Both seasons of Tokyo Vice have been great. My partner was a tall, blonde knockout in Japan for a few years after graduate school in the 90s, and even if the writer embellished (and of course he did, and if he had not HBO would have), she said that the nightclub/conversation bar scene, particularly ...

tonyballzee wrote: Fri May 10, 2024 6:58 am I couldn't find the bee joke.

If you're talking about the one with, "Fuck 'em!" as the punchline, I tell that joke to most people I meet, and right away. One of the best things ever I've taken from the board.

Many of the things he helped create (including this board) have significantly enhanced my life going back over thirty years. I'm shocked and extremely saddened to hear this.

My condolences to Heather and to his friends, family, and colleagues.

Challengers. Thought it was going to be good based on the trailer. Wasn't disappointed.

Actually used the non-linear narrative in a novel way, almost a manipulative way. Didn't mind.

Fantastic ending, I thought. Reznor and Ross score was perfect.

An upright-bass-and-sax duo at a cafe on the water in Eureka, CA. They're not bad.

Today I bought my very first bottle of pain reliever with an easy open arthritis cap. I feel you. I scheduled a June hip replacement a few days ago. Knew it was coming - I've been doing PT and losing weight for months trying to stave it off - but that's a disquietingly older person thing, and I'm h...

I try to be a nice man when I use a public restroom. Put the seat up to piss, put it down when done. To that end, can you people who attend to public restrooms in fancy coffee shops and the like muthafuckin please make sure your toilet seat actually STAYS UP?! Fuck. This post brought me right back ...

Paul Auster

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/ ... rk-trilogy

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/ ... s-and-more

The Ex Machina film score.

SPOILER:

This movie has a scene in which the extinction of humanity is quietly getting underway, and the music for that scene is memorable, but very understated. Perfect.

I prefer to think of it as the morning after ham-and-eggs scramble that a woman in an apartment above defenestrated directly from her cast-iron skillet, having realized in the cold light of day that her suitor from the night before was a dreadful miscalculation in judgement.