Mike D’Angelo
@gemko
I may live badly, but at least I don’t have to work to do it.
GOLDEN GIRLS jokes that play better today than they did 35 years ago #2 (same episode).
My ultimate goal is to get 1% or less across the board. Got fairly close here, underestimated how many people would remember Clarkson as Mrs. Ness. Not sure I’d previously managed 0%; I know that film only because I reviewed it for The Dissolve (and it still took me a bit to remember the title).
New achievement in dumbass “These attitudes were wrong then and they are wrong now” revision/censorship just dropped.
Question from the colorblind: What actual color is Aurora’s hair in SLEEPING BEAUTY? Is it gold? I would not call this color yellow (it’s one of a zillion hues for which I don’t really have a name), but of course I’m frequently wrong.
Is there something unique about this play that merits the bizarre credit “entire production directed by”?
Wonder if THE END OF OAK STREET was partially inspired by the ’90s OUTER LIMITS episode I’m currently watching.
Commas in the last sentence are one of those things that I know is incorrect without being able to articulate why it’s incorrect.
So we conquered it seven years ago. “That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”—Pete Conrad, 19 Nov 1969
Predictably, that dolt who “unskewed” THE ODYSSEY’s Rotten Tomatoes audience score thinks it’s totally valid to vote on films you haven’t seen. Ignorant opinions based on social-media discourse are just as valid as any other!
Met a lot of friends and fellow future critics on rec.arts.movies. Turns out I was also hanging out with others whose work I discovered years later. Here's me and @sepinwall.bsky.social in 1994 responding 20 minutes apart to someone who thought Hugh Grant and Richard E. Grant were brothers.
Another reason to be annoyed by the dominance of superhero movies for most of this century.
Just now realized why Telemachus saying “my dad” was distracting to me despite my knowing it’s not an anachronism per se.
Tried using Claude to do some list-related grunt work. It goofed a little, but its explanation for the error sounds creepily human. I can kinda see why people anthropomorphize these things.
Wait until this dude finds out about what happened to virtually every non-anamorphic movie shot on film.
Oh good I wasn’t the only one to be reminded of that. www.cityweekly.net/film/film-re...
Belatedly learned that the last surviving arthouse theater from my youth finally shut down after 42 years (irregularly and not always under the same name). I was an employee ca. 1987–88. Appropriately, the last film I saw there was DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE. Many cherished memories.
Fascinated by others’ use of online slang. I don’t suppose that anyone who types this intends for me to read it the way I involuntarily do, as “laughing my fucking ass ooooooooooofff.” Extending the final letter has been fully divorced from sound, merely signifying emphasis.
Celebrating the 250th by playing the best game ever invented (the existence of which I only discovered 15 minutes ago).
Can’t believe this got published. It’s like saying “People who drank Diet Coke for weeks generally grew to like it. But increased exposure to Coke Zero has had the opposite effect. Many complain when gallons of it are poured on their heads without their consent.” (Yes, it’s fuckin’ Helen Lewis.)
There is indeed and it’s heaven but you do have to live in a city with a name that sounds like bovine testes.