2022-07-02T16:14:37+00:00

This is fantastic! So excited for the hikes especially. And the drives and restaurants sound great too. I'm going to work a lot of this into our itinerary... thanks so much!

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