Re: Guest Post -- Personnel

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Tom Cruise really nailed that role.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 5:27 AM
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I don't really see anything wrong with rando populists. I don't think Trump qualifies though. At least not his second run.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 8:16 AM
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I tried to read the article, but I had to check "I'm not a robot" and with AI, I'm not even sure anymore.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 3:26 PM
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Robots are allegorical Czech proletarians. Mr. Hick, are you a Czech allegory?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 4:30 PM
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I once pissed off a Polish woman just by existing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 4:36 PM
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5: From this we can deduce that Moby is a Czech allegory, however, not necessarily a robot, as there are other Czech allegories.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 4:52 PM
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She's probably dead now. I still kind of want to know why she didn't like me.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 4:59 PM
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6: Famously, newts.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-31-25 8:06 PM
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Someone must have been telling lies about Moby H., because without having done anything wrong he was shouted at by a Polish woman one fine morning.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 2:03 AM
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5: I had a Russian old lady yelling at me in some provincial town in, like, 1990. I knew why, though. She was accusing me of being jewish*.

*interesting how I felt the need to revise from the noun form to the adjective. It somehow felt less like I was recreating the anti-semitism. But she was definitely using the noun, and telling me that all the jews ran away and refused to defend the country in WW2. I didn't have enough historical knowledge (or subtlety in Russian) to exaplain that the Russians and Germans had provided some other reasons to run away. And speaking of Jews fleeing Russia, I recently stopped by the Chagall museum in Nice and omg so much intense, beautiful work! Mostly created after he left Russia.


Posted by: simulated annealing | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 2:39 AM
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I think that was a Seinfeld episode.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 4:01 AM
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Seven Veils is great. Rip-roaring good time, clever on many levels, actually has a message and delivers it well. It actually does what Tár just pretended to do, without excusing abuse or playing footsie with fascists or insulting cosplayers. And has decapitation jokes.
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Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 4:43 AM
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It would be a shame to not use the opportunity given by the subject matter.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 6:45 AM
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12 I really like Atom Egoyan's films and can't wait to catch this one. He came here for a film festival last year to give a master class though none of his films were screened)


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 6:50 AM
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I feel like I should make some kind of joke here but nothing comes to mind.

On topic, I have a dumb question: are automatic rifles hard to fire? Assuming the anecdote has some truth to it, would Z. and his chief of staff be able to do anything other than kill themselves to avoid capture? Do you think they had training with their weapons?


Posted by: J, Robot | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 1:29 PM
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"It's so easy even a child can use it, and they do."


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 7:04 PM
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They don't do as good of a job though.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 7:07 PM
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BTW, reason #254 to piss on Biden's grave: the Cage character is based on Viktor Bout, who you arrested and convicted after decades of trying, and then traded back to Russia for a fucking basketball player.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 7:23 PM
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15: he grew up in the USSR; he will have had compulsory basic military training at a young age (12 or so).


Posted by: Ajay | Link to this comment | 08- 1-25 9:53 PM
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