Play me like a fiddle, rip my heart out and leave me here to bleed, you sappy Disneyesque swing-for-the-bleachers small-town-trap escape story. You nailed it, baby Jake. Viva la rockets!
Author: m
9.0 Promising Young Woman
I found my militant feminist movie last night, after Hustlers failed hard to deliver on every level. Damn, some intense manhating. Good stuff, hahaha. Carey Mulligan continues to steal my heart.
About as dark as I Care A Lot, but with a solid theme: men are disgusting lustful gluttons.
MasterChef season 10
Let the contest begin!
Rules:
Pick 1 keeper and 2 losers. Gain a point for each loser that leaves the show. Lose a point for each keeper that leaves the show.
You can pick anyone you want at the start of each show.
In the future, as agreed, if rules emerge, then we may update rules as agreed before the start of the episode.
If Mike wins, Dan endures an hour of Blender pair programming hell. If Dan wins, Mike sets him up a quick website with authentication.
UPDATE: Mike is a pussy who got tired of endless entrails of wasted animals and bailed out. Sorry, these “world class chefs” are Julia Child era dinosaurs.
APE-RONS Bri Baker, Dallas, Texas, Cocktail Server Dorian Hunter, Cartersville, Ga., Creeler Fred Chang, Redondo Beach, Calif., Revenue Analyst Jamie Hough, Charleston, S.C., Fisherman Micah Yaroch, Grand Rapids, Mich., Kitchen Porter Nick DiGiovanni, Barrington, R.I., College Student Noah Sims, Epworth, Ga., Septic Systems Foreman Renee Rice, Ada, Okla., Receptionist Sam Haaz, Philadelphia, Pa., Attorney Sarah Faherty, San Diego, Calif., Former Army Interrogator Shari Mukherjee, Rochester, Minn., Stay-at-Home Mom Subha Ramiah, West Nyack, N.Y., R&D Director Wuta Onda, Bronx, N.Y., English Teacher |
APE-ROFFS       |
| Score | Dan win | Dan lose | Mike win | Mike lose | Eliminated | Dan | Mike |
| Ep1+2 | — | — | — | 20 | 20 | ||
| Ep3 | | | | | | 20 | 20 |
| Ep4+5 | | | | | | 20 | 20 |
| Ep6+7 | | | | | | 21 | 20 |
| Ep8+9 | | | | | | 21 | 20 |
| Ep10+11 | | | | | | 21 | 20 |
| Ep12+13 | | | | |
9.0 Think Like A Man
Another retro ensemble making me happy. Has my fave girls from Person of Interest (Taraji Penda Henson) AND Black Monday (Regina Hall). And Kevin Hart tearing it up. Silly romcom but never slows down. Hey there’s J. B. Smoove, too!
8.5 Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her
My obsession with old ensemble movies with killer casts continues… This melancholy gem captured the depth of a host of unique female characters across half a dozen intermingled story lines. Cameron Diaz and Calista Flockhart brought their A games, as Holly Hunter always does.
9.0 The Mandalorian
I have plenty of shade to throw at The Mandalorian. Specifically, at my old pal Jon Favreau for being such an obsessed douchebag carnivore. But you will not find, anywhere in present or past, anything, that has ever LOOKED so good! The background scenery has been optimized with an Unreal screen ring, and the foreground is inside the ring, lit to perfection. Nothing ever before has delivered such beautiful pixels … just … so satisfying to see…
9.0 Black Monday seasons 1-2
The blackest of 80s comedy, drenched in every terrible glorious cultural reference from bad hair to bad movies to bad music, with a stock market theme full of back stabbers and pedal-to-the-medal ribald punchlines. Like a mashup of Billions, Arrested Development, Veep, Wolf of Wall Street and In Living Color. Silly crazy rude fun.
Spy Games Season 1 contest
Dan and I have the Covid Blues so we are scraping for any reality races on which we can bet. Any show where each episode has a winner and a loser. Here’s our next train wreck! Call your bookie, slap down those bets!
New improved rules, now with more action!
- Pick the player you think will win, pick the two players you think will be chosen to defend themselves, and pick the player you think will be actually eliminated.
- For winners, start with 10 points. If your winner is eliminated, you lose a point, and you have to pick another. If your winner wins, you score a point, and they remain your pick.
- For losers, start with 0 points. Score a point for each defender you got right. If your loser is eliminated, you score a point, and get to pick another.
- Contest winner is the one with the most points after the final episode!
- Also, we are playing with DAN’S BASTARDIZATION OF THE PICK RULES: you can change any pick you want in between episodes. WHAT? LAME, Mike does not approve… but he’s very accommodating, so here we go…
| STILL BREATHING | ||
 Chelsey Mori Raffle |  Brock Thompson Clone |  Christina Randall Cheek |
| FUCKING OUT | ||
 Iran |  Shots |  Emo |
 Buff |  Plank |  In-And-Out |
 Loser |
RESULTS
| Winner | (the rest) | Defender + Loser | |
| Ep01 | | | |
| Ep02 | | | |
| Ep03 | | | |
| Ep04 | | | |
| Ep05 | | | |
| Ep06 | N/A | | |
| Ep07 | N/A | | |
| Ep08 |
WIN PICKS
| Ep01 | Ep02 | Ep03 | Ep04 | Ep05 | Ep06 | Ep07 | Ep08 | |
| Dan | | | | | | | | |
| Mike | | | | | | | | |
| Winner | | | | | | N/A | N/A |
DEFENDER PICKS
| Ep01 | Ep02 | Ep03 | Ep04 | Ep05 | Ep06 | Ep07 | Ep08 | |
| Dan | | | | | | | | N/A |
| Mike | | | | | | | | N/A |
| Defenders | | | | | | | | N/A |
LOSE PICKS
| Ep01 | Ep02 | Ep03 | Ep04 | Ep05 | Ep06 | Ep07 | Ep08 | |
| Dan | | | | | | | | N/A |
| Mike | | | | | | | | N/A |
| Loser | | | | | | | | N/A |
SCORE
| | Ep01 | Ep02 | Ep03 | Ep04 | Ep05 | Ep06 | Ep07 | Ep08 |
| Dan | 14 PERFECT! | 14 | 13 | 17 PERFECT! | 19 | 18 | 19 | |
| Mike | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | |
The Future (thank you Elon)
- Global fleet of autonomous-driving taxis (no more parking lots, traffic, pollution, car payments, crashes… you won’t grok this for a while, but Now You Know was there to warn you…)
- Global near-instantaneous internet (Starlink internet-via-vacuum is 40% faster than fiber; again, you’ve been warned…); this alone will be lucrative enough to fund all Elon’s plans
- Utopian Mars with a self-governed, self-sustaining, and industrious population, nonstop direct (rocket) flights, and fast-as-light communications network
- Coming much sooner than you think to a planet near you…