wickajack.bsky.social
#Nashville TN since '85. Lucky husband to @kidmcwonder.bsky.social. Father of an amazing ASD1/ADHD boy šā¾ļø Film, theater, and books are best in life, but somehow I still watch lots of TV. #autism #neurodiversity #adhd
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Fair question. I think, just from the trailers, Gunn might be making a story centered on whether the world needs Superman. One way to do that is to use foils like Gardner, and I think that's part of what we're going to see.
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Speaking as someone who read the entire Justice League run of Giffen/DeMatteis, THAT is the right guy to play Guy Gardner.
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Yes. The spray can rolling down the street in Kiarostami's CLOSE-UP is an indelible image for me inside a brilliant film. I also like TASTE OF CHERRY, and felt riveted by Farhadi's A SEPARATION. Haven't seen any Panahi films yet, but I'll get to him.
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This is why your 1500 words are better than everyone else's 1500 words. Get yourself some aquavit and take the night off. It's okay with me.
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*throws the switch on the @bcdreyer.social emergency signal*
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This chart is absolutely essential.
It explains why Trump removed America from the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
Because it was *working*.
Trump needed a cause for war, so he manufactured it. This has all been in the works for some time now. He was never "weighing options."
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That would be seventeen Yes-es from me, here's Meg for if/when you add more, because I should be working
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In any case I'd be reluctant to ask him again, since we rarely speak and his memory is fading. But not his combativeness in defense of Trump and his gang, who he still pretends are conservatives, so far as I'm aware.
So Happy Father's Day to those who celebrate.
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Possibly to reassure my mother that he hadn't thrown it away? The Doonesbury of those days asked great questions with its stories and reflected a complicated world that didn't fit within my father's worldview.
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It was the first step on my personal political journey, and not the one he wanted for me, I suspect. I asked him once years later why he had it, and his reply was only that it had been a gift. From who, I don't remember him saying. Why was it beside his bed if it didn't interest or influence him?
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I don't know why he had it, but I do remember how Nixon- whose administration is the deserving target of much of Doonesbury's sophisticated ridicule- affected Dad. Specifically, when Nixon resigned and flew away in Marine One.
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This strip, on the back of Call Me When You Find America, is probably the first complex joke I ever understood.
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My father was and remains a committed Christian, often claiming he tacks to the right of Libertarians. He never recommended any show, book, or film to me. But he kept this collection of Doonesbury in the bureau beside his bed. I found it while on a desperate search for Playboys.
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A true expert or friend will admit when they donāt have the answer. ChatGPT will make one up for you. Some people will inevitably find that safe and comforting, as attractive as a visit from the fairies
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ChatGPT is very much the same, except instead of heading to a seance for some ectoplasm action, you just talk to the friend in your pocket. Social media to ChatGPT isnāt such a leap for the lonely and vulnerable.
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Get his ass, Kate
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Funny how they essentially expected a tool that will break their commercial writer's block so they have time to wrestle with the writer's block between them and their passion.
AI ain't the problem here.
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Trumpās big beautiful bill was passed by one vote in the middle of the night; it cuts $1.1 trillion for the poorest Americans while adding an additional $5 trillion to the federal debt over the next decade. But hereās 17 more articles about Joe Bidenās cognitive decline.