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Burt Likko
Pseudonymous Portlander. Homebrewer. Atheist. Recovering litigator. Recovering Republican. Recovering Catholic. Recovering divorcé. Recovering Former Editor-in-Chief of Ordinary Times. House Likko's Words: Scite Verum. Colite Iusticia. Vivere Con Gaudium.
Mueller to Testify Before Congress
June 25, 2019
June 25, 2019
There’s A Trivia Buff In Every Office
June 25, 2019
A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as Foul
June 24, 2019
The Other Victims of the Opioid Crisis
June 24, 2019
June 24, 2019
June 23, 2019
June 23, 2019
Bemused, Bothered, and Bewildered
June 22, 2019
June 11, 2019
June 19, 2019
June 3, 2019
A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as Foul
June 24, 2019
Stalling The Runaway Costs of Free College
May 28, 2019
June 12, 2019
June 5, 2019
June 14, 2019
Setting aside jurisdictional questions, I'm going to opine that no, it doesn't. Pruneyard was specific to California's own constitution, not the US Constitution. Ravelry, not being the government, can control the speech of its members who are then free to not be members if they wish.
The crux of Pruneyard [...]
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on Mueller to Testify Before CongressWe'll have to see how this goes, but even if all h…
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on A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as FoulThere are no bureaucratic excuses for this. Althou…
on A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as FoulSo that's what it comes down to? Show up on the Me…
on A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as FoulThe government could easily spend $775 per day to… on A Camp By Any Other Name Would Smell as FoulMcConnell has no interest in letting any legislati…He Was So Well-Respected
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Roundup, Pseudoscience and the Need for Villains
Ways of Knowing
That’s… just… WOW!
So damn creepy! [SHUDDER!]Report
I know, right? So much awesome there.Report
All it would need for perfection is the hero to build some kind of junkyard mecha to go toe to toe with the beastie.Report
Brought to you by Toyota.
http://jalopnik.com/toyota-recalls-870-000-cars-because-of-freaking-spiders-1447758469Report
Here’s a post Burt or someone else should do:
Why is it that once an actor/actress has been in any sci-fi/horror TV show or movie – no matter how bad it was or how dreadful they were – they are granted a career in sci-fi/horror movies for the rest of their lives? Not only a career, but one in which DVD boxes will say things like, “Featuring Walter Koenig of STAR TREK!” even if they have, like, 2 lines?Report
Typecasting and fan love.Report
Walter Koenig? The guy who played Bester on B5 was in Star Trek too!?!!1! Awesome! Literally space awesome!Report
You really didn’t know that? He played Chekov, the Navigator, sat next to Sulu on the bridge. Spoke with a doofusy fake Russian accent.Report
(I knew that. Just being silly. “Where are your nuclear wessels?”)Report
And did you know Wings wasn’t Paul McCartney’s first band?Report
@mike-schilling that would be the Kingsmen, wouldn’t it?Report
Wings? You mean that crappy sitcom? Buffalo style? Wings Hauser ( only noted for crappy movie fans)? Was there another Wings?Report
And did you know Wings wasn’t Paul McCartney’s first band?
Who is Paul McCartney?Report
Ringo Starr’s bass player.Report
I never understood the appeal of this kind of entertainment and probably never well.
Keep in mind “so bad its good” has always gone over my head. Same with Camp and Kitsch.Report
It can be a fun social activity. It’s simple enough that you can talk to people while you’re watching it without missing much. You can make fun of it together.Report
I care about art too much. Life is too short and there is too much good art out there. I can’t imaging wasting time on the campy/kitschy stuff.
Though I also don’t quite get passive entertainment either. Perhaps my brain is just hyper active.Report
Life is too short for humor?Report
James,
There is plenty of intentional comedy that I can watch and laugh with and at while still avoiding this stuff 🙂 Stuff with actual wit and intelligence.Report
Oh just ignore NewDealer, he plain doesn’t get it.
Let him have his high-brow artsy-fartsy “humor”, we can all enjoy this excellent beer & pizza movie without his belly-aching the death of wit.
😉Report
MRS,
The Philadelphia Story isn’t funny?Report
MRS was a Navy man. There’s nothing “funny” about covert invisibility experiments resulting in time-traveling destroyers. 😉Report
The time-travelling part is fine by this Navy man. It’s the sailors embedded in bulkheads that give me the williies.Report
@newdealer
Not compared to Bringing Up Baby.Report
NewDealer,
Surely you’d laugh at folks reading the stage directions??
I’ll quote:
“This is quite homoerotic”
You’ve done theatre, surely you can laugh at people doing it wrong?
(Note: additional hilarity ensues when someone tries to make a bad
show, and instead makes a /good/ one).Report
I agree with Rod, the whole “sailors in the bulkheads” bit was unfunny, the rest was pretty cool.Report
“I never understood the appeal of this kind of entertainment and probably never well.”
what is this…emotion…you humans call…fun?Report
Cute. I have fun.Report
This reminds me of “8 legged freaks”.Report
Another classic!Report