Geoff George

I'm so tired, man.

Meaning this one:

I dunno! I don't have good answers. That's just where my head went. Hence my follow-up reply.

Sometimes I feel like a lot of the problems of the current moment boil down to "how do you save people from themselves?"

This is NOT to say they shouldn't do this, but it sounds like this is mostly regulating the therapy providers, and isn't the bigger problem people engaging in direct "therapy" with the likes of ChatGPT?

Mostly I love that they brought Van on for this.

A review of The Mule (2018) Clint finds another late-period role through which to comment on himself, playing a doddering (but still sneering) war vet with a touch of heart and a lack of filter. ("You're welcome, dykes," he says...

Another one I finished late last night. Didn't have time to write any thoughts down before bed.

A review of The Naked Gun (2025) It sucks that catching a screwball comedy in theaters is about as common as a trip to the dentist these days, but even suggesting there's one every six months or so feels generous. Shots of straight m...

I had a lot of fun with "The Naked Gun," and laughter alone should be a good enough reason to go to the movies.

Today I left my place FIVE minutes after the posted start time and still got here with previews to spare.

Good thread. I've had my doubts that there's a magical outlet/publication model that's going to turn the tide here. More inventive strategies are gonna be necessary to meet people where they are when the media environment's so siloed.

Slate headline reading, "Your Next Favorite Book Will Be Fanfiction"

No it won't. :)

A review of K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) Not sure I had a good reason for avoiding this for so long, other than remembering it bombed when it ran in theaters. Should've waved off the tepid reception and judged for myself 'cuz I actually foun...

Much like the "Chernobyl" miniseries, this movie did a good job of making me not want to experience radiation poisoning.

Yes, two reposts in short order counts as a lot, in my opinion.

Doing a lot of reposting tonight. Sorry.

Tapping the "we already had this and it was called Gawker" sign

kennedy is going to kill a lot of people

I read a lot, but that still feels like doing a lot of nothing.

A review of Born Yesterday (1993) It's rude that Melanie Griffith was nominated for a Razzie for her work here because she's not what's wrong with this movie. She and John Goodman (maybe less so Don Johnson) are doing what they can wi...

What on EARTH did I just watch?

A review of A Stranger Among Us (1992) What a bizarre film. Completely deflates all tension in the romance it sets up and seems wholly uninterested in the lame murder mystery its plot depends on. Griffith feels miscast, and her reasoning f...

Forgot to add this forgettable movie to the thread yesterday.

Balk Rules 1. You can't just be up there and just doin' a balk like that. 1a. A balk is when you 1b. Okay well listen. A balk is when you balk the 1c. Let me start over 1c-a. The pitcher is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, batter, that prohibits the batter from doing, you know, just trying to hit the ball. You can't do that. 1c-b. Once the pitcher is in the stretch, he can't be over here and say to the runner, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna tag you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that. 1c-b (1). Like, if you're about to pitch and then don't pitch, you have to still pitch. You cannot not pitch. Does that make any sense? 1c-b (2). You gotta be, throwing motion of the ball, and then, until you just throw it.

A balk is when you

We have opted not to go to the game.

:(

Podcast headline reading: "Will Lebanon ever see justice for the Beirut port blast?"

My broken brain read "Lebanon" as "LeBron" here, and I had to do a full reset.

A review of Total Recall (1990) Had not seen this since a distracted watch in mixed company at approximately age fourteen or fifteen. Only remembered the product placement, the triple-boobed woman, and Arnold making Arnold noises as...

Oh, Verhoeven.

Extension of the Chicago air-quality alert means I'm now debating whether I still wanna go sit at the Chicago Dogs game all afternoon tomorrow.

It was a lot.

the manosphere stuff isn’t new. they were glorifying redpill pickup artist types when I was a teen. the problem is that podcasts and streamers more perfectly replicate the experience of hanging out with social peers than any mass medium in history and the human brain can’t cope

A push notification from GrubHub with the heading "Post-featival cravings?"

GrubHub thinks I might've gone to Lolla.

I wish to pet the pig.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, I've never looked into it further. I just wish something cool could be done with all that space!