Chris Conaton
@conatonc
Music writer, movie lover, professional grocery shopper
We were SO close to everyone getting to make jokes involving the mostly-forgotten Dreamworks movie Flushed Away, but England took that from us.
For reference, Houghton is the green area way up in the middle of the top tip of the Upper Penninsula. It is the 235th biggest municipality in Michigan.
Recent rebrand a handful of gas stations around Houston. Are there any electric chargers at any of these Charge Ups? Nope. Just deep irony.
When Stubhub lets AI generate Facebook ads for them, it gives us things like this.
Man, this episode was so good in terms of explaining how the power structure in Iran actually works. Also, just got this update on my phone and it hits way differently in the wake of hearing this episode.
@adamconover.net Relevant to today’s episode. Shamwow guy finished 6th in his U.S. House Republican Primary.
Apropos of nothing, just perusing the list of biggest second weekend box office dropoffs of all time this morning. www.boxofficemojo.com/chart/bigges...
That skeletal Cyclops cover just makes me think of the Gazer Beam skeleton in The Incredibles, even though this predates that.
If anyone in the current Trump Administration had ever opened a National Geographic, this level of pedantry would be infuriating to them. Nat Geo essentially says, “Sure, you can rename your own waters The Gulf of America, but the rest of it is still The Gulf of Mexico whether you like it or not.”
Evan Gorelick in the New York Times morning newsletter reduces the Writers’ Strike and Nurses protesting against AI to mere “freakouts”.
Pepsi has tried numerous times to compete with Sprite and 7 Up. Currently they have Starry, and before that it was Sierra Mist. But before Sierra Mist there was Slice. They’ve revived that brand name as a competitor in the “healthy” soda area, going up against fruity stuff like Oli Pop and Poppi.
Kill Bill vol. 2 plays so much better as part of the same movie with vol. 1, rather than separated by 6 months or however long it was originally.
Finishing up Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher, a fascinatingly sideways riff on the Snow White story.
On the one hand I know that three shelves of Sarah J. Maas at this Target means she has a lot of fans who are probably passionate about her. But it also means she doesn’t need them to defend her. She’s gonna be fine even if you don’t take criticism of her as fightin’ words, folks.