Recent content by breepf

Is your boss also blocking the Strait of Hormuz?

Quit your job or do what I did: never get a job and just live in your parents' basement. They'll die someday. DO YOU HEAR ME MOM AND DAD? YOU'RE GOING TO DIE AND THEN THIS WILL ALL BE MINE!

Well then say that dipshit, and don’t use a centuries-old anti-Jewish smear.

Incorrect. The Pharisees were not corrupt power-hungry hypocrites who bent religious laws to maintain their power. That's just what the gospels claim because they were butthurt that the Jewish leadership (and Jews more generally) didn't think a crucified political criminal was the messiah.

Project Hail Mary is most certainly a novel that presumes the incontrovertible value of expertise. It imagines a world where governments rationally respond to an imminent crisis by subordinating political authority to professional authority. That's what's so comforting about it--it's a throwback...

I'd guess that he's walking a fine line between pissing off regular Catholics and playing it up for the trad Cath pre-Vatican II crowd.

Project Hail Mary is competency porn, not because it's "hard" SF (whatever the fuck that means), but because it projects the fantasy of improvisatory scientists doo-bee-doo-dahing their way through space and its challenges.

If you would, meet me at the rest stop off exit #213 on I-40. I'll explain it in the third stall.

Sure, sure, generational offensive talent owes it all to Malone's system.

"I like messiahs who weren't crucified. HAPPY EASTER - DJT."

No one talking about Jokic's fadeaway over Wemby? Goddamn what a fucking shot.

RIP to Simmons. That being said, I never got the hype for Hyperion and Simmons took a dramatic Islamophobic turn in his later fiction.

Lodrick and Rodrick.

I like Minnie and Moskowitz quite a lot, though it feels like an adulterated version of Cassavetes inasmuch as it was greenlit as part of Ned Tanen's youth-cult push at Universal. Granted, Tanen also greenlit The Last Movie, which is maximalist Hopper. I think Cassavetes make the most...

I'll just toss this into the thread: I had reason to watch The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night recently, and I finally feel like I have a handle on how Cassavetes approaches filmmaking.