Nice try, old chum.

Columbo becomes Colon-don’t.

I sincerely hope that some of these layoffs were from the teams that decided we should have take take a test before we could submit a job application.

Q: Why is Chris Brown so bad at Blackjack?

A: He always hits on a Queen.

I really liked him in SOA. But I’m a little surprised that the comments here are so positive for “Shades” in “Luke Cage”. It’s hard sometimes to separate bad writing from bad (over)acting, but that was pretty rough to watch.

Yeah, I felt the sudden urge to cheat on Sandra Bullock.

The Chris Cornell theme song is criminally underrated.

My favorite lyric that sets the tone for the entire movie is “Arm yourself because no one else here will save you”.

So many 007 movies had “the cavalry” show up to help James Bond in Act 3, but this film has 007 isolated and basically alone, a completely disposable asset to MI6. As it should be.

Colm Doherty was clearly in a dark, dark place (end of life existential crisis + deep depression). The part that seemed off to me was that he was still as functional as he was, in terms of being able to interact with others at the pub (and even play music). In real life, he probably would have invented reasons NOT to go to the pub anymore and would have become even more isolated than he already was.

The part that I didn’t like about the movie was that Colm seemed to think that change would come for him if he could just slip loose from his friendship with “dull” Padraic. The reality is that he saw his whole life as dull and pointless, and thought that if he could maybe just change this one thing, other dominoes might fall in his favor as well, which is obviously not how life works. But if you think of it from the perspective of a “junkie” refusing to speak to his old drug dealer, with the drug being “dullness”, you can kind of see the method to his madness.

Personally, I think Colm wanted to kill himself long before the story began, but didn’t for religious reasons and/or wanted to remain alive to care for his dog. The fingers were that big “cry for help” prior to suicide.

In the end, it probably doesn’t matter, because I believe that the characters in the movie were all metaphors for the state of infighting in Ireland, so you could think of each character as representing a group of people within Ireland who couldn’t see eye-to-eye. Arguably, cutting off fingers and burning of houses might represent the loss of life and property in pursuit of (meaningless?) political and religious philosophies during a time of war in Ireland.

Did you hear the knife’s music?

It’s all Bowie.

In the same State (Florida) where motorcyclists don’t have to wear helmets because of their “fReEdUmS”?

If it’s MtF surgery, then it’s Pussy Galore.

This worked out so well for Twitter. What could possibly go wrong? /s

All we know is that the parents’ Earth identities were Mr. and Mrs. Redgick and that their race was known to the MIB as “Squids”.

https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Redgick

That is correct, Agent P.

We don’t Kinkos shame here.

I played it during the beginning of the pandemic, so it hit differently for me, especially when there were shortages of everything. (Good thing those days are over, right? /s)

While you might see the deliveries as just a bunch of random boxes, I saw in my head Sam Porter Bridges delivering life-saving medicine and technology, food, books, movies, music, etc. that was incredibly needed by those poor people who would have to live their entire lives underground in the bunkers. I tried to imaging how excited the recipients of those deliveries would be when Sam arrived.

I feel like I gained such an incredible appreciation for the workers in logistics and delivery in the real world, and the undoubtedly lonely and isolated (and sometimes dangerous) lives they lead, just to get me my package.

No fault she was pregnant.

I’m still waiting on the audio book. So far, it’s radio silence.

Never Say Never… Again.

I’d rather see an XCOM movie or TV series do this. They have a character that is the closest thing I’ve seen to the urban legends.

https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Thin_Man

Practical Effects require practically planning ahead, which many productions aren’t keen to do.

At Christmas dinner, you couldn’t pay me to talk to your racist QAnon uncle.

At Hooters, the servers are, in fact, paid to talk to (and flirt with) that same racist QAnon uncle.

The author wanted to pretend that they were vanilla.

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, in BDSM culture, “vanilla” means someone who is not kinky.

My perception is that HR screening software prevents most resumes from ever reaching a real human being unless we stuff it with keywords from the job description. But if we do that, the resulting bloated mess of a resume and cover letter that get past the machine will not be ideal for a human reader, who will want something clean and short.

Any advice on the right balance between the two, that will still get my resume to a real person, without it being word soup?

I can’t shake this one.