Achievement Unlocked

I’m the kind of snob who likes Pink Panther movies over anything Robert Altman ever did.

“That’s not my dog.”

I see a Nobel Prize in literature in this charming lass’ future.
Added to new post.
Don’t say I don’t spoil you.

IIRR, we had double Daylight Savings, which meant catching the bus to high school in the dark. Fun times.
I remember other special measures as well, such as schools that lengthened their Christmas break from a week or two to over a month.

“That’s not my dog.”
“And I submit, sir, that you arrived home, found Miguel with Maria, and killed him in a rit of fealous jage!”
“a bimp on the head”

Fiction, be it via tv, movies, or books, lacks a feedback loop
The feedback loop used to be common sense and plausibility.
I used to think that the humanities were more grounded and democratic than technocracy because if you wrote a bad novel anyone could say “who on earth would behave like the characters in this book?”, whereas if you wrote “let’s compare the information processing networks of human societies to those of ant societies” it’s hard to know if you’re wrong and even harder to know if you’re right but lacking context, proportion and perspective.
There’s a clue in that fascinating transition and detransition article from above. The constraints of heterosexual dynamics used to be the raw material of a good novel. But these people are saying straight out that they don’t like what the scale tells them, so they’re putting their thumb on it.

This led me to the world of fanfiction, mostly male/male pairings. What could be better than boys? Double boys! But they’re written by girls so they make sense and feel familiar instead of different and intimidating. … The pairing being same sex seemed to give writers and readers the freedom to explore these characters and their relationships without being constricted by the norms that come with heterosexual dynamics.

The twitching of Chief Inspector Dreyfus’s eye as Clouseau slowly drives him mad.

Clouseau visiting Dreyfus just before his sanity hearing is some of the funniest movie footage that I’ve ever seen. Then again, I like the Three Stooges…

Clouseau visiting Dreyfus just before his sanity hearing is some of the funniest movie footage that I’ve ever seen. Then again, I like the Three Stooges…
I’ve always liked the scene where Dreyfus is giving Clouseau’s eulogy and stifling laughter everyone present mistakes for tears. It’s a brilliant performance from Herbert Lom. I crack up every time I watch it. My only gripe is that it’s too short.

Brevity is the soul of wit?
I suppose. I just think it could easily have gone on another minute or so and it would still be brilliant comedy.