It’s a movie that I saw, enjoyed, and mostly wrote off when it came out. But here we are 20+ years later and I’m still rewatching it every few years. It is still just over-the-top over-acted ridiculous silly fun.

Very well-paced and quotable. Main characters (Knightley and Bloom) were unremarkable, but the side characters (Depp and especially Rush) put in excellent performances into very silly roles.

It’s not The Godfather, but it’s not trying to be. It is pretty perfect at everything it did try to be.

It’s like Craftsman all over again.

This is why I’ve really been trying to make the ‘Orange Julius’ nickname stick.

In his mind, teaching kids that black people are ok and gays exist is ‘poor education.’

Punish him by making him watch Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 300 times.

Why should they get their salary? This is happening because they didn’t do their damn jobs.

I mean that basically happened when Cheney shot that guy in the face.

I meant soon.

And Avalon Securities.

And Blackwater is forever stained with the blood of innocents. But Academi is totally fine guys.

The lottery is either a tax on stupidity or a tax on hope.

I don’t know which is more depressing.

I spent some time in Germany and it’s very much so not true there. I was waiting on line for something and my German friend got in a different line and he got his food a solid ten minutes before me. Afterwards he explained that he took the line against the wall so people could only budge in front of him from one direction. He told me “Germans cut. It’s just the way it is.”

Yup. I’m a warehouse manager. The logistics/ transportation/ warehousing industry is already stretched disturbingly thin. If we take away the people who run the places, the world will grind to a halt.

Seattle PD is and has always been terrible. For a city with as little violent crime as we are, you would think that we would have a semi-competant police force. We aren’t Baltimore or Chicago or Memphis. We don’t need a violent, antagonistic, adversarial police force. Yet decade after decade, Seattle PD shows themselves to be the worst of the worst of violent white nationalists.

SPD’s training standards are embarrassingly low. SPD’s staffing numbers are embarrassing low. Rookie cops make over $100k and the right-wing pundits say it’s not enough, while first-year teachers make $55k and the right-wing pundits say it’s too much. They blame the BLM riots and say that the city betrayed them, but the average person here had absolutely zero faith in them well before the riots. Most SPD officers don’t actually live in Seattle.

Sorry if the second paragraph got a bit into unhinged-rant territory, but shit like this is infuriating. SPD is so clearly shit and needs to be purged.

Surprise, surprise. Starbucks has become the poster child for union-busting in modern America. Fuck Starbucks and fuck Howard Schultz.

I was at Warped Tour many years ago, talking with randos in the campground. I mentioned which bands I was there to see, and this guy gave me a huge smile and yelled ‘You’re old’ in my face.

Rambo?

And Washington State produces more potatoes than Idaho.

And Wisconsin has more lakes than Minnesota.

Same thing with the guy who named it ‘dyslexia.’

Ha. Thanks. Like I said, my Deutsch is kinda shit.